Awesome Videos

Shot at a secret festival in Northern England, there’s actually a variety of amazing video projections above; our favorite parts are the Pac Man and Pinball sequences at 3:30.

Just Cause 2’s devs show off its vertical gameplay features above; with helicopters, parachutes and tall buildings aplenty, the game also doubles as a fun BASE jumping sim.

Available today, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 unloads the awesome in this Gameplay Montage; regardless of which side you pick in the superhero civil war, this game looks like a winner.

This Characters Trailer for Borderlands introduces us to the Hunter, Siren, Soldier and Brick classes, but also further sells us on the games’ gratuitous (yet offbeat) take on cellshading.

The jury’s still out on Lucidity, but it comes with an impressive pedigree: created by LucasArts, this gameplay trailer looks like a quaint mix of Lemmings and Little Red Riding Hood.

This Greed trailer for Dante’s Inferno sheds light on the tortured protagonist, Dante, who is arguably as twisted a character as the hellish environments he wages holy war upon.

CollegeHumor takes the Jobsian juggernaut to its logical extremes with The Apple “i”, a marriage of marketing, materials and geek machismo that firmly puts form over function.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2’s final trailer pulls no punches; it starts with a wicked comic book-style intro, but the meat of the video is copious amounts of gameplay that borders on gratuitous.

Bach’s appeal is timeless, but this Moebius Strip rendition of Canon 1 a 2 also makes his music endless: the song is played forwards and backwards simultaneously to surprising effect.

Based on a long-running character from pulp fiction, Solomon Kane is the first in a trilogy of adventure/fantasy movies about a cursed 16th century soldier and his battles against evil.

Beyond its storylines and gameplay, Final Fantasy is also known for its fantastic music; the video above is a sampling of songs played at the Square-Enix Premiere Party in Tokyo.

No, you’re not hallucinating spread guns and powerup blimps: Contra Rebirth sports 16-bit graphics and is the 12th game to bear the Contra name; it’s now available on WiiWare.

We’ve been blown away by The Secret Worlds’ gripping cinematic trailers, but nothing beats seeing actual gameplay: the first screenshots are now out and are gloriously hi-res.

This Ping Pong Fighter SF 2 parody proves several things: 1) Sonic Booms and Yoga Fires are no match for Hadoukens and Shoryukens, and 2) never bring a paddle to a nunchuck fight.

This Developer Walkthrough trailer for Singularity has us waxing nostalgic for our flux capacitors; it focuses on time travel and the interesting and often twisted ways it affects gameplay.

Likely an effort to assuage privacy concerns, Google Japan definitely has the market cornered on cute with this stop motion TV ad; it shows how Google Maps’ Streetview is really made.

Yes, yes, and yes: this Walkthrough Trailer for Assassin’s Creed II shows its badass appeal isn’t all smoke bombs and mirrors, with over six minutes of developer-guided gameplay.

Winner at numerous Australian film festivals, The Cat Piano is a stylish take on film noir by The People’s Republic of Animation with sensuous poetry and a graphic 2D look.

Let the Easy Mac and Cup O’ Noodles commence: CollegeHumor outdoes itself with The Freshman 15, an uncannily well-sung and directed parody of The Verve Pipe’s 90s hit single.

It looks like a cartoony version of Diablo, but there’s more to Torchlight; due out 10/27, it’ll be downloadable for $20, is designed to be modded and serves as a prelude to an MMORPG.

Dust off those controllers, because Rush Rush Rally Racing is a new game for the Dreamcast; it celebrates the 10th birthday of Sega’s venerable console and comes out 10/1/09.

The 1812 Overture is perfect fanfare for this Weapons Trailer for Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time; it shows off two new weapons and the Groovitron’s return. Thanks, Calvin!

Created by Cocoe Studios for Spanish band La Casa Azul, you don’t need to know Spanish for La Nueva Yma Sumac; it’s a catchy retro homage to video games and superheroes.