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Coming soon to XBLA, Worms 2: Armageddon is packed with features worthy of the franchise: gorgeous new vertical levels and more weapons than you can shake a worm at.

Still trying to get that beach body? Men’s Health Workouts just might do the trick: it’s an iPhone app with 18 workouts and 125 exercises, with step-by-step instructions and photos.

Developed by Georgia Tech’s Augmented Environments Lab, ARhrrrr! is a shooter with a twist: it uses a Tegra devkit as a gun to take out zombies shambling about a 3D city.

If you’ve ever despaired over spotty Wi-Fi, Ekahu HeatMapper is a godsend: it’s a free PC app that lets you create a heatmap of the strength of your wireless signal around your home.

Pinch yourself, Layar is real and now available for Android (iPhone 3GS soon); it uses your phone’s camera, GPS and compass to ID surroundings as an augmented reality browser.

Kind of like Pachinko in space (think pinball), Star Beacons tasks you with firing a series of balls down a gauntlet of obstacles; the teleport in the bottom “recycles” the ball.

Heralded as a service that will reinvent the web, Opera Unite is a cloud-based app that syncs files, music, photos, and chat, effectively turning your computer into a client and server.

If you can’t wait for Project Natal, this theremin-controlled version of Super Mario Bros. can be controlled by 1 or 2 people–ensuring that you and a friend can look like total spazzes.

This Driver Profile trailer for Need for Speed SHIFT plays like a high octane movie trailer; it repeatedly bashes you over the head with badges you can earn, yet hurts so good.

Get 7 of your friends or randomly join a game for instant MarioKart-style racing with HoverKart, which includes 20 tracks; note: if you FAIL at driving like we do, try out the tutorial first.

Available 6/16, check out this preview for the Ghostbusters game; it introduces you as the fifth Ghostbuster, talks about the various weapons/tools and shows off plenty of gameplay.

We’ve seen swordplay iPhone apps before, but iSamurai communicates with your opponent’s iPhone via Wi-Fi to (semi) accurately produce sword strike and block sounds.

Little Wheel may be a linear game, but it’s fantastically done: it’s a robot story with a steampun graphics and a jazzy soundtrack; we only wish it were longer. Full walkthrough above.

Killzone 2’s Flash & Thunder DLC gets a 1 million SPF reveal with this drill sergeant-led Nuke trailer; you, too will learn how to dress up atomic blasts like a trailer park girl on prom night.

This story for Homefront is a bit of a stretch–North Korea invades the USA–but just might work; the graphics in the trailer look sweet and it’s being written by the guy who did Red Dawn.

Because a thousand Zergling cranes can’t be bad: Leon Gaban has put together a StarCraft PaperCraft Kit with dozens of origami instructions; also check out the Flickr gallery here.

It won’t turn you into a real beatboxer, but bChamp is an iPhone app that gives you the next best thing by translating your “k”, “b” and “t” into snare, kickdrum and hi-hat sounds.

Most collector’s editions are so-so, but the UK and Australia-only Black Edition of Assassin’s Creed 2 includes a kickass Ezio figurine, 64-page artbook and full game soundtrack.

Easily the most gamer-friendly talk show host, Jimmy Fallon demos Project Natal; the clip above is both fun and funny, but like Jimmy we’d love to have one to take home now.

If you’re tired of killing Nazi Zombies, Call of Duty: World at War’s Map Pack 2 drops today (6/11); this Shi No Numa trailer shows off a new co-op map nicknamed the Zombie Swamp.

If you’re up to your ears in Objective-C programming iPhone apps, this Stencil Kit is perfect for sketching out UI prototypes; it’s gorgeously made from precision cut stainless steel.

WordPress 2.8 is described as a “fit and finish” update, but we think it’s much more with 790 bug fixes, theme browsing and installation, code/syntax highlighting and a better widgets UI.

Vector Boom is a 2D space shooter with a twist: aside from upgrades, your primary weapon is essentially an expanding blast radius, limited by the amount of time you take to charge it.