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Who in their right mind spends money on branded game controllers? I mean, just use the ones you’ve already got. Seriously. So what if they’re pegged to the upcoming Tron sequel. Or that the design is actually pretty nice. And who cares that they actually light up like you were sitting in the Tron universe piloting a solar sailer or something. I just don’t see the point of having them sitting around, looking cool, and glowing all the time. Um.

[Via Kotaku and Gizmodo]

OMG OMG OMG.

Portal 2 will include cooperative play, and new game dynamics. This video from E3 shows off moving walls and streams of paint which seem to be important … maybe the paint makes you slide faster?

Anyway, it doesn’t come out ‘til 2011, so that will leave plenty of time for feverish nerd overthinking and anticipation.

Next-generation video game cereals:

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Next-Gen Cereal System Edition Winners

A video game where you play by screaming:

I know Christmas is over, but there’s no shame in a late gift if the gift really kicks ass. Just saying.

Soviet Arcade Game Posters (via Kotaku)

Via Kotaku.

If November comes around and you don’t hear from me or see me for a while, you can blame these two:

I don’t know what it says about me that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is my main shooter: It’s a paranoid, twitchy chaotic experience but I love it. The lefty in me gets sort of freaked out about all the teenage suburban boys who play this, but I can’t deny it’s a phenomenally well-done game.

Some gamers are hating on Valve for coming out with a L4D sequel soon, but if the deets in this preview are correct, they’ve added a ton of awesome stuff. Dynamic weather effects, campaign scenes in full daylight, pathways that change depending on the whim of the AI Director, panic events that force you to move forward to finish instead of hiding out, and, oh yeah, more realistic and gory damage modeling. Also, is it just me or are half the characters black? That’s a nice touch too.

And yes, I am only 15 years old. What’s your point?

Chris Rock has a joke about being black, watching the local news, hearing about some horrible crime, and saying to yourself “Please don’t let it be a black guy.” I’m getting that way about being Asian, every time I hear some horrible story about people taking their video games way too seriously.

For example, in Australia, a 21-year-old student stabbed one of his friends in the head and nearly severed one of his fingers over at argument when a bunch of them were playing World of Warcraft. That student’s name: Zhenghao Shen.

Seriously, dude. You’re making it way harder on the rest of us.

[via Kotaku]