Required listening: Ni no Kuni, Anarchy Reigns, and an interview with Aliens: Colonial Marines composer Kevin Riepl

Required listening is a new monthly feature focusing on game soundtracks and the people who lovingly create them. For the first edition, we'll take a look at Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, DmC: Devil May Cry, and Anarchy Reigns, as well as an in-depth interview with Aliens: Colonial Marines composer Kevin Riepl.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: THQ, GameStick, and Project Shield

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Anarchy Reigns is the digital version of a big box of mismatched toys (review)

Platinum Games returns to the beat-em-up genre with a title that hopes to be so much more, but ends up as a bit less.

Bayonetta locked down as GameStop preorder exclusive for Anarchy Reigns

Sega will still release Anarchy Reigns, but Bayonetta will only come with a GameStop pre-order.