Awesome Action

Violence is never the answer, but filmmakers sure know how to make it look purty. Patrick Péris wonderfully builds up the tension and lets the blood, bullets and bombs fly in this 49-film mashup.

We’ve seen a Starhawk skirmish in space. Here’s a ground battle showcasing real-time strategy blended with third-person action. Plus, when was the last time you saw a fighter clad in plaid?

BioWare sat down with G4 to discuss the new roleplaying elements in Mass Effect 3. Players will not only be able to customize their weapons with mods but their class as well via binary skill trees.

Here are Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – a war hero, a sharpshooter, two geniuses and a god. Also someone with a pistol. Seriously Black Widow, you better have special bullets in that gun of yours.

We’ve found out a bit about the plot and the characters of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, now it’s time for some gameplay. Have a look at some of the game’s gory combat animations.

While it still tells us nothing about the plot, the CG visuals in this gladiatorial fight between John Carter and some nasty, furry creatures give us something fun to watch while we chew on our popcorn.

Perseus runs from an ogre, meteors turn into Siamese twin soldiers and Hades finds time to be dramatic in the midst of destruction in the latest trailer for Wrath of the Titans.

The newest trailer for the The Hunger Games reveals more about the hero for those who have not read the books: a young woman who will do everything she can for the people she loves.

BioWare recently released a batch of trailers for Mass Effect 3, including this gem that features the other hero of the trilogy – the lady Shepard. The Reapers are here? Good. Our bodies are ready.

Return to the wonderfully animated, yet gruesome world of Shank. The 2D brawler returns with the same seamless weapon combos you know and love, more action and online survival multiplayer.

Brace yourselves for cheesy humor, astronauts going up against space Nazis and bad puns in the latest trailer for Iron Sky. Those poor Moon-raised kids are going to be destroyed by Earth’s gravity.

Jeremy Renner plays Aaron Cross, a CIA operative trained in the same manner as titular character Jason Bourne. While not based on the Bourne books, it is directly related to the preceding films.

(Gore) A band of train robbers try to wrest control of a town from a ruthless crime lord while a con artist betrays both sides for his own gain. Looks like there are no heroes in Let the Bullets Fly.

For those who missed it, here’s the trailer for The Avengers that aired during the Super Bowl. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes not only includes a patriot, there’s also a giant in its roster.

Nicolas Winding Refn’s quiet masterpiece in HD. We’re not too keen on the default box cover, but the awesome scorpion variant is sold out, so we’ll settle for this free one made by James White.

Stephen Dorff plays a secret service agent who finds himself locked inside a car trunk as terrorists try to pry secrets from him in various nasty ways. Think Buried, but with way more action.

Play as a World War II Allied sniper dropped behind enemy lines in Sniper Elite V2. The game trades fast-paced action common in most shooters for a more tactical and stealthy approach.

Milla’s back in Resident Evil: Retribution, the 5th installment of the series; here, Alice bangs it out with a resistance movement in the continuing battle against the Umbrella Corporation and the undead.

Joe Madureira and his crew at Vigil Games talk about Death, the protagonist of Darksiders II – his weapons, his battle style and his personality, which is basically a list of positive adjectives.

Corridor Digital takes an arrow to the knee for us with their Skyrim send-up, which brings the powered-up Unrelenting Force shout out of the video game world and into the urban jungle.

The survival series seems more action-packed than ever. The game will have three main story branches – one each for vets Chris Redfield and Leon Kennedy and one for a new character.

An Oscar hopeful for Best Foreign Language Film, about a battle right before the ceasefire shortly before the end of the Korean War with the threat of betrayal looming on the South Korean side.

After showing us the lethal potential of defibrillators, Corridor Digital brings another BF3 idiosyncrasy to the real world – the Repair Tool, which ironically can also be used to destroy.

(NSFW: Language) A man convicted of espionage is offered freedom if he rescues the president’s daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates in MS ONE Maximum Security.

Liam Hemsworth and Yu Nan join the ass-kicking ensemble in Simon West’s The Expendables 2; hired for a simple job, things go awry and the team goes haywire for payback. (Thanks Edward!)

Inspiration can come from anywhere, but you don’t necessarily have to admit where it came from. Otherwise, this not-Transformers has enough eye candy to be a good renter or Netflix filler.