FUEL ECONOMY: THE LATEST LOOK AT MOMMY’S BEST GRAPPLE BUGGY

The last trailer for Grapple Buggy — the sophomore Xbox Live game from Weapon of Choice creator Nathan Fouts — goes beyond the debut trailer’s mechanical preview to give you a better idea of the branching energy-crisis storyline lying somewhere underneath, and the cutely low-budget voice-acted conflicting relationship between human pilot Nova Commander Javeya and her alien sidekick Drozo.

The game is still hovering somewhere between either Xbox Live Indies and Arcade proper, though there’s a good amount of time between now and its newly pushed back 2010 release date to get the channel straight.