Awesome Games

Ah, Mass Effect 2, you manage to squeeze in one more trailer for 1/27 or 1/28, but at least it’s a badass one: bounty hunter and merc Zaeed Massani is a free, zero-day DLC.

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Timeline Series continues after a long pause, but this sixth episode was worth the wait: a massive Sith onslaught sends the Republic reeling on all fronts.

Rico sweetens the pot with a free DLC for those who preorder Just Cause 2; it includes a Chaos parachute, Chevalier Classic car, assault rifle, Rico’s signature gun, and hovercraft.

A follow-up to the teaser, this Shipyard trailer gives us our first continuous look at Split/Second’s gameplay; over a minute long, it feels like an amped-up version of Burnout’s crash mode.

Sorry, Ash, you’re not the first to try and catch ’em all, and you won’t be the last: Squirtle and gang go really old school with this collection of Pokemon as traditional Japanese art.

Take a trip down acid-spit-covered memory lane with this Heritage Developer Diary for Aliens vs. Predator; it discusses how the new game expands on the original 1999 classic.

It looks purely visual, but it’s what’s beneath the waves that counts in this Silent Hunter 5 trailer; campaigns are dynamically driven by player decisions with 160 ports and 10,500 ships.

Bullseye is just a training course and not the actual game, but it’s a bullseye in terms of proving that Interstellar Marines is more than vaporware; play it for free in your browser here.

Because nothing beats skydiving through a puzzle while listening to classical music: Gordon Luk’s Skybox is a simple, yet addictive 3D action puzzler game for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

Because a big, bad weapon requires big, slightly NSFW badasses: set to Queens of the Stone Age, this Single Player trailer for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is truly bad to the bone.

UK indie dev Mode 7’s Frozen Synapse boils down the tactical game to its bare (but beautiful) essentials in the trailer above; it’s of course turn-based, but lets you try out test moves.

This Rock, Paper, Scissors Tee is no ordinary shirt: it’s part of an augmented reality game where a hand emerges from your tee to challenge you; no tee? Get a printable version here.

NIER gets a second trailer that only barely teases the story, but it’s worth the somewhat cringe-inducing voiceover with more glimpses at the gameplay and a few short but epic visuals.

Release date and pricing details are TBA, but these screen shots for Final Fantasy I and II are cause enough for celebration: both games are coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Get ready to kick some Collector ass through the Omega-4 mass relay 1/26/10: celebrate Mass Effect 2’s arrival next week with this absolutely epic launch trailer. Thanks, IceBone!

Supreme Commander 2 shows off its gameplay with two Battle trailers (1, 2), but most significant is that it now has (some) personality: they’ve added characters and dialog a-la Starcraft.

Already a best seller in Japan, Decimation X is now available on XBLA; essentially space invaders on steroids, the 2D shooter offers custom soundtracks and 2-4 player co-op modes.

Punk Drunkers and DSSF team up for this old-school Players Only Space Invaders jacket; the embroidered art, coin slot zipper, and pi score = retro-tastic. Thanks, Devon!

Upcoming FPS Brink gets a Character Customization trailer that shows how you can tweak your avatar, from archetype and build to face overlay and clothing; car tire armor for us, please.

This N7 Dev Diary for Mass Effect 2 shows how you can make Shepard a badass (or just an ass), but at the heart of it are the N7 missions: these optional quests are found by exploring planets.

Part of the God of War III: Ultimate Edition, the Unearthing the Legend documentary gets teased; it reveals the origins of Kratos and is hosted by Mr. Robocop himself (aka Peter Weller).

We’ve seen a lot of Salem & Rios trailers, but the duo goes on one last World Tour as Army of Two: The 40th Day hits store shelves; the live action/CG trailer is set to music by Second Sex.

You won’t be rolling the dice with Zontik’s Backgammon Precision Dice; high-end and indestructible, they sport rounded corners and are painted by hand with a hypodermic needle.