Does anyone else long for the days when the effeminate Final Fantasy guys had spiky hair?

Video Blips:

• Final Fantasy 13 has quite the action-packed Japanese TV spot. Like the best Hollywood trailers, it leaves you asking, "Wait, what!? Tell me more!" [GameTrailers]

Continue after the break for a violent Dante's Inferno developers interview, scandalous things you can do in The Sims 3 this holiday season, and a developer interview for Splinter Cell: Conviction.

• Ooh, how scary -- according to the Dante's Inferno developers, Violence, the seventh circle, is "seething with negative energy." Being there probably gives the DualShock 3 all sorts of bad vibrations. [GameVideos]

• EA's top 10 reasons to give The Sims 3 this holiday season looks more like the top 10 immoral things your Sims can do in the game. Where's the moral panic, and why aren't politicians crying foul? Disgusting. [Kotaku]

• This Splinter Cell: Conviction developer interview breaks down the background story and characters. While watching, it's fun to pretend it's a documentary, something like "The Life and Times of Sam Fisher." [Joystiq]