These days, it's standard for video games to get downloadable content after they are released. Final Fantasy XIII is not your standard game.

Final Fantasy XIII has not gotten any downloadable content — to the chagrin of players. DLC gives a title a longer life and sometimes provides a more robust gaming experience. Downloadable content is something to look forward to.

On December 17, 2009, Final Fantasy XIII director Motomu Toriyama wrote this on the game's official website: "The world of Final Fantasy XIII is starting from here on out." He then added if players held on to their copies of the game, "good things" were possibility on the horizon.

It seemed as though Toriyama was hinting at future downloadable content for the game.

In a recent interview with a Japanese game magazine, Toriyama apparently said, "We had plans for DLC, but those plans disappeared. Apologies!"

Previously, Square Enix stated that there were enough discarded Final Fantasy XIII assets to make another game.

Kotaku is following up with Square Enix and will update if the companies comments on this issue.

FF13を手元に残しておくと良いことがある→DLCを作る予定があったのですが無くなりました。すいません！ [オレ的ゲーム速報＠刃]

Classy coffee tables are classy, but also boring. What they need is exactly what this one has: a cleverly-disguised set of professional arcade cabinet components.

The Arcane table, from Surface Tensions, looks at first glance to be a glass-topped coffee table. But there's a slide-out drawer in the side, which houses a very fetching controller setup (featuring Sanwa buttons) and even a trackball.

But where do you play? The thickened glass surface doubles as either a 19" or 26" LCD screen, on which you can play as many classic arcade games as the table's internal PC can hold.

For all this, you're looking at £3300/USD$5000, so yeah, likely not for most of you. Still, it's OK to dream!

Arcane Table [Surface Tensions, via technabob]

Final Fantasy XIII, which was previously an PS3 exclusive in Japan, is coming to the country's Xbox 360 console. Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada has been catching all kinds of hell from Japanese gamers for the decision.

Square Enix and the game's staffers had been saying definitively for years that Final Fantasy XIII was only going to be released on the PS3 in Japan.

Some Japanese Twitter users have been expressing disbelief via messages sent to Wada's account, @yoichiw. Others have been far more vicious, calling him a liar, a money grubber and treacherous.

While some said they would not buy the Xbox 360 version, others have been questioning how Square Enix runs its business.

Square Enix did say over and over again that Final Fantasy XIII would only be available on the PS3 in Japan. That doesn't seem to be the case any more.

【裏切りましたね？】Xbox360版『FF13』発売決定で非難の声が殺到！？ [オレ的ゲーム速報＠刃]

Some of those at PAX over the weekend got to see a new gameplay clip of Infamous 2. Since that likely wasn't you, here it is!

I'm not the biggest fan of Infamous - in particular the "rubbery" feel of Cole - but I do appreciate promotional clips in 2010 comprised entirely of gameplay footage.

In 2005, Nintendo published Nintendo DS game "Brain Age" in Japan, a title that claimed it could train players' brains. In 2010, Microsoft's Kinect is getting its own brain game.

Called "New Brain Training: Answer With Your Body", the game has players do things liks swat balloons in order and play Pac-Man with their hands.

The Bandai Namco title will be out on November 20 in Japan and priced at ¥6,279 (US$75).

After Brain Age became a monster hit for Nintendo five years ago, the title spawned a series of similar type brain training games.

And Kinect has a whole slew of games that remind us of things we've played before.

Microsoft has tonight officially revealed a new Xbox 360 hardware bundle, almost a month to the day it was inadvertently leaked via some packaging shots.

The bundle includes a 250GB Xbox 360 S console, the Kinect motion-control camera and a copy of Kinect Adventures. You get all that for $399 (or £300 if you're in the UK).

The bundle will go on sale in the US on November 4, and November 10 in the UK.

It seems that Keita Takahashi, the man known for Katamari Damacy, has left Namco Bandai.

Takahashi's departure was confirmed by website Play.tm.

In recent years, Takahashi has seemed increasingly disinterested in gaming. In an August interview with the Official PlayStation Magazine, the game designer said, "At E3 I saw people putting on speeches but I thought the future seemed a bit dark. The 3D games didn't spark my interest. I think motion control's a bit old now."

Last week, Takahashi gave an interview with tech blog The Setup in which he said he makes video games "for the so-so Namco Bandai Games Inc."

In the 11 years he worked for Namco Bandai, he made 4 titles. As the Katamari Damacy series became more popular, Takahashi became less involved with the subsequent sequels.

"Now, I'm participating in a project to re-design an old park in Nottingham, UK," he told The Setup.

Keita Takahashi leaves Namco, calls it a 'so-so' company [Play.tm] [Pic]

There were some who scoffed at Dead Rising: Case Zero, amused at what they considered to be a paid demo. After hundreds of thousands of sales over the past week, though, who's laughing now?

Capcom's Dead Rising 2 prequel, which in the US cost an approachable $5, was deemed by plenty to be worth the price of admission, as it's racked up over 300,000 sales (328,290, to be exact) since its release last week.

In the wake of those kind of numbers, expect a lot of companies to follow suit, particularly for games like Dead Rising 2 that many people may have been on the fence about. Or anything from Activision or EA.

Dead Rising: Case 0 Sees Over 300,000 Players In Its First Week, What Does That Mean For The Future? [GamerBytes]

Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid, has a verified Twitter account. He uses it to post pictures of his lunch. Boring, dull stuff. But today, he spiced things up by posting a picture of a girl in her underwear.

Kojima writes that it is raining, and he is having lunch in Tokyo Midtown.

To Kojima's credit, he claimed after the girl image went up that he did not post the pic on purpose. Kojima actually has no idea how the image appeared in his Yfrog image tweet. Perhaps it snuck into that tweet, all stealth-like. Or perhaps it is a bug in the image uploader.

The game designer did another image tweet with the intended image (lunch), instead of the previous lunch image (underwear lady).

Kojima later tweeted that he didn't think he was going to use Yfrog anymore. So you can look forward to the daily pictures of what Hideo Kojima is eating and not photos of barely clothed women. Sorry!

小島監督のツイッターIDから下着姿のセクシー美女画像が投稿され話題に [はちま起稿]

The majority of this clip for The Old Republic shows everything that is wrong with both Star Wars' expanded universe and the drudgery of MMOs. Until, that is, the last ten seconds.

Then it reminds us of everything that was once good about Star Wars video games.