Awesome Games

The Company of Myself is a platform puzzler in the vein of Braid and Winterbottom that mixes time travel and cloning; we just can’t decide if it’s singly multiplayer or multiply single player.

This Alien vs. Predator multiplayer trailer is literally gut-wrenching; gameplay includes sneaking up on marines and biting them through the head, predator hunt, and species death match.

Brock Davis’ Arcade Expressionism pieces swap pixels for paint brushes with acrylic versions of Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, and Missile Command; also check out his Squares series.

This dev diary for Avatar gives us hope for the movie’s game tie-in; the human and Na’vi sides offer different experiences, with bullets and mechs vs. neurotoxin arrows and beasts.

Made for beta testers, R.U.S.E. Senior Producer Mathieu Girard gives us a gameplay low-down with How to Play R.U.S.E.; it covers economics, buildings, logistics, and of course, ruses.

Mass Effect 2’s Adepts get a mind-bending, matter-rearranging upgrade in this class trailer; new abilities including angling and curving shots around corners, plus a shockwave power.

EVE’s 12th free expansion, Dominion, gets an epic, nationalistic trailer; out 12/1/09, it provides more tactical gameplay, new doomsday devices, and improved territory control.

Nintendo Monopoly is worth it just for the player tokens (Koopa Shells FTW!); it also swaps characters for properties (Mario for Boardwalk) and includes 60 minute speed play rules.

Available 11/27/09: The Fort is Uncharted 2’s first DLC and totally free; based on The Fortress chapter in Drake’s Fortune, this multiplayer map oozes awesome in the trailer above.

PVP IRL with these WoW Prop Replicas, which include Horde and Alliance Flags, Tabards, and a Frostmourne Sword; would-be warriors look elsewhere: the latter is made out of latex.

Square Enix drops one last trailer for Final Fantasy XIII before its Asia launch 12/17; 90% cinematic and filled with heartfelt (but Japanese) dialog, it’s still a feast for the eyes.

Globe and Namco Bandai team up to promote the release of Splatterhouse on PS3/Xbox 360 Q3 2010; these Superfly kicks sport an appropriately red and black splattered colorway.

As if Bayonetta weren’t well-armed enough with guns on her feet, this Transformations trailer puts prey out to pasture with her ability to turn into a panther, bird, butterfly, or a cloud of bats.

Even a heavily-armed DC is no match for the undead hordes in this Zombie Outbreak Sim; this Google Maps mash-up lets you tweak everything from zombie speed to infection time.

Swapping a mustache for a mask, this trailer for Borderland’s Zombie DLC intros Dr. Ned with a Phantom of the Opera-ish monologue and fly-over of the add-on’s various spooky locales.

It’s coin-op/cartridge goodness, minus the coins or cartridges; Atari Arcade lets you play six classic games for free, including Asteroids, Adventure, Battlezone, and Lunar Lander.

Aion taketh, but Aion also giveth: after the recent mass bannings, this 9 minute Vision trailer teases a massive makeover with brighter graphics, houses, mounts, swimming, and more.

In dark contrast to the original hoodie, Enclothe’s Marioflage 1-2 Hoodie is a dungeon shawl with 8-bit touches everywhere; it sports a mushroom zipper and a WarpZone iPod pocket.

Major spoilers: Modern Warfare 2 in 60 seconds is exactly that, with a rapid-fire plot salvo that takes you through the entire campaign; full script under More Info on the YouTube page.

You’ll need to hit 88 MPH and FPS to actually go back to the future, but we promise the effects in this DeLorean mod for Crysis/Crysis Wars will leave you like a slack-jawed Doc Brown.

This Space Exploration trailer for Star Trek: Online needs a name change; there’s plenty of gorgeous space porn, but exploration? Only if Lewis & Clark were armed with phasers.

It’s not the first time we’ve seen Harrison Krix’s Big Daddy Costume, but these photos at the Georgia Aquarium are almost a perfect rendition of Bioshock–especially with HDR editing.

This Kickin’ Names trailer is brutally honest: yes, Serious Sam HD is the same bleepin’ game as the first one, but we’re looking forward to the revamped HD graphics 12/1.