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Let’s Rank Nintendo’s Controllers, Best To Worst

I published an innocent little story yesterday about an N64 controller that provoked an unexpected response. You see, I hate the Nintendo 64 controller. All my friends hate it. Everyone I ever gamed on the console with hated it. I figured it was pretty safe to share that dislike. Others, on the internet, disagreed. Some…

Last Night’s The Walking Dead: Not Bad, Not Great

Last night, AMC’s The Walking Dead came back on the air for the second half of its third season. I thought the first half of Season 3 was pretty strong, all things considered, and even liked some of the ways they moved away from the source material. I haven’t always been the biggest fan of…

Who Does The Harlem Shake Better, Call of Duty Devs Or Battlefield 3 Players? You Decide.

Up above, we’ve got the Harlem Shake as done by 64 people in Battlefield 3, footage brought to us by YouTube user TheHazardCinema. And below, the opponent: Infinity Ward doing the Harlem Shake. Who does it better, though? I’m leaning toward the Battlefield players because it’s so ridiculous to see the characters like that, but…

Fire Emblem: Awakening‘s Amazing Musical Milieu

We’ve talked plenty about how much we like the new 3DS strategy role-playing game Fire Emblem: Awakening here at Kotaku. Among other things, we like the romance, the permanent death and the even more permanent marriage. And all this despite the fact that no one in the game has feet But while I’ve talked a…

Cutting Everything Into Tiny Pieces In Metal Gear Rising Will Feel Amazing After A Long Day

This commercial for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance really gets it. Many of us want to play the game to enjoy the delights of dicing everything up, and that’ll feel particularly cathartic after an awful day. Not that the feature can’t be a blast even when you’re not having a bad day, but still. Sweet, sweet…

One Thing Dead Space 3 Gets So, So Right

When it comes right down to it, Dead Space 3 is a game about standing in a corner and blasting aliens into bloody bits. I’ve been playing through the opening hours of the game, and despite recognizing the various problems mentioned in some reviews (including Tina’s less-than-glowing review), I have to say that after six…

Watch The Slender: The Arrival Beta In Action… If You Dare

Slender: The Eight Pages was one of the more beguiling successes of last year—a weird, super low-rent thriller that combined the popular Slenderman mythos with simple jump-scare design. Its stripped-down look and basic design were part of the appeal. Its sequel, the upcoming Slender: The Arrival, looks to have upped the ante in just about…

This Crysis 3 Commercial Is Great Because It Doesn’t Take Itself Too Seriously

No dubstep, no angry men blowing up other angry men. Just a dude enjoying himself in the jungle, while shooting a crossbow bow and turning invisible and doing other Crysisy things. The shooter Crysis 3 will be out on February 19 for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. For more, check out Tina’s impressions

While you wait for Among The Sleep, you should try The Plan, an experimental title by the same devs. You play as a fly.

Filling In the Blanks on Neverwinter‘s Character Sheet

It’s been years since I’ve walked the streets of Neverwinter, rapier swinging with every step, ready for whatever dangers lurked in the alleys of one of Dungeons and Dragons‘ most notable locales. It’s also been awhile since I filled out a good old paper character sheet. Why not combine the two? Due out early this…

DS Homebrewing Still Going Strong with Portal Adaptation

The DS still is home to a robust homebrew scene, as we see here in this Portal port that modder Smealum has been working on for about the past six months. “Still nowhere near playable,” he writes under the latest video, but it’s brought along Portal staples like turrets, cubes, switches and energy balls. “This…

With Four Days To Go, Chris Taylor Cancels Wildman Kickstarter

Designer Chris Taylor has canceled his troubled Kickstarter, just four days before funding was scheduled to end. Wildman, an action-role-playing game that promised to be “evolutionary,” had earned roughly $504,000, more than half a million short of its $1.1 million goal. The Kickstarter was due to end on Friday. This project has been troubled for…

A Ten-Year-Old Tried Using A 3DS To Find A Girlfriend

There is something about Nintendo and love birds—first, someone tried using the Wii U as real estate for a personal ad. Now, according to Tiny Cartridge, a ten-year-old tried using a 3DS to find himself a girlfriend. How did he try to do it? Using an app, of course. Specifically, the young Masterclaw360 used the…

Four Months After Releasing Virtue’s Last Reward, The Developers Still Can’t Fix A Save-Erasing Bug

The people behind Virtue’s Last Reward can’t seem to figure out how to patch a save-erasing bug that affects the 3DS version of the Japanese visual novel. Publisher Aksys has posted a “workaround” for the bug, which will erase your entire game if you save while solving puzzles in the PEC room (or Crew Quarters).…

Real Racing 3 is Even More Attractive Now That It’s Going Free-to-Play

The latest entry in Firemonkeys’ Real Racing isn’t just going to be the nicest looking entry in the series when it drops on February 28—it’ll also be the first one that’s completely free to play. In an interview with Bloomberg, EA’s senior vice president for mobile and social game development Nick Earl said the company…

Ungrateful Toy Fair-goers Already Hawking Exclusive Skylanders on eBay

Well, this doesn’t look tacky or anything. Skylanders has been giving out exclusive Toy Fair figurines to attendees of the show itself and a couple of preview events last week. Said attendees are not civilians, as Toy Fair is a closed, industry event. But, knowing the demand for these suckers, a bunch have been listed…

Interested in hunting hidden objects? G5 Games’ Letters from Nowhere is free on iOS and Android until February 17.

Things Get Weird When You Look At Pokémon As An Allegory For Slavery

Unlike the Pokémon games before it, Pokémon Black/White almost explored something interesting: why we catch Pokémon, and whether or not keeping/battling with them is “okay.” But before the games said anything meaningful or deep, they took the easy route and made Team Plasma—the group intent on “liberating” Pokémon and therefore the reason you’re thinking about…

The Next Xbox Has Mandatory Kinect, Game-Swapping and New Controllers, According To Leaked Info

The next-generation Xbox—the one that will follow the still-popular Xbox 360—will run multiple games at once, require game installations, and will only work when a much-improved version of the popular but divisive Kinect sensor array is plugged in, according to a source who says he has access to development hardware. Those are a just a…

MLB 2K‘s Perfect Game Challenge is Back Under New—and, One Hopes, Exploit-Proof—Rules

The Perfect Game Challenge offered by the Major League Baseball 2K series, tainted by allegations of cheating and rules loopholes last year, returns under a new format this time, its fourth in as many years. Though the million-dollar prize pool is still the same size, it will now divide the loot among 30 overall winners,…