I admit I'll be buying one for the next Smash Bros title. Hopefully for more than just that, but even if it's just Smash Bros, I'm OK with it.

While it's a bit of an inconvenience, wouldn't you prefer just running your HDMI to your receiver then passing the video through to your display? I guess if you have an older receiver that can't do HDMI passthrough it'd be a big nuisance, but...

Was the joke that the game came out last year, or that you misspelled Nier?

Sony already jumped in, they created the first commercially available television running GoogleTV built-in. At the moment, it's the only way other than the not-currently-shipping Logitech Revue box to get GoogleTV in your home.

I'm all about it5, but Rage looks incredibly bland to me. The driving looks uninspired, the enemies look pretty dull, and the lack of proper co-op (separate, co-op only missions? Really?) all add up to Rage being a one-weekend rental for me. As much as I want to give Carmack my money, I just can't get behind this one.

I voted Skyrim (over the twin heavyweights ME3 and U3), but El Shaddai is my sleeper pick. Sad it didn't appear on the voting list. I think it's going to be a hell of a game. Also: much love for Journey, looks wonderful.

This has to be the stupidest and most offensive thing I've heard anyone say on Kotaku in ages. That's an honor of dubious specificity.

Everything all at once forever! Fuck me Jesus, that looks awesome. Not that Human Head have necessarily earned my trust, but consider me wildly interested in seeing where this goes.

The Sense music player is improved, but it's still bad. Try Federico Carnales' MetroUI player (it's in alpha or beta right now from his LauncherPro site). He did an absolutely bonkers job porting the WP7 experience to Android.

But see, that's the part that confuses me.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Carolyn Petit, or with any member of the LGBT community. However, when you become a video personality, you're going to take crap for your appearance, no matter who you are— I mean, celebrity magazines always take out the last few pages to lampoon people looking unfortunate— so…

LEGO Alive

I find it more likely to see this in Saints Row: the Third than Red Faction: Armageddon. Just seems more in line with the old Saints Row humor.

Should all these rumors prove true, I fear the price tag for additional controllers. Even if that thing is rocking a very cheap 6.2" capacitive touchscreen LCD, that's going to be one hellaciously expensive controller.

This list is out-of-date, and needs to be updated. The Wildfire, of course, is included on the long list of HTC devices that Unrevoked will one-click.

I don't mean to be a doomsayer, but the Wii is more powerful than last-gen consoles (even if it isn't much more powerful than the original Xbox). And we saw how well that worked out for the traditional gamer. And now Nintendo wish to make a next-gen console that's (presumably) going to be marginally more powerful than…

But Infinite Crisis DID end! They should've just called it Another in a Series of Finite, Non-Final Crises.

To be honest, Secret Wars is a pretty cool title. It's light-years better than Crisis on Infinite Earths. And by extension, Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis. While I don't necessarily think surveying children is a great way to navigate crossover events, in this case it was super aces. America, fuck yeah!

I'm really interested in hearing more about what Sam Houser thinks about games, the industry, and where the major publishers are headed, but I'm not so keen on a really thin, self-serving informercial. I'm usually the last to beg off an article, and certainly I'm aware of the whole you don't have to read it idea,…

The GI article definitely assuaged some of my fears about Deadly Descents. Information was pretty scant, but all his comments seemed pointed at reaffirming the developer's desire to have the new SSX still feel like, well, SSX.