We're kicking off Episode 11 of GamesRadar's Trailer Trash Theatre with a few more awful trailers from last week's GamesCom conference. We didn't get any multi-racial-pseudo-family-acting-like-morons-in-the-living-room trailers in this episode, but there are still many more ways to make a trailer... trashy.

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Excellent news for Nintendo fans, Mario completists, video game historians, and casual Wii owners desperately in the need of some proper games. The Wii is getting a special edition of Super Mario All-Stars (ie. the SNES compilation of Super Mario Bros. 1 - 3, including both the Japanese and US versions of SMB2. ie. a gift from God), and yikes, does it sound a lot more special than the average special edition.

Full details are inside. Click and lust.

It's almost been a year since I claimed the fastest recorded time on Act 1 of the Xbox 360 version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. So I figured it's time to reveal the secrets and let you have a go at getting your own Guinness World Record. So here, in video form, is exactly what you need to do to if you wanna be a record breaker (ooh). You've got dedication already, right?

There's a very good chance that portable gaming changed forever last night . We're talking serious vision-of-the-future stuff here, and even better, that stuff is available right now. To you. For free. Trust me, shit just got real.

Last night Epic Games, creator of Gears of War, Unreal Tournament and the is-there-a-single-HD-game-that-isn't-made-with-it Unreal Engine 3, released a free tech demo on the iPhone's App store. That demo is called Epic Citadel, and is a real-time, fully controllable, first-person look at the Unreal Engine 3 running on a device supposedly less powerful than a PSP. It looks like the screenshot above, which I took last night as I played. And that is to say, it looks like a full-sized console game.

All the rules of portable gaming have changed, and if you click on, both myself and Mr. Towell will tell you why.

Why so black?

Still no official word on zombie mode yet (seriously guys, what the hell's going on?), but this new video from this week's CoD: Black Ops multiplayer event in L.A. reveals a a whole new online angle set to bring ecstatic joy and elegiac, murderous despair in equal measure.

Wager Mode allows players to bet in-game currency (COD Points, no doubt named after a high-level creative strategy meeting between a bunch of high-level creative execs, who rewarded themselves with yachts) on their final ranking, over four different match types of varying harshness. How harsh? Why, that particular knowledge is held within the fortified keep of a dark citadel, deep amongst the dread mountains of a faraway mystical kingdom. In order to attain it you must journey...

Oh alright, just click through the link then. Jesus, I try to spice things up...

If there's one piece of advice that's always stuck with us, it's 'don't suck someone else's socks'. Kirby clearly didn't heed this advice and it's landed him in no end of trouble. Yup - this sock sucked him in instead. That'll learn 'im. At least... that's the meaning we've taken from this brand new Japanese trailer for Kirby's Epic Yarn, headed to Wii this autumn.

By now, it's possible you've finished Mafia II's story. You may have even scrounged around and found all 50 of its hidden Playboy centerfolds, giving you a complete set of what might be the best collectible whatsit ever dropped into an open-world game. But you can't really say you've exhausted Mafia II's potential until you've hunted for its ultimate collectibles: the whopping 159 developer portraits disguised as wanted posters. At present, we've only found 55 of the 159 posters, but in the interest of getting this into your hands quickly, we're putting up this guide as a work-in-progress...

Still can't get enough Mass Effect 2? There's a rather meaty addition coming this Tuesday, which looks to explain why Liara was all pissy and preoccupied when you bumped into her on Illium. We've actually had a go at this DLC already, we just can't say too much about it until later this week. Until then, here's the trailer, which arrives just in time to remind you to buy it on Tuesday.

Futuristic car chases inside!

Why aren't there more rodeo games out there? Probably because they would suck. But throw in realistic motion controls and strong visuals, and developer Perpetual FX Creative thinks it has a winner.

In a post on the official PlayStation Blog, Perpetual FX said it wanted to create "the full experience of professional rodeo to anyone and everyone as realistically as possible." And, of course, the only way to do that is to swing a lit wand in front of a motion-tracking webcam...