Tingle is a small, masculine fairy who shares a name with a common auto-erotic accessory aimed at women. His game is called Tingle's Freshly-Picked Pink-Coloured Rupee Land... a clear euphemism for Tingle's Freshly-Picked Clitoris. You'd have to be a lunatic to ignore all that and come up with the notion that Tingle's gay.

Still, Nintendo has apparently been keeping abreast of the whole "Is Tingle A Homosexual?" debate and has decided to more scientifically gauge American gamer's reactions to Tingle via a poll on their website. "Do you think he's gay?" is not a question on their politically-correct questionnaire. But here's an unrelated question:

Rupee Land incorporates a unique gameplay system in which everything costs Rupees — the trick is that you never know how you need to pay. What do you think of this system?

I think the exact same thing of it now that I thought as a backpacker of a similar system being employed all throughout the Middle East: it totally sucks. Florian Eckhardt

Kotaku reader Keith sends word that in their latest questionnaire, this one about Metroid Prime Hunters, Nintendo asks readers which sites they read. Included on the list was Kotaku, along with cross-town rival Joystiq and the perpetually loved Penny Arcade, to name a few.