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  Now This Is A Joystick

  I once had a Thrustmaster “Top Gun” joystick. Best one I ever had. Got me through 2.5 X-Wing games after I’d broken four on the first one. This new one, though, is a lot nicer. It’s called the HOTAS WARTHOG (Thrustmaster’s caps, not ours), and is touted as a “full replica” of the flight stick…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2010
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  Now You Can Be The Third, Taller Mario Brother

  Reader JC has a design up for voting on T-shirt site Threadless, and we think it’s one worth voting for. Unless you hate plumbers. And who hates plumbers? Anyone can be a plumber in this shirt, which makes us wish Threadless was a store that also specialised in caps and hallucinogenic mushrooms. In case you…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2010
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  A Very, Very Small Game Of Pac-Man

  Like microscopic. Literally! Experimental artist Kotaro Tanaka has created this playable Pac-Man that requires players to use a microscope. The feed from an original Pac-Man arcade board is run through an XRGB-3 upscan converter and projected on a small mirror and seen through the scope. All of this is housed in a lab work bench.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 8, 2010
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  Xenosaga Action Figure Comes Out Guns Blazing

  Couldn’t scrape together $550 for that sweet KOS-MOS statue, Xenosaga fans? Maybe this $50 figure is more to your liking. It’s a Figma figure, meaning that unlike the statue it’s got joints and lines everywhere. Those joints and lines are there for a reason, though, as it’s highly posable, the inclusion of a stand meaning…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2010
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  A Visual Guide To Wii Party

  Balance Ship was one of the standout mini-games in Wii Party. Hiding a Wii-Remote might seem gimmicky, and it might actually be. But I don’t care, it’s fun. This type of game is probably familiar to those who have played the Mario Party games. Match-Up is a classic matching game with a Mii spin. http://youtu.be/2XApWiHUuu…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 8, 2010
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  Xbox 360’s AT&T TV Service Launches In November

  Having first been revealed in, oh, 2007, it seems that the Xbox 360 is finally going to be able to play nice with AT&T’s U-Verse streaming TV service. Thing is, there’s a catch. Well, catches For one, you can’t just sign up and use the Xbox 360 on its own like you can with, say,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2010
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  What Is The Most Overrated Video Game?

  Hello! It’s Friday! So let’s talk. You and me. And that other guy. Him Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 8, 2010
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  Watch Obama Bring The Rain In NBA Jam

  US President Barack Obama is in the new NBA Jam, alongside a bunch of other prominent past and current politicians. Sounds like it’s worth a chuckle when you read it, but man, you have to see it. This is how elections should be fought. Not with votes, or advertising dollars, but with boomshakalakas.

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2010
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  A Left 4 Dead 2 Message Left 4 Japan

  Found in The Sacrifice downloadable content. It reads: “Taki… I love you. Good-bye.”

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 8, 2010
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  The 3DS’ Battery Won’t Last As Long As The DS’

  While Nintendo is yet to release concrete figures on the battery usage of the 3DS – not that you can ever trust official figures – company president Satoru Iwata has hinted that it won’t last as long as the DS. “As for the battery, it is inevitable that Nintendo 3DS will be a device which…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2010
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  The Terrans Exploit The Carpool Lane

  Seen in bumper-to-bumper traffic by Kotaku reader Jim L.

  By Owen Good Published October 8, 2010
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  Before Kinect, Microsoft Had “Exotic” Motion Controllers

  In 2010, Microsoft’s Kinect is a motion-sensing camera that requires no control pad. You are, as the marketing goes, the controller. In the beginning, though, things weren’t so fancy. According to a big write-up on the history of Kinect on Wired, in 2007, Xbox boss Don Mattrick had called for a “reimagining of the way…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2010
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  Don’t Expect That World Of Warcraft Movie Any Time Soon

  While Hollywood director Sam Raimi is keen to make a World of Warcraft movie, whether he made it soon was always going to come down to the result of a tussle for his attention between it and another project. And it looks like that other project – Disney’s Oz: The Great And Powerful – has…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2010
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  This Week’s Madden Moments Are Free

  A sponsorship with Verizon Wireless means the three latest “Madden Moments Live” for Week Four of the NFL are 100 percent free. Ordinarily they’re redeemed with Madden Coins, which are earned in online play or purchasable outright. Ordinarily, Madden Moments Live have asked you to rewrite history; two of them this week ask you to…

  By Owen Good Published October 7, 2010
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  Sexy Ninja Turtle Costumes

  At this very moment, I’m browsing the “sexy costumes” category of an online retailer, wondering what can out-weird the fact that they sell “sexy” Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle inspired get ups. Oh, right. This is tonight’s open thread. Sorry. One school of thought contends that any character, any uniform, can be sexy-fied. Their evidence comes…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 7, 2010
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  Have You Seen This Wolf Pup?

  Capcom’s official Okami Facebook page is running a giveaway; first three to spot this lost-dog poster in New York will get a plush Chibi. See the page for details on submitting your entry. The phone number is real. It connects to a voice mail asking you to bring Chibi to the address on the poster.…

  By Owen Good Published October 7, 2010
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  Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Beta Comes To All PlayStation Plus Members

  Sony’s PlayStation Plus service moves firmly toward “worth it” today, now that Ubisoft has extended the beta program for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood from “select” subscribers to “every” subscriber. Everyone in the PlayStation Plus camp should now be able to grab the game’s multiplayer demo from the PlayStation Store. If you’re hungry to play some Assassin’s…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 7, 2010
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  Awesome Kicks For Your Xbox Live Avatar

  Preordering NBA 2K11 via GameStop delivered a free Chicago Bulls road jersey for your avatar; NBA 2K11 now has six different pairs of classic Air Jordan sneakers to help complete the look. The shoes, for 160 Microsoft Points (or two bucks) are the Air Jordan I, III, IV, VI, XI and XIII, makes that will…

  By Owen Good Published October 7, 2010
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  StarCraft II’s Next Episode Still A Good 18 Months Out

  Blizzard fans are a patient lot, so the gap between StarCraft II‘s future episodes focusing on the Zerg and Protoss races should be easy going. It’s only going to be about 18 more months before we see the next one. So said Battle.net project director Greg Canessa at GDC Online in Austin, Texas today, according…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 7, 2010
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  Duke Nukem Forever Walks A Fine Line — Of Decency

  The studio in charge of Duke Nukem Forever asked that press not film a trailer featuring strippers,”the word f—-ing” in giant letters and an alien getting punched in the balls repeatedly, because it risks a harsh rating. Don’t film the trailer? You mean this one? Randy Pitchford, chief of Gearbox Software, which is now handling…

  By Owen Good Published October 7, 2010