Otaku doesn't exactly mean "nerd" or "geek". A closer translation for the word "Otaku" would be "fanatic", "zealot", or "enthusiast". It carries about the same negative connotations as "fanatic", or perhaps slightly more.

Hooray! Finally we get some tracked vehicles. A lot of these open-world games featured ridiculous wheeled substitutes because their engines weren't set up to handle tracked vehicle physics. I'm looking at YOU and your silly wheeled Rhino, GTA III/VC/SA.

Durnit, I can't get these videos to work to save myself. They all come up as black boxes. I'm using Firefox 5. I have Kotaku whitelisted on Flashblock and ABP, too.

#corrections

Seriously, how many people in Japan have the resources and the wherewithal to actually construct a bomb that could blow up a train station?

Yeah, I mean, WTF? As long as they're not the Twilight kind and more the White Wolf wet-your-pants-in-sheer-horror-at-the-sight-of-them kind, I LIKE vampires!

I started clawing subconsciously way back in 2004 when I was playing Halo 2 on an Xbox S-Controller. That is, I used my pointer finger to press the face buttons while keeping my thumb on the right thumbstick and my middle finger on the right trigger. I was probably among the earliest adopters of the technique; they…

Before Shadow the Hedgehog was even announced, I mentioned the idea of "Sonic with a gun" in a message board post and was roundly rebuked. I think the reason for that was because I didn't explain myself properly.

Press X to Jason.

I suppose it's true that the digital buttons at the end of the trigger pull allow you to seamlessly combine two functions into a single control, but for some reason, I prefer triggers that feel like the ones on the Sega Dreamcast controller. Just a personal preference of mine.

Sure, the GC triggers are analog, but how many games actually make use of the analog triggers? Many developers opted to treat them like digital buttons only. I basically forgot they even had an analog function because of this.

I will admit that the Wiimote has very nice build quality compared to the N64 or GC controller, but the layout kinda pisses me off. While playing Wii Bowling, I must have accidentally hit the Home button twice.

Yes, I know that most games only require you to hold one or two of the three "prongs", but it's still a pretty goofy, awkward design.

"That stinks dangerous of realising a videogame has had a strong female protagonist for over a decade and trying to undo that as effectively as possible."

"If you can stand to look at yourself in the mirror after all the people you've blown up, you have that option."

God, her old Barbie-doll wasp-waisted figure was actually kind of horrifying if you stared at it long enough. Internal organs go WHERE?

Fucking. Fuck.

I use an Xbox 360 gamepad for a few PC games that suffer from extreme console-itis, like Dark Void, the recent Tomb Raider trilogy from Crystal Dynamics, and Burnout Paradise.

In hell, cloven-hoofed devils force people to play MLG tournaments 24/7 with these things.

I actually hate the crap out of Nintendo controllers. I only tolerate them because I like the occasional Nintendo game now and then.