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Origin PC Eon15-S Review: What A Budget Gaming Laptop Looks Like These Days
Somewhere between the fancier notebooks at your local big box store and high-powered desktop replacements is the “budget” gaming laptop, a modestly-priced portable system built to play games well enough. Origin PC’s latest Eon15-S is the perfect example. The Eon15-S is a 15-inch laptop designed by system builder Origin PC to deliver the boutique custom…
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Lego Dimensions’ Second Year Ends Well
This weeks marks the release of the final wave of toys in Lego Dimensions year two, possibly the final wave ever. If the game’s going out, adding Teen Titans, Powerpuff Girls and Beetlejuice to the mix in one fell swoop is a heck of a way to go. It’s been a pretty good second year…
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This Weird Warped Keyboard Actually Makes A Lot Of Sense
Imagine your hands typing on a standard keyboard. Now relax your shoulders and unbend your wrists so your hands line up with your forearms. That’s why the new X-Bows keyboard is so oddly shaped. The X-Bows is a new sort of ergonomic mechanical keyboard, designed to alleviate the repetitive strain injuries of the shoulders, wrists…
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Transformers’ Dinobots Finally Combine To Form A Giant Robot
Announced at Hascon over the weekend and debuting later this month in the Transformers: Earth Wars mobile game, Volacanicus is what happens when the Autobots’ robot dinosaurs get their act together. The ‘80s cartoon and toy line was packed with teams of five or six robots combining together into gigantic gestalts, but the Dinobots never…
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Idle Champions Of The Forgotten Realms Is A Great Game To Not Play When Your Power’s Been Knocked Out By A Hurricane
Hurricane Irma’s violent and selective deforestation of the woods surrounding my Atlanta-area home has left me without power for over 36 hours. One of the few saving graces has been knowing that once I got back to the new Dungeons & Dragons idle clicker, I’d have billions of gold waiting. Idle Champions of the Forgotten…
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ReviewsMultiplatformYs VIII: Lacrimosa Of Dana: The Kotaku Review
The Ys series has been setting the bar for combat and music in action role-playing games since 1987. The latest game, Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, is no different, but it does have something more recent entries have lacked—a memorable story. This post originally appeared 8/30/17. We’ve bumped it up for the game’s release day.…
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Mini Minecraft Building Sets Are Just Darling
Outside of painted cardboard boxes and foam, toys are the best way to play with Minecraft in the real world. Jinx’s second series of Minecraft Craftables vinyl toys feature nine collectible kits that combine together into three iconic Minecraft locales. The first wave of Craftables,currently sold out at Jinx but possibly available elsewhere, were singular…
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World Of Warcraft‘s Latest Would Have Made A Great Expansion
This is it. After fleeing from their home world thousands, hundreds or dozens of years ago (depending on lore revisions), World of Warcraft’s Draenei are ready to take back Argus from the Burning Legion, with the heroes of Azeroth by their side. Kind of beefy for a post-Legion expansion update, isn’t it? Update 7.3, Shadows…
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Arena Is Magic: The Gathering’s Answer To Hearthstone
Revealed yesterday via live stream, Magic: The Gathering Arena is a new way to play Wizards of the Coast’s trading card game online. Built with streaming and spectating in mind, it’s much prettier than tired old Magic Online, which it’s totally not replacing. Magic Online is an excellent way to play Magic online, but it’s…
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Don’t let the shoddy console-grabbed screenshot fool you. Lego Worlds is out on Nintendo Switch this week, and it looks and plays as well as the other console versions, with the added benefit of portability. Exploring is great on the go, but I’d recommend TV mode for precision building.
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Celebrating 25 Years Of Batman: The Animated Series With A Toy Jailbreak
Twenty-five years ago this week, Batman: The Animated Series changed the way comic book characters are translated into cartoons. DC Collectibles celebrates the series with the release a box set of villains, safely imprisoned in their cells at the Gotham City Police Department. Or at least they were. Announced earlier this yearand shipping this month…
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Everybody’s Golf Is Even Fun When You’re Not Golfing
Traditional golf video games rush players from hole to hole, giving them little time to take in the scenery. With free-roaming online courses packed with places to run, drive carts, swim and fish, PS4 exclusive Everybody’s Golf is definitely not a traditional golf game. While normal single and multiplayer tournaments ferry players between holes to keep…
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Grand Theft Auto And Lego Always Go Great Together
The playful simplicity of Lego and the senseless violence of Grand Theft Auto will never officially collide, but YouTube movie makerslove bringing the two togetherNukazooka’s latest short brings the winning combination into the real world. Our little Lego anti-hero experiences many of the guilty pleasures GTA has to offer in just under three minutes, from…
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A Card Game That Makes Awesome Music Mashups
Music mashup creators work long and hard stripping down popular songs into their component elements and then weaving them together into compelling new tracks. Dropmix, the new mobile-connect game from Hasbro and Harmonix, makes this as easy as shuffling cards. The $99 Dropmix starter kit comes with an electronic board with spots for five cards…
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CultureApple Pie Oreos Don’t Taste Quite Like Apple Pie, But Yum
Due to a rapid-fire barrage of novel new flavors, Snacktaku has instituted a temporary moratorium on Oreo videos. But then they had to go and drag apple pie into this. Fine, Nabisco, but you’re not getting a video. Let’s talk Apple Pie Oreos. With Snacktaku threatening to morph into Oreotaku, I’ve been doing my very…
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Dead Rising 4 Comes To PS4 In December With New Bits
Dead Rising 4 loses the “Xbox One console exclusive” label on December 5. The full game is coming to PlayStation 4 as Dead Rising 4: Frank’s Big Package, including all downloadable content and a brand new “Capcom Heroes” game mode. It’s like a game of the year edition, only without being anyone’s game of the…
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Speedrunners Organize Two-Day Marathon For Hurricane Harvey Relief
Games Done Quick, the folks behind the popular semi-annual week-long charity speedrunning marathons, are holding an impromptu two-day event to raise money to help those affected by Hurricane Harvey. Running from from 8PM Eastern today through 8PM Sunday, Harvey Relief Done Quick is a speedrunning marathon raising money for the Houston Food Bank, an organization…
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