If Brink's dystopian setting becomes a reality, someone remind me to petition to change the name of The Ark into something less cliché.

Video Blips:

• Brink's extensive character customization ensures that you'll defend or sabotage The Ark in style. Of course, I hope avoiding getting your head blown off is more important than fretting over what kind of hoodie matches your charcoal black boots.

Continue after the break for the massive feudal battles of Total War: Shogun 2, Yakuza 4's impressive collection of surly-faced men, and a jovial look at one eventful kingdom in The Sims Medieval.

• One might say that Total War: Shogun 2 possesses plenty of bushido. Granted, I'm not exactly sure what bushido actually means, but the venerable samurai swore by it, and they kicked mighty ass.

• Get up, go shopping, punch faces -- Yakuza 4 definitely has the daily rigors of a mobster down pat. Now, if only someone could tell them that butterfly-collared jackets went out of style decades ago.

• It's good to be the king in The Sims Medieval...until your foolish demise by poison ingestion. I think it's an unspoken law to associate Monty Python with anything remotely medieval.