Nine years ago, as a young tech reporter at Time Magazine, I co-wrote a buyer's guide with the latest and greatest gear known to man. Today, it sounds ridiculous.

Seriously, those green LED eyes would stare questioningly, deep into my soul while I tweak its switchable analog/digital nipples. It's modeled after the DualShock controller, and supports the PS3, PS2, and PCs. It looks bizarre, and I like it.

Sony pretty much implied that backward compatibility was dead when they released the PS3 Slim (without PS2 support), but just in case, Sony's John Koller put a few nails in that coffin during two recent interviews.

Why buy Nintendo's fancy Wii Classic Controller or humiliatingly turn the Wiimote sideways when your old PS/PS2 controllers are perfectly fine? Import this DualShock to Wii adapter for just under $20 and no one will even notice. [Gametech via Kotaku]

"The Gaming Revolution" shirt foretells the day when the proletariat will rise up and seize control of the government using advanced military skills developed through endless hours of Call of Duty. [Threadless Thanks Paul!]

Oh Sony, you fooled the internet! Everyone thought (and still hopes) that you were going to announce something big and important today. Instead, the PS2 will officially drop to $100 starting tomorrow. [PlayStation Blog]

There have been plenty of murmurs regarding a PS2 price drop as part of Sony announcements tomorrow, and now Kotaku looks to have confirmed it with some Kmart SKU data. But Sony, we said we wanted a PSTHREEEEE price drop, not two. [Kotaku]

Can't afford Mad Catz's ridiculous Tournament Edition SFIV FightStick? Just build your own out of cheap fake Tupperware. Plus, it'll tote a sammich over to your friend's house, though I'd avoid tuna salad. [TechEBlog]

Remember that crazy, bulbous PS3 motion controller spotted in a Sony patent app? Well a newly uncovered Sony application is slightly less Requiem for a Dream and slightly more Captain Planet.