Straight from the Multiplayer Games Forum - a 4 minute police chase from GTA:IV

Things to look for in this latest look at Capcom’s anticipated sequel:

The new 100 hand slap looks completely natural.

No polygon clipping when Zangief grabs Blanka. It’s a clean grasp which many fighting games struggle with.

Guile actually lip syncing the words as he does specials.

Ryu’s cringing face when he gets caught by the dragon punch. That’s detail, and almost makes up for the lack puking from Street Fighter II.

The horrific costume design of Abel who looks pulled from a boss battle in Final Fight 2.

Vipers incredible looking flying flaming kick. Fei Long has some competition.

Remember in the first Halo when the Covenant Elite rushed you with energy swords? Oh wait, that was Halo 2.

Originally though, that wasn’t the case. Master Chief was nameless, he looked thinner, and ran around in third person. This original Apple keynote where they revealed the game for the first time offers an interesting perspective on the game, pushing it’s then incredible graphics. The main Halo theme is already in place, meaning maestro Marty O’Donnell was in place from the get go. Many of the ship designs are almost spot-on with their final versions.

For a deeper look, long defunct PC gaming magazine Incite (which also had a console based spin-off of the same name and retailed for only a $1) had a preview on its included CD-ROM. It shows the early physics, and gives and idea of how the third person view would have worked. AI hasn’t been programmed, and Master Chief is still nameless. The foundation is there, but Halo came a long way before it landed on the Xbox.

By now, Halo 3 videos are a dime a dozen. We’ve all seen ‘em before, and most are admittedly pretty lame. However, I spotted this one on Kotaku and couldn’t resist posting it here. So, check out the glory that is the mystery Warthog betrayal.

Let us hope that every multiplayer game from now till the end of time includes the playback feature.

It was only a matter of time before the biggest name in gaming and the biggest name in sports crossed paths. ESPN just uploaded a video featuring the top ten Halo 3 kills, complete with commentary from Chris Puckett of Major League Gaming. I guess it’s official; gaming is a sport.

While none of my saved films, Halo 3 or otherwise, measure up to the high level of skill on display here, I’m betting more than a few people have videos that are equally impressive on their Xbox 360’s hard drives. Thanks, Bungie, your saved films feature is the gift that keeps on giving, and may just bring professional gaming to the mainstream before all is said and done.

Nintendo of Europe has a brand spankin’ new Advance Wars: Days of Ruin video up on their site. Don’t be confused by the “Dark Conflict” banner, however. Instead, think of it as a prime opportunity learn about video game localization. I’ll let Wikipedia do the honors.

In case you haven’t been following the upcoming DS title with the same religious fervor as the rest of us, Day of Ruin ditches the usually bright and cartoony visuals of the Advance Wars series in favor of more dark and dreary fare. The gameplay’s received a few major overhauls as well, including the introduction of several new units, including powerful CO units. Most importantly, Days of Ruin will feature online multiplayer modes and allow you to download custom maps from other players through Nintendo’s Map Center. The details are all readily available in a handy preview/interview from 1up that reveals you can store up to 50 downloaded maps at a time.

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin will be available later this month and will potentially keep you glued to your DS for the rest of your life. It almost doesn’t seem fair releasing the console’s obvious Game of the Year so soon into 2008, does it?

Tales of the Past III is the 90-minute World of Warcraft machinima that’s been making the Internet rounds lately. The action-packed movie follows a host of well-known Warcraft characters, including Thrall and Jaina Proudmoore, as Alliance and Horde are forced to join together to face an impossible threat. You can download the movie from Warcraftmovies.com, but if you’re allergic to the 2.3 GB filesize, they also have a streaming version available.

Tales of the Past III is obviously a labor of love for writer/director Martin Finch. The film is incredibly impressive, using a combination of skilled editing techniques and clever use of WoW as a movie making tool to produce a slick, high quality movie that goes reel-to-reel with most summer blockbusters. Clearly, the machina bar has been raised.

Regardless of your opinion of the genre, you’ve got to give City of Heroes’ developer Cryptic Studios credit for producing something other than another fantasy or sci-fi themed MMORPG. This newest video for the game’s latest free expansion, titled Issue 11: A Stitch in Time, introduces players to Mender Silos and his time traveling super friends from a million years in the future. He’s here to save the world from a ghastly doom so you’d better listen to what he has to say. In order to save the future from itself, Silos has agreed to send players back through time to experience (or re-experience, as the case may be) some of Paragon City’s most crucial historic events. Sure, you can do the same thing in World of Warcraft using the Caverns of Time, but in City of Heroes you can do it while standing side-by-side with a Wolverine clone.

The super hero MMO has carved out quite a niche for itself, and as this video demonstrates, there’s a certain charm to City of Heroes’ unique, over-the-top celebration of super hero comics. Yes, it’s juvenile and ridiculous, but flying above the streets of a busy city, landing only to clobber a pair of muggers and save a helpless old woman is empowering. And fun, of course.

City of Heroes Issue 11 is available now.

Unlocking achievements and earning Gamerscore is the one multiplayer game all 360 owners are playing. Achievement Whore or not, there’s no denying that having a higher Gamerscore than the guy next to you is a satisfying ego boost. After the Xbox 360 first launched, Gamespot put together a feature detailing how to quickly and easily get 6,000 more Achievement Points than your closest competition. While the achievements featured are absurdly easy and put you just a few rentals away from some all natural, e-peen enhancement, none of the games feature achievements as ridiculously simple to unlock as those found in Avatar: The Burning Earth.

Don’t be embarrassed about having a licensed Nickelodeon game in your played history. After all, your score is higher than the poor sap that doesn’t, and if you don’t have a higher score – Gamer or otherwise – than everybody else, why are you even playing video games in the first place?

Thanks to NeoGAF for bringing this video and the equally hilarious image above to our attention.

As I am in a video mood today so I am posting some classics that you simply need to see to believe.

This one comes to us as a finalist from the Auckland 48hours Film contest called PhairyTale which is a love story (kinda?) about a young girl leveling her way through what appears to be World of Warcraft. Enjoy!

Warning: its 7 minutes long for you folks who can only handle 30 second clips of someone doing something funny.

I know this is months and months and months late…but its still a great trailer. GTA IV looks to be one very cool game. As a huge fan of the GTA series dating back to the birds eye view of the first PC version I can’t wait for this game to come out! There have been rumors and speculations surrounding a GTA IV delay (possibly due to Halo 3’s mega launch) but who knows. Keep watching this space for updates…but until then we can at least enjoy the trailer:

These two videos are what the Internet was invented for. This may not have too much to do about multiplayer gaming but I could not resist posting both of these. First up is a video that was hot last week about a guy who is has 3 PS3’s. The following video is a follow up to the first uber geek who actually has 4 PS3’s. Does anyone know how many times they say PS 3?

What could possibly follow up a video of this caliber? Checkout below for something even worse…

Enjoy!

Bonus Link: Wired.com writes about an astrophysicist using a cluster of eight (8!!!) PS3s to crunch the mind-blowing numbers involved in modeling gravitational waves. From Wired: “Apparently Dr. Gaurav Khanna is employing his so-called ‘gravity grid’ of PS3s to help measure these theoretical gravity waves — ripples in space-time that travel at the speed of light…” Check out the full article here, and brace yourself for awesome on a cosmological scale.