Those of you followingFinal Fantasy XIIIshould all have seen the impressive looking summons by now, and the more curious among you might want to know how they work. Well, you’re in luck! Square Enix has unleashedsome fresh detailson how the powerful characters will be used in its upcoming RPG, so sit down, shut up, and pay attention. As you may already know, the summons act in a manner similar to the Aeons (yes I had a slip of the E-tongue and put Eidolons first, you geeks!...

Fresh details have come our way direct from Sony, detailing the “retro”Killzone 2Map Pack, “Flash and Thunder.” This new Map Pack will retail for $5.99 and will once again contain two fresh maps, Beach Head and Southern Hills. Flash and Thunder will be released on the PlayStation Network from June 11. The new maps are based upon multiplayer environments from the originalKillzone, so should give us a taste of what the planet Vekta looks like in glorious High Definition....

Sadly, especially for me, I wasn’t able to get any hands-on time withRatchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction.But, I did ask around to find out impressions others had of the game and not one little person had a negative thing to say about it. The usual response was that the game seemed like a qualityRatchet and Clanktitle. And that’s a good thing, right? Yeah, I think so.So, until we all can get our hands on this baby, check out the video and pictures....

And that, my dear readers, is the sound of 3DS purchasers — more than just those already into Team Ninja’s brand of fighting games — collectively starting to care aboutDead or Alive Dimensions. Such a thing shouldn’t be audible, but man, the people are fired up. The upcoming 3DS fighter contains a Metroid level, complete with Ridley and a dash of Samus Aran. Will she be a playable character? Seems like a reasonable thing to do....

You may not be aware of this, but Destructoid has their very own Team Culdcept, a group of editors and community members that love the card battling board game videogame. We attempt to play the Xbox 360 version,Culdcept Saga, whenever we can. Here recently, we’ve been daydreaming of the newest version,Culdcept DS. Today I wished my Culdcept-loving friends were with me to witness the amazing wall ofCuldceptcard art here at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show....

While we’re still putting together our hands-on and preview coverage, we thought we might show you a bit of what they 2008 Tokyo Game Show looks like. Here we’re showing you a quick walkthrough of halls 4 through 6 of the Makuhari Messe convention center. This video is intended to give you a first-person feel of what it’s like to roam the halls on this press-only day. If it’s shiny and loud, we’ll check it out....

Seeing all of the apps the iPhone has really makes me want to get an iPhone now. ThisGuitar HeroNES mod, however, isn’t one of the reasons. It’s cool, but I think I would have more fun with the balancing scale app than this. I’d be using it to level everything! It would be so much fun! Podtoid needs a new logo, the new Monthly Musing topic is up, Destructoid will be at the ScrewAttack Gaming Convention,Resident Evil 5hit PSN, and plenty more happened on 02/02/09....

Hiya, fellas! Sorry I’m late on posting yesterday’s episode of The Destructoid Show, but Max and I stayed up all last nightplayingDead Islandwith some of the guys from Bitmob. The things we do for work! Anyway, yesterday’s live episode was chock full of giveaways and video game news. First up, it looks likeDeus Ex: Human RevolutionandSaints Row 3are both getting some interesting DLC, Gearbox is doing afan surveyforBorderlands 2, Steam might becoming to the Xbox, and Nintendo is unveiling its newmetallic rosecolor for the DSi XL....

Before I go any further, I promise one thing: We’re done postingPortal-related crafts, cakes, modified toys, and the like. After this post. Really. We promise. Reader Rattiemama sent us images of her custom Weighted Companion Cube tissue box cover, one of the most usefulPortalcrafts we’ve seen yet. Designed for a gamer friend who let her playPortalat his house, this one-of-a-kind tissue box holder even has some weight to it. “The tissue box cover I used as a form for the thing was made of metal bars,” she writes, “so the thing is actually weighted....

Sega has released new details onYakuza of the End, releasing screenshots and offering additional info on special weapons in the game. These are items which you can find in specific locations throughout Kamurocho, including a stationary tank, a forklift and an experimental rail gun. And what would a game with zombes be without a chainsaw? One of the coolest weapons shown is a pitching machine, which can hurl baseballs or grenades in four different ways....

Sometimes, I like to wrap my fingers around the shaft, press a thumb on the end, and pretend that my penis is some sort of warm joystick, and that I am playing video games with it. When I’m not indulging in crude genital make-believe, however, I am gathering uninteresting, boring, and generallyannoyingvideo game non-news. Every week, Destructoid gets sent news tips, many of them awesome, several of them rubbish. Last week’sdebutof the detritus went over really well, so let’s try it again....

Rapper/producer/singer Kanye West is probablynotlike us. He travels the world performing for millions of people; sometimes he make them wait forhours. He, I can only assume, sleeps with a different supermodel — maybe three or four — in every city he visits. He makes more money breathing into a microphone than most people make in a year working 9-to-5 jobs that spill over into 50-plus-hour work weeks. But maybe he’s more like you than us that we think....

Xbox Japan has updated to reveal the firsthot screensofNo More Heroes: Hero’s Paradise. These spicy-hot images reveal the graphical improvements that Travis Touchdown and his psychopathic friends will receive when they make the transition from Wii to HD consoles. Things are looking swanky. There is a definite improvement, one that I’m sure won’t be fully appreciated until we get to see it running on our own HDTVs. Even so, this is exciting stuff, and I can’t wait to see this game get a second chance at selling....