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If the teaser merely reminded you that the game existed, this trailer may make you pre-order the game. There’s realistic NPC movement, great lighting and a new way to help downed teammates.

Founder Tomonobu Itagaki may have left Team Ninja, but that doesn’t mean we’re not still going to be first in line to buy Ninja Gaiden 3 when it hits PS3 and Xbox 360 sometime in 2012.

LittleBigPlanet 2 gamer Foggles created an awesome game within another awesome game – a playable stage that is an accurate remake of Plants vs. Zombies, down to the music and user interface.

After firing up the hype machine with the teaser, Bethesda finally throws Elder Scrolls fans another bone, and my is it a tasty one, showing awesome in-game graphics. Be sure to watch it in HD.

We’re not sure if the younger ones will like it, but we’re totally down with it. Nestalgia is an MMORPG coated with the old school RPG flavor, from the graphics and the music to the battle system.

We’ve seen a few button add-ons for playing games on touchscreen devices, but the Classics could be the best yet, because they can be used in a variety of button configurations.

It’s a total tease, but this short clip gives us our first look at in-game footage – and it looks nothing short of spectacular. We’ll have to wait until the Fall to play, but we’re sure we’ll get more footage soon.

We’ve featured both traditional and modern takes on the arcade table, but if you’re looking for something edgier, check out the Stealth Arcade Table. Comes preloaded with 60 classic games.

2 Player Productions is making a documentary of Minecraft, and they’ve shared the first 20 minutes of the video. You can donate to their Kickstarter fund to help them finish it. Bonuses await donors.

Mike Cooper’s elaborate birthday cake for his son this year was a functioning Angry Birds piece, complete with working catapult and iced birds for ammunition. Truly special. (Thanks Brandon!)

Design student Andrew Clifford Capener has created the A-1 Scrabble Designer Edition, which would come with customized typography tiles, a walnut scrabble board and cork lined exterior box.

The G155 is a “mobile gaming environment” – a handy way of carrying your Xbox 360 or PS3 Slim, including its controllers and cables. Best of all, it has a built-in 15.5″ LED HD monitor. Demo here.

Oh, those pigs are really in trouble now. Shouldn’t have stolen those eggs. They should consider growing plants around their fortress to fend off these monsters. Art by Tomasz Kaczkowski.

Activision shuttered Bizarre Creations, the guys behind Project Gotham Racing, Geometry Wars, and the recent James Bond: Blood Stone. Say goodbye with this loving, but brief tribute.

You may never get a chance to drive Pagani’s 700hp supercar in real life, but thanks to the guys at EA, you’ll be able to take it for a spin at speeds up to 230mph in the upcoming SHIFT 2 Unleashed.

Short-ranged, inaccurate, satisfyingly loud and very powerful. What action game would be complete without the trusty shotgun? Here’s a montage of its various video game incarnations.

Shoot Many Robots is Demiurge Studios’ humorous take on the side-scrolling shooter, with support for up to four players in co-op mode. It will be released as a digital download later this year.

YouTube user Janprotokovski edited the Dead Island teaser to show the events in chronological order. There are actually several of these floating around the net, but this is one of the better edits.

Get up close and personal with zombies in Dead Island, a cool looking FPS that puts you on a chaotic island to fight for survival using anything you can find as a weapon. (Thanks everyone!)

We’ve seen all the teasers, we’ve played the multiplayer demo, now we get to learn more about the story that leads up to the dramatic New York setting in EA’s explosive big-budget FPS.

Aperture Labs’ Romance Safety Compliance Guide will tell you about popular gifts for loved ones, and their (fictional) downsides. Guess what the recommended gift is. No, it’s not cake.

It’s not every day that we see a fan-made commercial, but if they’re all as good as Ben McCambridge’s work, we say keep ’em coming. We doubt it’ll fly with parents though.

See those tiny specks? Missiles. See that blue dot in the middle? You. This HD version of the classic shooter hits Xbox 360 this Spring with more missiles than anyone should ever have to fend off.