Final Fantasy XIII comes out this week for PS3 and 360. Yep, that’s pretty much all you need to know. Actually the game is already out as of today, so you should go buy it because it’s suppose to be pretty dope. There are other games coming out this week but none come close to what FFXIII has to offer, well at least for me. Okay, now I gotta get back to playing. Hit the jump for the full list ..read the full article

What!? You thought I was done!? You thought the endless list of New Vegas bullet points had actually ended!? Well, you were wrong!!

As Ripten’s resident Vault Dweller, I have managed to compile even more information on Obsidian’s upcoming sure to be best selling gigantasaurus megahit, Fallout: New Vegas. Read or die mutant scum!!

During the opening sequence: the courier (that being you) is executed with a headshot. No ambush. Character look creation: Mitchell holds a mirror in front of your ..read the full article

The Square Enix online review embargo gets lifted tonight for all of the outlets covering the upcoming state side release, but GamesRadar’s perfect 10 review score got the red carpet 24 hour exclusive treatment. Funny how that works. I originally thought that they just said the hell with the embargo date but silly me … that never happens.

Final Fantasy XIII hits store shelves March 9th, but I hear that if you slip a GameStop employee 10 bucks they’ll give ..read the full article

The first week of March gives us a pretty nice array of new video game releases as Modern Warfare 2’s biggest opposition, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, finally hits stores and baseball season starts in the video game world with MLB 2K10 and MLB 10: The Show also coming out. Oh, don’t let me forgot to mention the return of the Blue Bomber in Mega Man 10 for the Wii. That should be dope. Hit the jump for the full list ..read the full article

Looking for a bit of Final Fantasy lovin’ and can’t wait any longer for Final Fantasy XIII? Well, here’s something that might hold you over till FFXIII is out: both Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II are now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch for $9 each. Both of the games feature extra content, along with updated graphics, of course. The original Final Fantasy includes the five bonus dungeons, The Soul of Chaos pack and The Labyrinth of Time, which ..read the full article

Not a bad looking week in new games with BioShock 2 and Dante’s Inferno arriving, along with Star Ocean: The Last Hope for the PS3 and Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll for all you Wii Balance Board owners. The DS gets a little love too this week with Percy Jackson and Scene It? Twilight. The PSP gets no love at all with nothing out this week, which isn’t unusual. Hit the jump for the full list of new game ..read the full article

A recent European PlayStation.Blog interview with Final Fantasy XIII Director, Motomu Toriyama, and Producer, Yoshinori Kitase, reaffirmed the total playtime of 50-60 hours we already knew about months ago, and talks about about the added missions (side-quests) in the game that add to the mix. When asked about the “sidequest” content specifically, they responded with the following:

We call them “missions”, rather than “quests”. During the second half of the story, when the characters go down to a place called ..read the full article

A Teaser trailer for the next installment of the Fallout series went up today. This game is currently in development by Obsidian Entertainment, as the franchise is currently on loan from Bethesda while they work on whatever it is they’re working on (Elder Scrolls 5?)

As you may or may not know, Obsidian was founded by former members of Black Isle Studios, including Feargus Urquhart and Chris Avellone; and as you may or may not know, ..read the full article

The combination of EA Games and BioWare has Mass Effect 2 reaching two million sales worldwide since its release this past Tuesday. EA wasted no time declaring the sequel the first “blockbuster of 2010″ in a press release that hit our box not long ago. BioWare co-founder, Ray Muzyka, stated the following:

“Mass Effect 2 is poised to be one of the biggest games of 2010 … We could not be more proud of the game’s universal ..read the full article

According to the internet, those who crack open the pages of the Dutch flavored Official PlayStation Magazine will be treated to a multi-page preview of Final Fantasy XIII complete with a Yoshinori Kitase interview. It is rumored that Kitase, the game’s producer, talks a bit about the release date differential and DLC content, stating the following:

“At first we had plans to release the game simultaneously worldwide … so we had the intention to deliver identical version ..read the full article

Here’s some details about a PSP bundle (or two) for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, the biggest PSP game since Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. They’re quite good. There is not much more to say.

The Sony deal will cost about $295, and includes the game, a camo-skinned PSP-3000, and a case. The more expensive Konami one will include some dog tags, a stand, and a booklet of some description. Neither are the most exciting things in the world, but they’re ..read the full article

There have already been two new content releases for BioWare’s Epic RPG Dragon Age: Origins. Both Warden’s Keep and The Stone Prisoner were released with the original game and made available for download immediately. However, a 3rd piece of DLC, “Return to Ostagar” was slated for release on Jan 5th,  it was then delayed until Jan 15th, it has now been delayed … again, leaving Dragon Age fans asking WTF!?

When asked about the ..read the full article

BioWare has just announced their plans for the first two DLC additions to Mass Effect 2, and both will be accessible free to those who buy the game new via a new platform the company is calling “The Cerberus Network (TCN).”

Non used game buyers will be able to use TCN to download the first DLC for free on January 26th, in tandem with the game’s release, and the second DLC sometime after that. Used game lovers will still ..read the full article

Nintendo have today announced that they will be providing pre-order customers of Pokémon Heart Gold and Soul Silver with one of two Pokémon figures.

If you pre-order Soul Silver, you get the Lugia figure, which as you can see is a decent-looking figure. If you pre-order Heart Gold, you get the completely shit Ho-oh figure. That’s not to say the quality of the figure is bad, just that Ho-oh is the worst-named, worst-looking and just generally worst Pokémon in the ..read the full article

HanbitSoft has finally made good on their promise. They’ve acquired the rights to Hellgate: London in North America and Europe, and intend to start up service in both territories later this year.

Two weeks from today, it will have been exactly one year since Namco Bandai shut down the servers, presumably for good, with only Korean service continuing on under HanbitSoft’s direct supervision. But according to a press release today, HanbitSoft has finally acquired the necessary licensing rights from Namco Bandai ..read the full article

A proud member of the Ripten extended family and fellow Ripcaster, Beau Baxter Rosser, was nice enough to share some offscreen footage of Heavy Rain gameplay he captured at CES a few days ago. Have a look at the three videos below and let us know what you think in the comments section.

Sony: Heavy Rain Won’t See U.S. Censorship Heavy Rain Box Art, Release Dates Finalized Heavy Rain Playable Demo In the Works, Requires Heavy Thinking New Heavy Rain “Blue ..read the full article

This is not the best deal you’ll find on Final Fantasy XIII. No, I’d venture to say that within weeks of release, you’ll find plenty of copies of FFXIII available at used games stores around the globe, after their owners have finished the reportedly linear-to-a-fault story and traded them in for the next big thing.

But if you must have a brand-new copy of Final Fantasy XIII, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better deal than the one going on at ..read the full article

Star Wars: The Old Republic has been hotly anticipated by nerds across the galaxy (myself included) since BioWare first announced the MMO in October of 2008, well over a year ago. When talking about Electronic Art’s fiscal year, EA CEO John Riccitiello may have announced that the game is aiming for a Spring 2011 launch.

“One key driver is going to be the launch date of our major MMO. As it stands today, the game is making great progress towards ..read the full article