That's it. What constitutes being "offensive"? No clue. Valve won't say. Every once in a while they emerge from their cave like an angry old bear and speak with their actions, but this "rawrgrowl boomsmash" approach doesn't give a clear indication of where Valve draws the line. If they want to take a stand against…

This is sort of different. Clearly GameFreak had a roadmap in place to release these legendary pokemon in *future* games on the same console. But because these are the same generation of games, players expect to be able to trade their pokemon between each other anyway, so they included the battle models and mechanics…

Part of the issue, and something I really fail to understand, is that many of these updates could happily be downloading and installing themselves in the 23 hours a day that I'm *not* using the console. But they don't for some reason, and I don't understand why really. Even if network bandwidth is the issue (and if it…

That's a great idea! The price has me wondering if I might be able to make something like it at home; it would be truly one of a kind if it was hand made.

Push notifications is more of an API / programming distinction. Push notifications are sent by the service to the phone automatically, without the app even needing to be running. This is in contrast to polling notifications, which requires the app to ping the server periodically to see if there's anything new to…

The issue is something you may not notice until you really start to nail down advanced techniques with the game: lag. The wiimote and all its variants operate over bluetooth, and so have a variable amount of lag to the inputs. This translates into slower reaction times as a player, and can really cause problems if the…

Though Smash Bros. is most well-known for its multiplayer, the new Smash includes a number of things you can enjoy solo. There is the event mode, which, while not new, is one of my favorite parts of the game. Events are fun challenges that pull from the lore of the characters. In one challenge, you might be Jigglypuff…

The main gain is slightly technical, but easy to digest. Most current programs, browsers included, make use of high-precision numbers. These are typically integers that need to be larger than 4 billion, or floating point numbers that need to be as precise as possible. A 32bit program can work with these numbers, but…

This is precisely why Bestbuy does its price matching with a whitelist, and specifically refuses to match third party listings on amazon and the like. Because people like this do exist, and will try to game the system.

Even more fun is that this is canon, assuming Super Mario RPG is considered canon. The chancellor once remarks, "I almost dropped my spores!" when recalling something frightening.

The first is that it's a free-to-play game with microtransactions – what these cover remains to be decided, but I'm told it'll be a mixture of cosmetic items and progression "boosts" for those who are short on time. The second is stylistic. Ranging from lizardmen engineers through feline Arctic survivalists to my…

This one was really innovative on my part, as I fight big boo from on top of an item block. I have to first lure big boo to the item block, use him to get on it, raise him so I can fight him from my level, and then actually kill him. The testing for this one had so many revisions and dead ends, that it was great that…

I'm starring your for screwbisoft alone. First time I heard that one, I laughed out loud.

Jezebel, you're occasionally *quite* humerous, and I did particularly enjoy this post. However, is there any way we can flag NSFW stuff like this to not even show up in "Trending"? That shows up on *all* the sites. Normally Kotaku and Lifehacker are perfectly safe for work, but "50 Shades of Dick" isn't the most…

Ermh... ok, wow. I previously ranted about how easy it was to add swimming pools. Then I see that they let you build them *inside houses* and have this multi-level thing going on. That's way, way more complex (programming wise) than what I originally envisioned. I'm suitably impressed; seems like it was worth the wait.

I remember tweaking IRQ settings on my old 486. I managed to figure out how to make audio work one day and it was *glorious.* My father never could get it to work, and he bought the computer and game originally.

And once again, looks like we'll be using skype and Wii U at the same time. Ugh.

There's a Target Blast mini-game in which you launch big ol' bombs at various targets.

You know, y'all are pretty awesome for running stories about things like this, and ad blockers and the like. These kinds of things would most directly influence your bottom line, and yet you inform the public anyway. Major respect earned.

My biggest gripe with Diamond and Pearl is simply that the composer never varies the intonation. Every single note from a particular instrument is played at the same volume, with no modulation, no variance, no life whatsoever. That's what I mean when I say it sounds flat; I could take the same songs and the same…