Awesome Leisure

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.

Make your day with the Dirty Harry Collection (Blu-ray/DVD), due out 2/16/2010; it’s cheaper than the Ultimate Collection by leaving out extras, but still includes all five films.

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.

Budda and Mark Nason team up for the MN-100, a 100 watt three-channel tube guitar amplifier head wrapped in Nason’s leather; also: the MN-412, a similarly wrapped 4×12 cabinet.

Sure, Flexy may be an uglier version of the Slinky, but it’s made from 100% recycled cardboard; even better: it not only doubles as a rolodex but as a Mortal Kombat weapon.

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.

Pumzi is a 21 minute Kenyan sci-fi short film that is as sexy as it is sophisticated; it’s directed by Kenyan Wanuri Kahiu and funded by a producer of Alive in Joburg (District 9’s predecessor).

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.

Get a sneak peak at season 1 of Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica in the TV trailer above; the season starts 1/29/2010, but watch the entire two-part pilot at SyFy for free here.

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.

Brad Pitt blitzkriegs into stores 2Q 2010 with this 1:6 Lt. Aldo Raine figure; incredibly lifelike down to the wrinkles and facial hair, it includes a stand with Inglourious Basterds logo.

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.

The last thing R/C enthusiasts need is an arms race, but the Quanum Bomb System is sure to be a blast; it drops a nylon bomb that can be filled with powder for explosive effect.

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.

European audiences watched it in 2008, but The Red Baron finally makes it over the pond to US theaters in 2010; the film dramatizes the life of WWI ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen.

Get a sneak peek at Iron Man 2 courtesy Minimates’ lineup above; included are Assault Drones (one for each branch of the US military), Justin Hammer, the Hammer Drone, and War Machine.

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.

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.

MTV’s latest abomination is a surprisingly good fit for our favorite Italian plumbers: Jersey Shore: Super Mario Bros. is a sordid tale of family dysfunction, overalls, and blue shells.

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.