Awesome Games

Sure, the WWE and UFC already offer fighting games, but 505 Games and Kung Fu Factory’s unlicensed fighter offers a gritty, blood-spewing, bone-breaking take on MMA-style video games.

Spurred by the positive response to his Team Fortress 2 entry in Kotaku’s Tronify Everything contest, Chandan Singh decided to take it to the next level and made player skins for the game.

Chris Marion mapped five fire poofers to the keys of a Guitar Hero controller. The result is just like the game, except instead of colored notes, huge pillars of fire rise up in sync with the music.

We’ve thrown all our Sudoku puzzles out of sheer frustration. Too bad we didn’t have this Google tech in our hands. It can grab an image of a puzzle and solve it faster than a human Sudoku champ.

Dead or Alive: Dimensions continues the series’ penchant for multi-level stages and tag team fights. The game will also allow you to pull off moves just by tapping a move’s name from a command list.

If you missed the original BG&E on last-gen consoles, you’ll be happy to know that Ubisoft’s artful action-adventure game is being remastered in high-def for today’s consoles.

YouTube user NuubCast commentates on StarCraft II matches, but this time he has his 4 year old daughter as co-commentator. Lower the volume; the kid’s voice is as loud as it is cute.

Despite the overly simplified ragdoll style of Toribash, it’s an incredibly deep fighting game, which lets you create your own insane martial arts moves on PC, Mac or Linux. Best part, it’s free.

A look at the fighters’ intro in Fight Night Champions, featuring Mosley and Pacquiao, who will be going head-to-head for real this May. The commentary is good, but where’s Michael Buffer?

YouTube user jim784m recreated several Street Fighter characters in the Xbox version of WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011. Each fighter has four costumes and appropriate wrestling moves.

We’ve seen LittleBigPlanet emulate other video games, but how about an operating system? No problem. Four skilled LBP 2 Beta users created Windows LBP, a detailed homage to Windows XP.

Remember Chernobyl Tetris? How about Rain Man’s Impossible Mini-Games, or The Wonder Years Street Fight? Dan Meth’s fictional games are a hoot for anyone who grew up during the 1980s.

Featuring beautifully illustrated environments, this new 2D side-scroller is headed to Xbox 360 and PC. IndieGames named it one of the top 10 to watch in 2011, and from the looks of it, we agree.

The latest in the Uncharted series is looking even more stellar than the award winning Among Thieves. Here’s 5 minutes of glorious, fiery gameplay footage from the guys at Naughty Dog.

We get to see just a little more of the characters and exotic locales coming to the long-awaited sequel to the classic tag-team brawler. Is it just us, or did Heihachi’s stylist use a Wooly Willy game?

Pay what you want and get five awesome games worth $85. They’ll work on Windows, Mac and Linux, and are DRM-free. Part of the proceeds go to charity. Pay at least $7.77 to get more games!

It’s a shame the game wasn’t released in time for the holidays, but we’ll just have to settle for the latest trailer of Marvel vs. Capcom 3, featuring all the characters that have been revealed so far.

A combination of Jeopardy! and a dictionary. The definition of a word along with its first letter is given; typing the correct answer extends the time. One of the more practical timewasters we’ve seen.

We’re not sure if these hoodies are officially from BAPE and Nintendo, but either way they’re really cool. Mario’s head turns into a mask when you zip it up. Only available in L, XL and XXL sizes.

At last, our daydream of TPIR and booze come together in Drinko. This game includes 6 shot glasses, chips, playing board and instructions, but we don’t think you’ll need them. (Thanks Danna!)

Think you can do better than Ken Block? You can try in DiRT 3. Practice your tight turns, daring leaps and slides without thinking of the cost of wrecked tires in the new Gymkhana Mode.

Insomniac teases us with yet another live-action trailer for the upcoming sequel to their kick-ass shooter series. This time we get just a bit of actual gameplay footage, and a release date: 9/6/2011.

If you have any hopes of surviving the deadly invasion in Crysis 2, you’ll need to strap yourself into the Nano Suit, which provides defense, offense, and as the trailer says – plenty of options.