No, smartass. As I said earlier, a few times, in a few ways, you don't have to disassemble a controller to check it. You just have to plug it into a Playstation and see what it does.

I'm not saying it's the ideal approach to building a custom joystick. I'm just saying I've seen people choose to do it, and if somebody made one that way, you would be powerless to stop them from exercising any malicious intentions they may have.

If someone wants to intentionally sabotage matches in that way, controller discrimination won't stop it. A large percentage of pro players use custom-built joysticks, and some of them use dualshock controllers for the circuitry. They can look the same as any other unpowered, wired joystick.

It takes two seconds to prove that a controller has no battery. If the lights go out when you unplug the USB, it's safe. If the lights blink or stay on when you unplug it, give THAT person a hard time. Any other policy is just gratuitous, mean-spirited douchebaggery. To suggest that a game primarily played on one kind…

The bullshit you speak of is not journalism. It's sensationalism.

I've said it many times before, and this won't be the last time: It wouldn't be a Kotaku Tekken article if they didn't spell something wrong.

The ban on wireless controllers is complete horse shit, on PS3 as well as Xbox360. If you take the batteries out of either of those standard controllers, it eliminates the problem completely by eliminating their ability to sync with consoles that they're not plugged-into. This is a serious operation on PS3, not easily…

So, spoiler concerns go out the window when you get cranky? Way to be the hero this city deserves.

Maybe you should mention whether these are the costumes that everyone's ambivalent about, half of which have been available on console since launch, or whether this includes the 12 playable characters that everyone's furious about, which are the only reason the DLC in this game has been a story worth following, and…

I blame palette tainting. If you gave me one sample with a blindfold every day at lunch, I'd identify it every time.

That was painful.

The familiar riff doesn't pick up until 1:25, but "Venice Rooftops" is also in Soulcalibur V. One of my favorite songs in the game.

How peculiar with that song starring in such a great opening movie for one of the old games.

I'd like to see a checklist of on-disc songs from all Harmonix games including Frequency, Amplitude, Guitar Hero 1/2/80's, and Rock Band 1/2 that shows which of those songs are now available in Rock Band 3.

FINALLY A RELEASE DATE!

Yeah, just as a track pack, I'm already giddy for the song list. That fact that the game looks great is just icing on the cake.

If this game doesn't satisfy your "Just make another Frequency" itch, then you are far too picky a person.

Not having played it, you have no idea how challenging this is. All songs have only one difficulty level, built using the notes from the expert tracks. I'm sure the difficulty will be substantial if you play songs that were rated at demon-head difficulty in the first place.

You can. The songs in this game also instantly appear in your regular Rock Band DLC library.