Awesome Videos

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.

We expect to get tired of Uncharted 2 gameplay footage at some point, but not today: this Train Trailer may be “on rails” but is beautifully destructive, high-speed poetry in motion.

We apologize in advance to the Motor City, but after an ugly, winless 2008 season, The Onion’s proposal for NFL Players to Mentor Detroit Lions may be just what Jim Schwartz needs.

Sure, it’s staged, but this video of four-time stunt-riding World Champion Chris Pfeiffer taking on the BMW HQ in Munich on an F800R is a treat for freestyle motorcycle stunt fans.

Available on the Wii 10/13, this Story Trailer for A Boy and His Blob has us excited both for the Miyazaki-like animations and the return of an NES classic which was released in 1989.

With a believable Tatooine down to the moisture vaporators, Galactic Warfare is a Star Wars-themed total conversion of Call of Duty 4 that swaps Spetznaz for Storm Troopers.

With the 6th season due out 9/17/09, watch the first 100 episodes and get caught up with The Office: Seasons 1-5; running 2,040 minutes, it includes deleted scenes, gag reels and more.

The Frankencamera is an open-source camera made by Stanford scientists; it’ll let you tweak focus, exposure and more on a software level while lenses and sensors can be swapped out.

This campy gameplay trailer for No More Heroes 2 shows off news ways to slice-up enemies, beam katana dual-wielding, 8-bit jobs and improved AI; the game is due out 1/2010.

Not everyone has Labor Day weekend off; Darth’s black sheep brother Chad Vader spends it cleaning the toilet (gloves over gloves FTW!) and battling a family of angry possums.

Just like the debut trailer, there’s no gameplay in this Demon Trailer for The Secret World, but what we do see is awesome: yet another damsel who dishes out the hurt on demons.

Setting political allegiances (or the lack thereof) aside, Senator Al Franken draws the US map from memory at the Minnesota State Fair; this should be required viewing for all politicians.

Ken Block racing Rob Dyrdek is special enough, but Gymkhana 2.1 is a must-watch with a Subaru WRX STI taking on a replica miniature shifter car; even better: synchronized drifting.

Set in Rapture before the fall, Bioshock 2’s Multiplayer mode gets an official debut trailer; just like single player, you’ll get to play Big Daddy when the game comes out early 2010.

While it’s not the first time Halo has used live actors, this Live-Action trailer for Halo: ODST kicks serious ass and only makes us more despondent over the limbo status of the Halo movie.

This Visions of Venice trailer for Assassin’s Creed II makes Ezio look like the ultimate badass: the dude dual-wields weapons, leaps from tall buildings and hang glides Da Vinci style.