Premier Trailer: MLB 2K11

You saw the teaser trailer a month ago but now check out the full feature premier trailer for 2K Sports’ MLB 2K11.  The game is hitting stores on March 8th and it looks to be the best baseball simulation game in the market.  Tons of new features, better graphics, and of course amazing on and offline gameplay.

Dynamic Player Ratings
Watch your favorite MLB® pitcher strike out the side in a real game, then watch his stats improve in your game. Dynamic Player Ratings update daily in MLB® Today, Franchise, and My Player.

Revamped Fielding System
Completely revamped fielding system, featuring improved AI, throwing meters and landing indicators to give you more control to run down a fly ball or make the play at the plate.

My Player mode
Guide your player through the Minor Leagues™ and into the history books with an improved My Player mode.

MLB Today
Stay up-to-date on the latest happenings in Major League Baseball®, with timely play-by-play commentary and stat overlays pulled from real life news and box scores.

Total Control Pitching & Hitting
The battle at the plate comes to life in the palms of your hands. Paint the corners with pinpoint accuracy on the mound, and then fight off nasty sliders until you get the pitch you’re looking for at the plate.

New player models
Amazing attention to detail captures every intricacy of the game.  Enjoy completely rebuilt player models for Major League™ authenticity like never before.

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Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (TV Trailer)

Back in the DreamCast glory days, I used to own people in Marvel vs. Capcom.  Even though I don’t have as much time to play videogames (although I still find time to give people the business in NBA 2K11 at least once a week on Xbox Live), I would love to get nostalgic on my 360 with the new release of Marvel vs. Capcom 3. The game looks crazy dope and with all the new features it’s been nothing but great reviews.  It’s in stores now so I might have to make a GameStop run…

Features:
• Innovative graphics and gameplay bring the Marvel and Capcom Universes to life: Powered by an advanced version of MT Framework, the engine used in Resident Evil 5 and Lost Planet 2, now comes to Marvel vs. Capcom 3, bringing beautiful backgrounds and character animations to the forefront.
• Evolved VS. Fighting System: Wild over-the-top gameplay complete with signature aerial combos, hyper combos and other original systems. The evolved battle system takes the exciting mind-reading game to a whole new level!
• 3-on-3 Tag Team Fighting: Players build their own perfect team and use Assist Attacks and each character’s special moves to create their own unique fighting style.
• Living Comic Book Art Style: See the most adored characters from the Capcom and Marvel universes brought to life in a “moving comic” style, blurring the boundaries between 2D and 3D graphics.

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Awesome: Real Life Mario Kart

Check out a real life Mario living the life and cruising on his Mario Kart through the streets of Europe.  LMAO at him stopping and buying more bananas and then flipping the cops off at the end!

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Windows Phone Connects With Xbox Kinect

Check out this technology preview from Microsoft Games Studios showing the connection of Windows Phone 7 and Kinect for XBox 360.  Although this looks cool and very impressive, I barely trust my Xbox 360 to not give me the red rings of death every time I load up NBA 2K11 and I NEVER trust this HP I got running Windows at my office so why would I trust using a Windows device as my daily cell phone?  Mac > Windows

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Madden 11 Previews Super Bowl XLV

The good folks at EA Sports give us their preview of Super Bowl XLV with the Pittsburgh Steelers holding on to a close victory over the Green Bay Packers.  The crazy thing is that this video was simulated at the beginning of the season and coincidentally the Packers and Steelers both ended up in the Super Bowl.  Also, six out of the last seven Super Bowl champions have correctly been predicted by EA’s Madden simulations.

Short Film: Beyond Black Mesa

You remember those Half-Life / Counter Strike computer games?  Well check out this fan made independent short film that was inspired by those videogames.  The movie is about Adrian Shephard and a band of resistance fighters struggling to get out a warning about the impending invasion.  Cool stuff.  Check out more information at their website Beyond Black Mesa.

Game Trailer: Duke Nukem Forever

Remember Duke Nukem 3D way back in the day?!?!?!  Well the sequel is finally here and it’s taking on the title Duke Nukem Forever.  The sequel will be released on May 3rd for PC, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360.  With the amount of views this trailer has on YouTube, I’m sure this game is going to be a hit just like it was in the early 90′s.

Call of Duty: Black Ops – First Strike Multiplayer (Preview)

For all of you Call of Duty: Black Ops addicts…

Available first on Xbox 360 February 1st. More details to come for PS3 and PC.

First Strike contains 5 incredibly diverse maps spanning the globe; featuring 4 multiplayer maps and a new Zombie experience. Includes “Berlin Wall”, allowing combat on both sides of the imposing wall; “Discovery”, a desolate, frozen German outpost in the Arctic; “Kowloon”, battle in the rain along the rooftops of a towering Chinese sprawl; “Stadium”, an intense locale with a pro hockey arena backdrop; and “Ascension”, where you fight zombies in a Soviet launch facility.

Get all the latest news on www.callofduty.com and follow @JD_2020.

First Look: Top Spin 4

2KSports’ Top Spin 4 comes out on March 15th, 2011.  Tennis videogames can be fun on occasion and I’m sure 2K’s offering is definitely the cream of the crop for that genre.  The 4th installment will feature top tennis pros such as Nadal, Serena, Djokovic, Federer, Roddick, Wozniacki, the return of Andre Agassi, and more.

Introducing: World of Warcraft x Microsoft Kinect

World of Warcraft nerds are about to lose their minds…Let’s just please keep this capability out of the hands of the wrong WoW players aka The Greatest Freakout Ever Brother.

We are developing the Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST), which is middleware to facilitate integration of full-body control with games and VR applications. FAAST currently supports the PrimeSensor and the Microsoft Kinect using the OpenNI framework.

In this video, we show how FAAST can be used to control off-the-shelf video games such as World of Warcraft. Since these games would not normally support motion sensing devices, FAAST emulates keyboard input triggered by body posture and specific gestures. These controls can be dynamically configured for different applications and games.

FAAST is free software that uses the OpenNI framework (www.openni.org). We are currently preparing the toolkit for an open-source release. You can download FAAST at: http://people.ict.usc.edu/~suma/faast/