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This latest “Combat Chain” trailer for Tom Clancy’s WW3 RTS, End War, briefs players on various unit classes. Not much gameplay, but you won’t have to wait long: it’s coming 11/4.

Pulled once by Apple, iPhone app Phonesaber is now back and fully legal. Renamed Lightsaber Unleashed, it’s being offered for free to promote The Force Unleashed.

Korg’s DS-10 transforms your Nintendo DS into a virtual MS-10 synthesizer, with a six track / 16-step sequencer, as well as note entry via touch screen, keyboard or matrix screen.

After a cryptic countdown, Bungie revealed the teaser above for Halo 3: Keep It Clean; looming over a futuristic city suffering a disaster, it’s an expansion pack for Halo’s campaign mode.

Resistance 2 has a slew of new gameplay videos out; our favorite one has the player trying to take out a massive Chimera Goliath. Be sure to stop by Joystiq to see the rest of them!

Coming out of USC’s Interactive Media unit, The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom is like Braid on crack. If you’ve ever wanted to literally kick your own ass, you can do it here.

This is not your standard YouTube video: this ad for Wario Land: Shake It is pure genius. We’ll leave out the details for you, but let’s just say your GUI elements don’t stand a chance.

We were never big fans of Tron, but indie-developed Tank Universal gives those neon polygons a nice coat of glow paint with particle effects and 20 levels of tank-on-tank combat.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 has launched, and will finally utilize your video card’s GPU. It will also include Flash SWF support, a cleaner, common interface and 64-bit for Windows users.

Fracture’s deformable terrain makes us wonder if it’s a one trick pony, but this gameplay demo shows off some of the coolest weapons we’ve seen since Half Life 2’s Gravity Gun.

This is a free flash port of Lock’s Quest; defend your base against increasingly difficult waves of Clockwork baddies, all the while upgrading and repairing to stay alive. Thanks, Blake!

We frankly have no idea what they’re saying or what the heck they’re wearing, but Battle Fantasia’s superpowers and combos bring back fond memories of days spent in arcades.

Mallet Mania is a simple golf/putting game which is perhaps why it’s so addictive; sharp graphics reminiscent of Q*Bert and innovative levels make this a great time waster at work.

Goo is like Katamari in 2D with better graphics; although more a tech demo than a game, it’s pretty fun. It recently won Best Threaded Game at the Intel Game Demo Contest.

Warning: you may waste an incessant amount of time on Blast Passage. This Flash freebie remixes Bomberman and Gauntlet; even multiplayer is old school: four players, one keyboard.

Just when we didn’t think Red Alert 3 could get any campier, they release this remix trailer, with George Takei saying “‘All your base…” and Jenny McCarthy making very suggestive noises.

Portal: Prelude is an unofficial prequel to Portal, leading up to the creation of GlaDOS with 8 chapters and 48 challenges. It’s set to be released later this month; until then, sing a song.

Feist is a quirky little Mac-only jumping game, developed with the Unity engine by Florian Faller and Adrian Stutz. We’ve given it a spin and find it to be simple yet strangely hypnotic.

PS3 owners: check out Life with Playstation, available now; it runs in parallel with Folding@home, delivers Google News and weather updates from over 60 cities, all for free.

As if the last GameStop trailer wasn’t enough, this trailer for Gears of War 2 goes into details about the new weapons and execution animations. About the latter: freakin’ awesome.

Those of us old enough to remember the Atari 2600 will love these Atari Modern Classics pictures from The -Minus World; they’re a wonderful take on retro package design.

Stormrise (Xbox360, PS3) is a difficult game to peg, as it’s an RTS with a first person viewpoint. The latest trailer above showcases its squad-based combat; damn do we love snipers.

In an age of multimillion-dollar budgets, Bob’s Game stands out: this DS game was solely created by Robert Pelloni over the course of five years, pouring over 15,000 hours into it.