Alan Wake’s American Nightmare launches on February 22, 2012 in North America. The official launch trailer has gone online, giving gamers a poetic and action-packed look at the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade, horror-shooter.

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare is a third-person, action-oriented horror game. It’s a pseudo-sequel to hit thriller, Alan Wake, which recently became available for PC and originally launched for the Xbox 360 back in 2009. The new launch trailer does a good job of setting up the game as a more run-and-gun title as opposed to the more story-driven original.

Have you ever played a third-person shooter and thought, “Well, this is all well and good, but why isn’t it underwater?!” before screaming and throwing your property out the window? Put down that hatstand, because there’s a demo for Deep Black: Reloaded. And it features jet packs and harpoons.

This is, I should stress, from Biart, the same people who brought us Depth Hunter. The “Reloaded” comes from its being a version of a 360/PS3 digital game, but, um, the console’s Deep Black hasn’t been released yet. My brain hurts. It’s a near-future sci-fi, that promises a story involving espionage and bio-terror, and a smattering of world supremacy.

Far Cry 3 is the upcoming sequel to the 2008 video game Far Cry 2. It is currently in development and is due to be released in 2012.

Far Cry 3 takes place on a tropical island found somewhere at the intersection of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. However, Patrick Redding, a Ubisoft story designer, mentioned that an Antarctic setting is a possibility for future games. The main goal of the game is to escape from the islands (as there will be more than one, mentioned by Dan Hay) and their crazed inhabitants.

This feels dirty: the Far Cry 3 trailer has leaked a day early, a CGI introduction to the lead character’s holiday going stinky. I have just watched it and can confirm there’s bad language, a boat, guns, and a man not shooting someone when he really, really should have. It also confirms the release date as September 6th, and has dubstep. If you want to watch it, the link’s there, although there’s every chance it’ll be pulled by legal ninjas. In that case, there’s a teaser trailer below.

I’d have shot him.

Here’s a quick teaser of the Mass Effect 3 “Take Earth Back” trailer and check out the full trailer when it debuts this Sunday during “The Walking Dead.”

If trailers showing off plenty of gameplay, quick cuts, throbbing music and over-the-top action, then the latest teaser trailer for Mass Effect 3 isn’t for you. Before you think that’s necessarily a shot at the trailer itself, we’d suggest that you take a look at exactly what the Reaper invasion of Earth will mean on human terms.

Warp is a puzzle-based stealth action game from Trapdoor.

After gaining a cult following since it’s 2008 release Spelunky has finally been brushed down, smartened up and given a HD re-release!

If you never played the original then you have some catching up to do.

Love means knowing when to cut your boyfriend’s head off with a chainsaw.

Lollipop Chainsaw is an all-new third person action game featuring a killer heroine with a chainsaw that fights to stop zombies from taking over.

This launch trailer for Shank 2 is a spectacle of gore and cartoony style. One of the sequel’s additions to the original downloadable game is Survival Mode, which you can get your bloodthirsty eyeballs on right here. Both there and in the game’s single-player, rest assured that yes, you will feel like Rambo (and that’s not new to the sequel).

Shank 2 is available now on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.

Shoot Many Robots has a directness I can appreciate. When I eventually make a game, I’ll call it “Craig Make Gun Bangs”: it will have no story apart from a bit that says “he puts a bullet in his gun” in Comic Sans, and then a few seconds later “bang” spelled out in bullet holes. I reckon Ubisoft will pick it up like they have this four-player Borderlands-esque platform game. Sure, mine won’t have pretty graphics, charm, wit, or be anything more than an idea scribbled in crayon on a cereal packet, but then they already have that in Demiurge’s game.

The cartoony co-op wild west steampunk… thing is coming out this year, digitally getting all up in your grill. In it, you and friends will dispatch numerous androids. I feel I’ve put my scribbles up for an unfair comparison: the video shows off a small fraction of KMR’s enemy contingent, personality driven robotic death machines. My stick figure with a bear’s head stuck on and the word “Bobot” (TM) written in black underneath it clearly needs a bit more work.