lol- This whole thing looks very 90s. Everything from the over-the-top pitch to the ridiculous gun designs (glowing lights! lady robot voice! FINGERPRINT ID ACCEPTED!) just screams X-TREME.

I hope this sort of thing catches on and spreads. I'd like a bar where I'd feel like I fit in (I don't follow sports or play pool), and an arcade that isn't full of sticky-fingered brats and row upon row of "put in a coin to try and win a bunch of tickets for crappy prizes" machines.

Yes, actually. The shareholders know that on December 23rd, 2012, the stars will be right.

Oh yes, because that's going to save your company from irrelevancy. Really, the market for Symbian is about to catch fire, just watch, honest. And I hear that in five years, someone other than Engadget readers might actually know what MeeGo is!

@Philip.J.Fry: Its ok, this is the internet. There is no sourcing here.

@MrTripps: ... Mr. Plinkett? Is... is that you?

@William Juarez: *psst* Use "ca.gizmodo.com". Hell, append "ca." onto the front of any Gawker site, and it'll use the old format.

@espinha: In the US, there's actually an unofficial market for Coca-Cola imported from Mexico, which uses proper sucrose instead of fructose.

Is anyone else getting a mild Ferngully flashback?

I will admit to still having a certain fondness for keyboard sliders (nothing like it for typing fidelity), but it seems doubtful that Apple would add a keyboard when its fairly simple to find keyboard-mounting cases, and they could instead make a splash with a smaller baseline formfactor than ever.

@Squirrelbot3000: *psssst* Append "ca." to the front of Gawker URLs to see the old format. E.g., "ca.kotaku.com"

@TheLolotov: Well, it would be a little bit more of a pain than that, since you'd have a lot of remote traffic routing systems that would need manual restarting as well, but yes, basically, this is just an inconvenience attack. Even they admit (in between making melodramatic references to "bringing down the world…

In unrelated news, watch out this Tuesday for the new SyFy Channel Original movie, "Shadow Internet".

We disparage the $80+ dollar price tag of a TI-8x calculator these days, but I guess it still beats having to pay your 'calculator' a yearly salary and vacation time.

@5thAveCocaine: I was recently informed by another commenter that we can still view the old layout by prefixing "ca." to the gawker site URL. So, "ca.kotaku.com". Working great for me so far.

@Bubbsdaddy: Oh my god...

Is Hasbro making these toys? Because if not, someone should tell the company's legal department that the "Trigger Happy" toy is clearly sporting a pair of Nerf Mavericks, and they should probably change that.

I'm gonna call "Fake" on this one. That's just a screencap of Gears 2 that someone pasted a webcam picture into the corner of.

Yeah. And you can bet this isn't getting added to the console versions, too. Because for some reason, its become a rule that at best, console games only have 3 or 4 preset controller layouts and no customization option.

@Donatom3: Ephebophilia doesn't really roll off the tongue like pedophilia does, though.