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Lost Planet 2 gets even more epic than it already is with a lengthy 4 minute Symphony of Battle trailer; set to theatrical music, it mixes cinematics and gameplay while dishing out features.

Geralt isn’t the only thing looking pretty in this debut trailer for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings; CD Projekt RED STUDIO’s action RPG has a release date tentatively set for Q1 2011.

As much as gamers would like to believe they’re saving the world, the truth is they’re just a bunch of self-centered, gramma stealing hoodlums; in short, RPG Heroes Are Jerks.

Choose between getting eaten by the fail whale or flocks of angry tweeting birds with Jonah Peretti’s Choose Your Own Adventure; it’s powered completely by Twitter and Bit.ly links.

This trailer for Alexander Shen’s Cadet 227 isn’t like anything we’ve seen (or heard) before: it’s a game for the visually impaired where you’ll rely solely on sound, with no visuals at all.

NSFW language: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days gets an 8/24/10 release date while making an unsurprisingly messy entrance to the Far East in the Welcome to Shanghai trailer above.

Samurai cowboys out for vengeance need look no further than this Enemies trailer for Red Steel 2; it’s packed with psychopaths, swordslingers, butchers, warlords, and of course, ninjas.

Now available: Dragon Age: Origins: Awakening gets a relatively short but sweet launch trailer; the expansion raises the level cap and also includes new spells, items, and abilities.

Yankees Pitcher CC Sabathia takes time out of his not-too-busy schedule for a very important PSA on grenade spamming while also pitching Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Thanks, everyone!

SCEA’s Scott Rohde discusses the PlayStation Move and takes a swipe at the Wii; he not only talks about SOCOM 4 and LBP but a PS3 uber-bundle and two-controller configurations.

Available 3/23/10: Just Cause 2’s launch trailer doesn’t reveal anything new, but commandeering a fighter jet from a helicopter and crashing it into an oil derrick never gets old.

Now available: Kratos serves Mt. Olympus a wrathful eviction notice in this Launch Trailer for God of War III; it runs less than two minutes but packs in much of the game’s first 30 minutes.

The latest preview for ATLUS’ PS3 pixel game 3D Dot Game Heroes. Best part: “He builds giant, evil stone golems with lasers… because it’s fun to blow them up.”

This Behind the Scenes trailer for Transformers: WfC gets up close and personal with High Moon Studios, but the real treat is behind the devs: the animations are seriously jaw-dropping.

Available today (3/16/10): Metro 2033 gets a suitably post-apocalyptic launch trailer that mixes cinematics and gameplay; yes, the soundtrack is from 28 Weeks Later, and yes, it’s bad-ass.

It’s a bat-astrophe that Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition isn’t available stateside; it uses TriOviz’s 2D-to-3D tech and includes Batman and Joker-themed 3D glasses.

If you don’t know your chin curtains from your copstash standards, learn to be a proper mustachio’d gent with BeardMe: the iPhone app will instantly man-up your photos with facial hair.

Never be without a Rock, Paper, Scissors sparring buddy again with Steve Hoefer’s Playing Glove: this arduino gadget will not only play against you, but learns from your moves.

We’re up to our Dalish ears in Dragon Age: Awakening videos, but this Justice trailer introduces a Fade entity trapped in a dead Grey Warden’s body; translation: zombie FTW!

There are clear shades of moral grey in this Tier One trailer for Medal of Honor, which talks about doing what is necessary and the application of violence; Jack Bauer would be proud.

UNiGiNE isn’t a game per se so much as it is a game engine, but we couldn’t take our eyes off this gorgeous Heaven Map trailer; the middleware currently has 14 game licensees.

Even with relatively poor quality video, this Tech Trailer for Crysis 2 has us happier than a fully-charged Nano Suit with procedural destruction, dynamic cover, physics, and more.

It may not burst into flames when used, but at least it’s not embedded into your arms, either: this 20″ God of War Chaos Sword is a zinc-aluminum cast replica with hard-cast handle.