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While it doesn’t show us everything we want to see, this Mass Effect 2 Prelude in advance of E3 gives away just enough with an emphasis on intense combat and a darker storyline.

Gift cards are the ultimate in generic gifts, but this Gift Card Puzzle Vault ensures your friends have to earn it; the ball bearing maze must be solved in order to access the goodies inside.

Get those credit cards out 5/19, because this launch trailer should put those of you on the fence about Bionic Commando over the edge with awesome music and a swinging montage.

Capcom drops an early Xmas gift with Encyclopedia Gigantica, a must for Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite players; it’s unfinished but will fill up before the game’s June release.

This How the West Was Won video for Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is how trailers should be done: it starts off with cutscenes and finishes with plenty of gunslingin’ in-game action.

Get ready to wet yourself with this 9 minute Hunting the Big Sister trailer; it’s narrated by BioShock 2’s Creative Director and talks about Little Sister adoption and long walks in the ocean.

Get a peek at Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (game) roster above with both in-game and standalone renders; we’re digging camo-jet Breakaway and the hulking Long Haul.

The Retro Mini is a slightly cheaper version of the FC Mobile II with a smaller 2.4″ screen; it’s a portable console that reads NES cartridges and sports built-in speakers and TV-out.

This action-packed multiplayer debut trailer for the Ghostbusters game shows there’s nothing like catching ghosts with a bunch of friends; just be sure you don’t cross those streams!

Check out this excellent preview video for inFAMOUS; it gives some background on your character (he’s a bike messenger) as well as the implications of good/bad moral choices.

Will/AyesDyef has a brilliant Team Fortress 2 / N64 Super Smash Bros. mashup that matches shot-for-shot the intro of the latter, albeit using the zany characters of the former.

This Forgotten Secret trailer for White Knight Chronicles starts off with butterflies and ballroom dancing; in other words, it’s ripe for all the slick sword-swinging mayhem afterwards.

At $200, you could get a real guitar in place of Logitech’s new Wireless Guitar; still, for hardcore Rock Band/Guitar Hero players, you can’t beat the $50 price drop over the previous edition.

Basically a 21st century version of Running Man, Gamer is a near future film about gamers who control death row inmates in combat; cheesy or cult classic? We’ll find out 9/4.

Forever vaporware due to 3D Realms’ closure, Duke Nukem Forever goes out with one last bang in this video; it’s unfinished work, but still pretty sweet. Note: NSFW nudity at 0:49.

Freelance artist Steven Lefcourt’s 8-Bit Fatalities desanitizes some of our favorite games and gives them a bloody dose of reality; think Animal Planet meets Mortal Kombat.

Alright, so nobody really loves traffic, but I Love Traffic gives us a peek into the harried lives of traffic lights; it starts off easy but quickly turns frenetic, making accidents a near inevitability.

Yes, that’s a question mark in our title: we really doubt this video is in-game footage for Beyond Good & Evil 2, but even if it’s pre-rendered, it puts Mirror’s Edge’s parkour to shame.

Just in time for their 5/13 release date, this launch trailer for Battlestations: Pacific is basically war porn: it’s filled with dizzyingly fast edits plus bullets and explosions galore.

Ambitious games like Darkest of Days are usually doomed to failure, but the alternate history buff in us can’t resist the time-traveling plot that includes Mt. Vesuvius, the Civil War and more.

Most game adaptations of movies are poor, but this Transformers: RotF trailer is actually pretty decent; if they transform like that in-game, we’re sold. PS: watch it all the way through!

This Pac-Man Sour Set combines two geek loves with pellet- and ghost-shaped sour candies; we particularly like the Pac-Man tin, which dispenses pellets like an 8-bit pharmacist.

We’re not Wild West fans, but Red Dead Redemption has several things going for it: it’s by Rockstar, it’ll be open-world, and the trailer shows off graphics that would make a cowboy weep.