When I posted my favorite teasers and trailers from E3 2009, there was one that I forgot: the new trailer for The Last Guardian, the latest from the folks behind Shadow Of The Colossus and Ico. Both Shadow… and Ico have received high acclaim for their storytelling, visuals, and novel gameplay. While The Last Guardian‘s trailer doesn’t—as far as I can see—show any gameplay nor does it divulge much about the storyline, the game’s visuals are undoubtedly gorgeous and even touching (especially the final scene).

This is sadly and painfully spot-on. So much so, in fact, that part of me wants to laugh, part of me wants to cry, and part of me wants to throw something across the room.

Last night, I dreamed about a trailer for the upcoming Transformers movie that was so awesome I woke up smiling and positively giddy.

However, even that pales in comparison to this.

I recently mentioned that Dragon Age: Origins is right at the top of my “to play” list of video games. Well, right next to it is yet another BioWare title, Mass Effect 2. A short teaser was released earlier this year, and now, a new video has arrived.

The video is being billed as a “Prelude to E3 ‘09 Trailer”, so it’s basically a promo for a promo (assuming that yet even more Mass Effect 2-related video goodness will be forthcoming at E3). In any case, what it does show, both in terms of video gameplay and developer interviews—which touch on everything from the revised gameplay and weapons systems to the storyline—is pretty neat, and certainly gets me excited to play the game when it’s released in early 2010.

As much as I love them, I just don’t have much time these days for video games. And so I have to prioritize, and rest assured, BioWare’s Dragon Age: Origins is at the very top of my list.

I was pretty excited when a new trailer recently surfaced, but after watching it, I’m a little disappointed. Not by all of the violence and bloodshed on display, nor by the sexual content. From the very start, BioWare has described Dragon Age: Origins as a dark, adult fantasy game influenced by writers such as George R.R. Martin. (For the record, I found the sexual content more humorous than anything else—I didn’t know brave warriors wore bras and panties.) No, what bothered me was the use of Marilyn Manson’s “This Is The New Shit” as the trailer’s soundtrack.

First off, it just strikes me as odd and rather anachronistic to use modern rock to sell ancient fantasy (another example would be Nine Inch Nails’ “Just Like You Imagined” in 300‘s trailers). And if you’re trying to present your game as a dark, mature fantasy, it also seems odd to use music from someone who is typically identified with angst-ridden goth teens (and whose puerile schtick became passé in the late nineties).

When I heard Manson’s growls, my first thought wasn’t “Wow, this game is going to take me on some thrilling adventures in a magical land”, but rather, “Does this mean I have to buy this game at Hot Topic?”

So Star Trek was great and all, but did it have a scene where a shark launched itself out of the ocean and bit a plane out of the sky? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, the latest from The Asylum, starring Lorenzo Lamas and Deborah “Electric Youth” Gibson.

Currently one of my favorite songs (along with Mono’s “Ashes In The Snow” and Junior Boys’ “Sneak A Picture”). I like this version more than the album version, and it’s all due to the chiming, Seventeen Seconds-esque guitar which comes to the forefront in a live setting—I’m just a sucker for that hollow, spectral post-punk guitar tone.

And no, it doesn’t hurt that the song is, in part, an homage to Daniel LaRusso. Yes, that Daniel LaRusso.