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Last year, it was revealed that Square Enix designer Tetsuya Nomura originally conceived with chainsaws. “There things I wanted to do [with Kingdom Hearts]“, Nomura recently told Kotaku, “but things that were not allowed.” More »

We don’t have the foggiest idea whether Tron: Legacy will serve to reboot Disney’s venerable light cycling franchise, but it’s certainly got peripheral vendors in high gear — you’ll be able to hack the ENCOM Digitizing Molecular Laser with a genuine Tron keyboard and mouse or toss virtual light discs with an Tron-themed Xbox 360, PS3 or Wii controller this holiday season. Gaming favorite Razer crafted this $130 laser-etched keyboard with swappable numpad and programmable macros; it will ship alongside a $100, 5600dpi laser mouse in October, and PDP will provide the console controllers for $50 at an unspecified date. We were bummed to hear that the Xbox 360 and PS3 pads are wired, but in retrospect that might be a good thing — by comparison, Razer’s detachable keypad is just begging to be thrown at an MCP-generated foe. See all the new Tron toys lit up in a video after the break.

Cult of Mac In a shocking turn of events, tonight’s Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05 am Eastern on ABC) will be an unexpectedly ‘very special’ episode. As seen in the clip below, and as reported on the show’s Facebook page , a freak power outage took out the studio cameras and production control room on Monday night — leaving Jimmy to improvise a camera setup using his MacBook Pro instead. The laptop was under a cover, but despite the frequent on-set practice of masking the logo, you can clearly see the glowing Apple through the case back. The show ran a rerun last night, but the laptop-live show will air tonight