Gadgets and Video Games

If you’re an avid follower of pre-release review scores for super anticipated titles, you’ve probably noticed the scattershot scores garnered by Final Fantasy XIII . Most critics’ biggest complaint with the game is its linearity — a qualm which the game’s director, Motomu Toriyama, claims to be a hang-up that’s native to Western audiences and reviewers. During a recent interview with Xbox World 360 magazine ( via CVG ), Toriyama explained, “we think many reviewers are looking at Final Fantasy XIII from a western point of view.” He later added, “when you look at most Western RPGs, they just dump you in a big open world, and let you do whatever you like..

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Final Fantasy XIII director comments on linearity, early reviews

When THQ announced that the De Blob franchise would continue this year, we didn’t imagine it had anything this big in store for what we thought of as a semi-obscure Wii franchise. The publisher has partnered with the ” Syfy Channel ” (ugh) on a new banner called “Syfy Kids,” a multimedia initiative including web content, TV, and games — and De Blob is going to be featured heavily.

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THQ and SyFy bringing De Blob back for games and more

Early copies of Darksiders contained an insert (see above) that quite explicitly asked buyers to not to throw it away — that’s what “do not discard” means. Today it was revealed that the code will net the bearer a free copy of Red Faction Guerrilla for PS3 or Xbox 360. The code will also grant them “a digital Hellbook disc featuring Darksiders art, videos, and other awesome stuff.” Yeah, that’s great but let’s get back to that whole “free game” thing

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Darksiders’ hidden code reveals free copy of Red Faction Guerrilla

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Speaking to Game Informer , Platinum Games’ Hideki Kamiya discussed the possibility of a sequel to Bayonetta . Kamiya noted that the Bayonetta team has “love” for the game, saying, “I don’t see anything wrong with Bayonetta 2 .” (If you’re reading this, Mr. Kamiya, neither do we.) He elaborated that he’d like to approach a sequel “from a different angle, in the form of a spin-off.” Game Informer goes on to speculate that a sequel could star Bayonetta’s rival, Jeanne

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Kamiya keen on returning to Bayonetta, considering spin-off

David Perry’s “It’s not OnLive ” service, Gaikai , recently gained $5 million in venture capital, a Security and Exchanges Commission filing shows. For the uninitiated, basically Perry wants to beam games directly into your house. We imagine the tech behind it is kinda like that crazy set-up the Riddler had running all over Gotham, hence the need for such a large sum of money.

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Score $5 million in funding for Gaikai

Interested in Resonance of Fate but afraid of being burned by another tri-Ace RPG? If you have access to a Japanese PlayStation Network account or (less likely) a Japanese Xbox 360, you can sample the game today. Sega released a demo of the gunplay RPG in Japan, with a tutorial that Siliconera reports is easy enough to follow along with even in Japanese.

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Resonance of Fate demo available on Xbox Live and PSN in Japan

For the first time since the announcement of the game’s burial in the first quarter of 2010, WBIE has released new media for The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest . In case you’ve forgotten about the upcoming Wii/DS/PS2/PSP action-RPG, it’s a kid-friendly game starring a cuddly incarnation of Viggo Mortensen’s Aragorn — and, in the Wii version, an equally huggable Gandalf (for a second player to handle). It seems that, even though you’re in the middle of a war , hacking up thousands of monsters as per, the game’s been approved for kids because your avatar has big feet. New trailer reminds us that LOTR: Aragorn’s Quest exists originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

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New trailer reminds us that LOTR: Aragorn’s Quest exists

If you thought last week’s NintendoWare Weekly update was huge, well … you’ll probably think the same thing about this week’s update! That’s mostly because Nintendo provides quite the overweight offering this time, with a total of ten new titles available for your post-Thanksgiving download.

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NintendoWare Weekly: Tales of Monkey Island, Bookworm, The Combatribes

We talked about the trailer for Turbo back in April, and now director Jarrett Conaway has put the entire short film up on the web for maximum watchability. While it’s a short film, it manages to make a movie about video games look like … a movie about video games (and not some overblown Bay-gasm).

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‘Turbo’ movie trumps Natal, Sphere and Wii MotionPlus