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Mattel’s Doing All The Halo Toys Now, And They Look Killer
No offense to McFarlane Toys, who’ve done a great job with the various franchise figure lines over the years, but Halo is much too big a property for a relatively niche company to handle. Now Mattel’s got the master license, and they’re putting it to good use. Mattel and Halo aren’t exactly strangers. Mattel subsidiary…
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LEGO Ninjago Takes To The Skies With 7 New Sets In March
With six seasons of TV and a movie hitting theaters in 2017, LEGO’s original ninja setting has lasted far longer than I expected. Here’s a first look at the new Ninjago sets hitting stores on March 1. I guess kids young and old just really love ninjas. Or maybe it’s the specific combination of ninjas,…
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Even Obscure Anime Can Become A Good Dynasty Warriors Game
Released today for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, Arslan: The Warriors of Legend is based on the anime of a manga adaptation of a series of Japanese fantasy novels that themselves are based on a Persian epic. None of that matters as long as you enjoy Dynasty Warriors games. If you’re not sure, watch…
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Five Nights At Freddy’s Building Sets Coming From Exactly The Right Toy Company
Which company does a creator like Scott Cawthon turn to for toys based on a property with powerful mass appeal but tons of creepy evil? Five Nights at Freddy’s had McFarlane Toys written all over it, and so will the boxes of the upcoming construction sets. Makers of the creepy action figures my wife keeps…
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CultureSnacktaku Judges Lay’s ‘Flavor Swap’ Potato Chips
Eight flavors enter, four flavors leave. The latest in Lay’s interactive marketing is the Flavor Swap, pitting tried and true potato chip flavors against newcomers across four categories—BBQ, spice, cheese and heat. Let’s do this. The stakes are high in the Flavor Swap event, with four classic flavors on the line. Should they hold up,…
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Marvel’s Latest Avengers Game Is Such A Shame
Marvel put together an awesome re-imagining of Avengers heroes and villains as college students. They recruited top notch voice talent like Alison Brie, Colton Haynes and John Cena. All that design work and talent for a glorified Simpson: Tapped Out clone. Look at this key art. I would watch that cartoon. I would read that…
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The Week In Games: Spinning A Yarny
If anyone needs me this week I’ll be hanging around with my little Yarn doll. Or fighting against, with or as ninja. Possibly transforming into a dragon that I’ve been many times before. I might even watch some fires. But mainly it’s just yarndoll and chill. Tuesday, February 9 Arslan: The Warriors of Legend —…
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Super Mario Mech-er
Toy customizer Donald “kodykoala” Kennedy cut a giant Mario figure in half and used push pin ‘rivets’ to transform him into a massive metal monster. Mario’s sacrifice was not in vain. The folks at my local GameStop were trying to get rid of one of these massive plastic plumbers for a year. Every time I…
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ReviewsBlade & Soul MMO Log Two: Grinding To A Halt
It’s been a little over three weeks since I started playing NCsoft’s martial arts MMO import, and my desire to reach the level cap has lessened considerably. Mind the aspect ratio of the video, I was playing on an ultra wide screen. Things were going so well in my firstBlade & Soul MMO log. I…
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The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth Rejected By Apple Due To Violence Against Children
Nicalis founder Tyrone Rodriguez has beentweeting teasing pics of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth running on iPad and iPhone over the past couple of weeks. Then last night he shared Apple’s rejection notice. “C’mon, wtf… Apple” read the text accompanying the image of the iTunes Connect message shared by Rodriguez (via Polygon). Apple’s message reads,…
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How To Get Red Dead Redemption Running On Your Xbox One [UPDATE: No Longer Working]
One of themost requested additions to the Xbox One’s backwards compatibility list, Red Dead Redemption is now available for download and play. Folks just need to own the game digitally and find someone already following the game. Update: Not working anymore. Xbox’s Major Nelson comments on Reddit. From a screenshot showing Rockstar’s Western available for…
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Tiny Hatsune Miku Robot Sings And Dances But Never Kills
To be honest that last bit is just a guess, but I’m 90 percent sure. Maybe 80 percent. Introduced this weekend at Japan’s bi-annual Wonder Festival toy show, this tiny robot version of virtual idol Hatsune Miku is a collaboration between Good Smile Company’s Nendoroid and iDoll, a company that’s known for its little dancing…
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Sunday Comics: Essential Death Lessons
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published February 4. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 1. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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The New Ghostbusters (And Kevin) Get The LEGO Treatment
Man, look at the hair on the official LEGO minifigures for the all-new, all-female Ghostbusters. Kevin, get out of the shot. Kevin? GET OUT OF THE SHOT, KEVIN. Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones will hit the big screen in Paul Feig’s reboot of the classic comedy franchise on July 15. but…
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It’s Time To Solve A Digimon Mystery
A teenager is granted the ability to move freely between physical and digital worlds and befriend colorful monsters made of code, but that’s not important right now. We’ve got to solve the case of the broken air conditioner! It’s called Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, and those second two words are just as important as the…
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Brothers Couldn’t Afford Pokemon Cards, So They Made Their Own Game
Redditor one23abc and his little brother couldn’t afford card games like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh when they were younger, so they made their own, and it’s wonderful. Creature Cards is around 300 glorious hand-drawn examples of the power of children’s imagination. When I was a kid I used to build chess boards out of sticks and…
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