Gran Turismo 5 favors serious torque when sailing over hills or tearing through the woods. I wish I had one of these cars to drive like that to grandma's house.

Video Blips:

• Gran Turismo 5's title cinematic shows how a clod of dirt transforms into a sleek Nissan GT-R. The cyclical (and frantic) piano accompaniment befits the mechanical nature of the automobile industry. [GameTrailers]

Continue after the break for the corporatocracy of Mindjack, disembowelments by huge weapons in Lord of Arcana, and an escape from a mysterious facility in Project I/O.

• In Mindjack's cyberpunk future of uncontrolled technology and corporate proxy wars, your mind is at risk of being taken over by colorful balls of data. As if being shot at by corrupt policemen wasn't bad enough, now I have to contend with a digital Tinkerbell trying to copulate with my brain.

• Which brutal weapon will you choose to slaughter your enemies to become the next Lord of Arcana? This trailer's message is so viscerally simple -- "get a weapon and kill things" -- a cave orc could do it! (Sorry, cave orcs.)

• Portal fans will immediately pick up on Project I/O's clear influences. A male-voiced AI assistant? So that's where GLaDOS's husband went to!