Awesome Games

There’s nothing conceptually new in this Skydiving & Combat trailer, but it shows off all things awesome about Just Cause 2: skydiving, parachuting, grappling, and kick-assing.

This Developers Diary for Darksiders dishes the dirt on the coolest horseman, War, along with the story: it’s literally a conspiracy of biblical proportions between Heaven and Hell.

America may have healthcare issues, but thank Miyamato that you’re not being pilled and probed by Nintendo: Dr. Mario with Lyrics is a NSFW musical skit about STDs in the ER.

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Lineage short film reaches its conclusion with Episodes 2 and 3, with Giovanni traveling first to Venice and then finally to Rome. Watch all three episodes here.

This Mechanics trailer gives us our first substantial look at Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight’s gameplay; let’s just say “Mechanics” stands more for Mechs than Mammoth Tanks.

This Dynasty video for Final Fantasy XIII is a franchise puff piece with a few bits of new gameplay, but the news at the end is worth the wait: the game arrives in North America 3/9/2010.

Literally blast your Bach with Symphony: available 2010, it takes your music collection and turns it into a 3D arcade shooter with destructible everything thanks to a physics/collision system.

We don’t play shuffleboard, but Hurricane’s upcoming Vertigo and Cobra tables make us want to start: part modern architecture, part play surface, both will be available in 2010.

TV spots for games are a dime a dozen, but we like the morbid creativity of this Eyes of Death ad for Assassin’s Creed II; it shows the lives of Ezio’s victims flashing before his eyes.

We’re already giving the crazy Battleship movie a wide berth, but this Wrong Target tee is a glimpse of how a three hour cruise can turn into a one-way trip 20,000 leagues under the sea.

Warning: we can’t embed this Experience trailer for Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles for safety reasons; just follow this link, but keep your limbs inside the browser at all times.

Its may be a prototype gameplay trailer, but Seven Haunted Seas is no scurvy dog: it’s an action RPG in development that resembles Monkey Island (gatling gun pirate captain FTW!).

This Grappler dev diary for Just Cause 2 has us hooked on its many (often sadistic) uses; tether enemies and vehicles (or enemies to vehicles) or juggle ’em in midair like a yo-yo.

Unleashing a holy can of whoop ass on blasphemers may sound fun, but this Heresy trailer for Dante’s Inferno shows that Dante must remain not only mindful but soulful of his actions.

We appreciate the efforts and sacrifices of our troops, but The Onion’s Modern Warfare 3 suggests a better name for the ultra-realistic military sim: the Call of Monotonous Duties.

This Alien Autopsy t-shirt depicts the aftermath of Earth’s battle against precisely five neatly organized rows of space invaders: dissecting our pixelated foes’ naughty bits and bytes.

Available 1/26/10: Mass Effect 2’s Collector Edition isn’t a Shepard slam dunk, but only $10 more gets you an art book, comic book, behind the scenes DVD, and in-game weapons and armor.

This Co-Op Moves trailer for Army of Two: The 40th Day finally dishes the dirt on its strongest feature; it shows off six tactics, including tag/snipe, riot shield, and mock surrenders.

Created by unmanned vehicle researchers, Roomba Pac-Man eats ghosts instead of dustballs; it uses cameras, Wi-Fi, and localization sensors–all controlled by joystick, of course.

We liked the first multiplayer video for Battlefield: Bad Company 2, but Africa Harbour blows us away: it’s a hard hitting video with fast cuts and realistic action from multiple vantage points.

Our favorite turian returns with this Garrus trailer for Mass Effect 2; roughly half of it is cinematic dialog, but the payoff comes swiftly with our first substantive peek at combat gameplay.

If you’re short on space but big on parties, this 7-in-1 Rotating Game Table saves the day (and space); you’ll get ping-pong, chess, checkers, backgammon, pool, foosball, and air hockey.

This Mayhem trailer for Darksiders doesn’t reveal anything new, but we like its angsty, vengeance-be-mine style; the protagonist seems hell-bent on sending everyone to hell.