I think I'll be perfectly set with the GameCube controller adapter for Wii U, but PDP's line of GameCube-inspired controllers (known officially as "Wired Fight Pads") are another valid option.

Courtesy of Amazon, we now have some good photos of these gamepads. They are styled after Mario, Princess Peach, and Yoshi, and will be available later this year for $24.99 each. I dig the way they look, but I'd certainly want to see how everything feels before buying.

These are compatible with Super Smash Bros. as well as Wii / Wii U games that support the Classic Controller and Classic Controller Pro, and "most" Virtual Console titles.

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Though Gnar was revealed last month, Riot took the time today to visually explain what the prehistoric champion is all about.

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Yeah, this is actually happening. Classic horror game series Silent Hill is back, with Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima and famed horror movie director Guillermo del Toro involved. Walking Dead TV show actor Norman Reedus is the star. It was revealed in the form of an interactive teaser on the PlayStation Store.

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Nerdist: "When it comes to big budget, triple A titles that get a bad wrap in the public eye, you'd be hard pressed to not hear Call of Duty brought up in discussion. I can't blame folks for their displeasure, either: the leap in innovation from game to game has been minuscule at best for the last several installments of the series. But there's a hero on the way who's dead set on getting the series back on course, and his name is Advanced Warfare."



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"The game's exclusivity makes sense for Microsoft but harms gamers."



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If you played To The Moon, you've probably been looking forward to the next game from its creator, Kan Gao. Good news - his follow-up, A Bird Story, will be out on November 5th.

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Our friends at Sony have bestowed upon us a beautiful hardcover art book to celebrate the launch of their whimsical new game Hohokum on PSN (out today!), and we're going to give it away to one lucky Dtoider!

Featuring gorgeous art by Richard Hogg, The Hohokum Almanac is a great companion piece to the game. For a chance to win it (and a code for the game itself), just leave a comment in this thread! Limit one entry per person, and you have until this Friday, August 15 at 11:59pm Pacific to enter. Contest is open to anyone with a U.S. shipping address.

Good luck! And don't forget, our Huge members get automatic entry into all contests (as well as a bunch of other awesome perks). Try us out!

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Ever since the death of peripheral-based rhythm games, music games have seen a significant shift in focus. Case in point, Crypt of the NecroDancer pairs roguelike tropes with rhythm-based movement.



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VRFocus - The arrival of the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display's (HMD) second development kit (DK2) at the end of July 2014 also saw the release of the latest version of the software development kit (SDK). It brought support for the latest version of the headset, allowing developers to implement DK2's unique features such as positional tracking. Now that SDK has been updated once more, adding new features and fixes.



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GeekParty writes: "When True Detectives Rust Cohle monologued about time, he might as well have been talking about Gods Will Be Watching. Everything single thing youve ever done or will ever do in the game will be done over and over and over again. The level of difficulty is almost intolerable, and youll fail endlessly before you manage to progress."



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Hardcore Gamer: The Golf Club is a game that many players have unexpectedly fallen for and now it has a release date.



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J Station X writes "When I interviewed Jotun designer Will Dubé about the game earlier this month I learnt that the top-down action title is as much Dark Souls as it is Shadow of the Colossus. Its primary boss battles might seem to embrace SotCs gentle giant theme with whatever inspiration grabbing appendages but the jotun in Jotun are going to pulverise you to little Norse pieces if you dont dodge out of the way of their attacks. Like Dark Souls, theres a method in the madness of getting squished by a foot, a blade, or whatever over and over again in that Jotun challenges us to use our wits to defeat its enemies. I thought this sounded like a novel premise but being an in development game, Thunder Lotus didnt really have much to prove that to me. Theyve since put together a combat teaser video for Jotun, showing off the battle mechanics and such."



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ZeroTransform, an indie VR studio, is running a Kickstarter for Vanguard V, a slick action-arcade title for virtual reality. Far beyond the Kickstarter's goal of $198,000 is a stretch goal to develop a version of the game for Nintendo's 'Virtual Boy' head mounted display, nearly two decades after its discontinuation. After uncovering 'The VB Sacred Tech Scroll', a 95 page document that spills the secrets of the Virtual Boy's hardware/software interface, ZeroTransform's Tech Director says the studio is ready, willing, and able to create a version of Vanguard V that will run on genuine Virtual Boy hardware.



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gamrReview's Joseph Trotter: "Amid the Ruins, perhaps later than anticipated for this season, finally brings The Walking Dead to the peak of its own exceptional high-standards. Easily the best episode of this season, Amid the Ruins is arguably one of the best of the whole series. Fun, rollicking, emotional and horrifying, Amid the Ruins reinforces exactly why so many gamers love this series."



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Endless Backlog takes a look at 2011's Alice Madness Returns.



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GG3 writes: "So, Bedlam is out now on Steam through Early Access and its not getting that much traction. Maybe the latest trailer for the genre jumping shooter will help frame the title with some gameplay."



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Gryphon Knight Epic, which is currently in the midst of a kickstarter campaign, is described by its developers as a Medieval SHMUP.



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Ah yes, Twin Peaks — David Lynch's famous psychological thriller. It's such a shame it never got a video game.

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Tetropolis is the story of a defective tetronimo escaping the factory that created it in the kind of Metroidvania-style adventure that Tetris pieces don't tend to find themselves in.



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Ruffian Games released new screenshots of their upcoming game Hollowpoint for PlayStation 4 and PC.



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Mariah Beckman, GIZORAMA - "SoI am normally that person who assumes the best about everything. If I got shot in the arm, I would suspect that the gunman was being considerate with his aim by not connecting with my face. It is carefully, then, and with much leniency, that I can only assume that the developers at Hearthstone designed week three of the Naxxramas solo adventure challenge (the Military Quarter, for those of you who arent keeping count) with a raging collective migraine, as well as a dossier of complaints about what difficulty in mind. How else can you explain the consistently easier bosses and mildly blase cards earned in this weeks wing?"



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Military Charity Launches Digital Video Game Store, Partners With Robot Entertainment and Other Indie Video Game Leaders Operation Supply Drop, a leading military charity that supports active duty troops deployed to combat operations and veterans recovering from their service-related injuries, today proudly announces it has launched Indie Ammo Box, the worlds first video game store directly supporting U.S. and allied NATO troops.



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RIOT demonstrate the recently revealed League of Legends Champion Gnar and take you through the play style and skills.



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Posted by Colm Ahern Last week, Ubisoft formally revealed Assassins Creed: Rogue with a glorious trailer. In said trailer, we saw the brand new protagonist; Shay Patrick Cormac. Maybe youre unaware, but I (@Colm_Ahern) am also an Irish man. SPC is undoubtedly set to become an Irish hero, but I decided to look back at all of my fellow countrymen and women that have graced our consoles, throughout history.



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Gastón, from Twinfinite, reviews this colorful action/tower defense title by Elefantopia.



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Talion sets out to rage war against Saurons servants, The Black Captains, who forced the Ranger to watch as his son and wife were murdered.



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Confused by the newest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie? No, probably not. It was pretty dumb, wasn't it? But that doesn't mean you don't still have some questions, and luckily we still have answers. Spoilers ahead!

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Gaming Illustrated: "Its well known that one of the biggest complaints hurled at Call of Duty over the years is that each new entry does little to change up the formula. No matter how many new guns, modes, perks and adjustments are included, theres a definite group of players that cant see what all the fuss is about. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, like its name suggests, is advancing what players have come to expect from the classic FPS experience by changing some of the very fundamentals of the game."



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Microsoft and Moon Studios have released a new batch of art work and screenshots from the upcoming Xbox One and PC title, Ori and the Blind Forest. These new screenshots showcase some of the platforming locations that were found in the Gamescom gameplay demo, alongside some new images showcasing some quieter times for Ori.



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2K Games has released the Gamescom 2014 screenshots for its upcoming multiplayer focused FPS, Evolve.



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After they recently released a quick look at California Highway, Slightly Mad Studios and My.com revealed the World of Speed Gamescom Trailer. The short video aims to demonstrate that teammates will need to cooperate in order to complete in-race objectives such as sliding, slipstreaming, and pathfinding to win the race.



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WP- "Godus, which is Peter Molyneux's latest baby, is one of the fastest growing games around for the iOS and Android platforms, as well as for the desktops and laptops. Everything starts off all hunky dory early on, with the seeming ability to construct an unlimited number of settlements, but eventually, you'll unlock the farms and mines. Once you unlock farms, each abode will cost 1 wheat, and once you get the mines, each abode will cost one what and one ore."



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Ricky from Twinfinite writes: "Vlad the Impaler is a complete waste of a brilliant premise with some of the worst writing and incompetent execution the adventure genre has ever seen."



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Wargaming, award-winning developer of World of Tanks, has announced today that theyre officially ready to transform into the worlds biggest and most powerful sovereign state. OK, so thats not exactly what was said, but they certainly arent lacking in numbers.



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Mike from Twinfinite writes, "The mark of a truly great and truly hard platformer is when you fight your way through a level, die mere seconds beyond where you last died, and feel inspired by the fact that you've made it a bit farther. Many classics from the 8 bit era have this quality, and it's something few games are able to emulate even with all the techological advances in modern video games. Top Hat, the new game by N94 Games, sets out to capture that era while remaining accessible to current sensibilities. While it hiccups a bit with its controls, it generally does a pretty great job of it."



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Theres something very alluring about alternate-reality-games. They allow designers to craft intricate, baffling puzzles based around scientific minutiae and intense math that would be impossible to solve in a conventional game, and the community will crowd-source a solution. For the most part, ARGs are used for advertising purposes (Halos I Love Bees campaign is the most notable example), but in recent years that sort of insane puzzle design has begun to creep its way into our regular entertainment. Fez is infamous for puzzles that took the entire internet months to solve, and GTA Vs post-game alien mystery still has players stumped (though it might be an elaborate joke).



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I don't entirely understand Donut County , but I want it. You are the hole that goes from stealing donuts to stealing mountains. It reminds me a bit of Tales from Space: Mutant Blob Attacks, which was good.

You, the hole, get bigger every time you swallow something. I am down with this game. It's coming to "home computers & touch devices."

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Happy Tuesday!

I have a confession to make. I have yet to see Guardians of the Galaxy. I know, I know, "where the hell are your priorities?", look, I've been busy moving and stuff....

Luckily, Shadow has had a chance to watch, what I understand may be Marvel's best movie yet, take it away Shadow.

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We don't always click the right things while playing Hearthstone. It's OK—we're human, it happens sometimes. But seeing Baron Rivendare in Hearthstone do it? Ha!

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