Well, this is a pleasant surprise. It's been a long time since Nintendo pushed a major new IP. Maybe they took a look at their Wii catalog and realized they'd already pumped out sequels to every major franchise they've got, and finally decided to give us something totally new. This is potentially awesome.

@Inzoum: Oh, please. Those designs hardly look the same, and the whole significant tattoo thing was an old trope years before Vagrant Story came along. And I say that as someone who thinks VS was the single best game the PS1 ever had.

@burninfidels: I think it's interesting that you instantly assume it's an RPG. Or that a single out-of-context sentence is automatically cheesy.

The only reason the used title is out there for sale in the first place is because someone bought it. Chances are, the person who is buying it used wasn't inclined to buy it new in the first place; otherwise, they would have. It's not taking a sale away from the developer like pirating has the potential to: it's…

People always go for the easy solution first. This study seems to imply that obesity is just a symptom of a larger set of issues: the inequality between races and social classes.

@Maximegalon: That's because Nintendo's main demo isn't tweens, and hasn't been since the N64. The median age of Wii owners is higher than that of PS3 or 360 owners. And the handhelds have always been dominant across all demos.

I could buy this if they had used some measure other than IQ. The standard IQ metric has not been updated in about half a century. It's ridiculously outdated, not to mention the inherit cultural bias.

@Mythos: Wait, how does objectively reporting your findings make you a hypocrite?

I honestly don't care this time, since Kotaku seems to have decided that flavor-of-the-month titles like Black Ops and NBA deserve nominations more than games with actual staying power and innovation. Starcraft 2 snubbed for a cookie-cutter shooting game? Mario Galaxy 2 ignored for a sports title? Did you guys get…

@KingDarian: Exactly. I bet Reggie Fils-Aime doesn't have a Super Famicom, either.

@Phantom_Photon: What's funny is, this is the exact opposite of what this article is saying. The Wii cooled down not because its games were dumbed down, but because most of them were TOO deep for the casual people who got hooked on Wii Sports.

@SKiTz: But they compared its sales to "your favorite games," and listed a bunch of titles which are considered among the best ever. They did NOT list the best selling games ever, which is a different list entirely. There's a comparison being made.

@WookieLifeDay: You must not have spent much time around six year olds if you actually think this is the case.

ONE FINE DAY IN THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM

Of course, most of the games mentioned above came out 10 years ago and people are still playing them. Will we able to say the same of Black Ops in 2020? That's the real test of the game's value.

@Xcite79: Huffpo's less popular sections, such as arts, books, and religion, tend to be very good. Just stay out of their politics section.

It makes sense that Melee was the hardest one to make. The Smash Brothers series is like building a house:

@akidderz: I'm sorry, but no. Just because we can't take the DeLorean back to the 1500's and have a documentary crew follow the Tudors around to find out what they were really like, doesn't give you free reign to dismiss the very IDEA of historical inaccuracy.

@MrGOH: