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ReviewsToysA Great Big Book About Tiny Toy Cars
Remember Micro Machines, the tiny toy cars pitched by fast-talking pitchman John Moschitta Jr.back in the late ‘80s? Bitmap Books’ Micro But Many: An Unofficial Micro Machines Collection is 400 pages of color photos and history that will ensure you never, ever forget them. Featuring photographs of more than 1,000 nickel-sized cars, trucks, planes, boats, and…
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ReviewsToysArtist Gives Us A Peek Inside Animal Crossing‘s Resident Loan Shark
Having trouble paying back Tom Nook’s loans in Animal Crossing: New Horizons? I find it helps to imagine the person you owe bells to without clothes. Or skin. Kinda like resin artist Scott Wilkowski has done with his “Nookowski” series of see-through figures (via ToysREvil). Scott Wilkowski makes amazing things with resin. Bulbasaur skeletons. Big-headed…
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ReviewsThe Live Gamer Bolt Is An Excellent 4K60 Capture Box If You’re Into That Sort Of Thing
Do you want 4K 60 frames-per-second video game capture, because the Avermedia Live Gamer Bolt capture box is how you get 4K 60 frame-per-second video game capture. As long as your PC can handle it. Back in my day all we needed was 1,080 pees and a ship to sail them by. Today’s gamesters and…
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ReviewsMultiplatformManeater: The Kotaku Review
So many games only let me play as a human. Sure, that’s fun, but it’s not really taking full advantage of games’ ability to let us be and do anything. Maneater gets it. In Maneater, I’m not a dull person—I’m a shark. A dangerous, agile, and cool shark, free to swim anywhere and eat whatever…
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ReviewsToysTiny Anime Reinhardt Is The Overwatch Toy I’ve Been Waiting For
Since the folks at Japanese toymaker Good Smile Company started making big-headed anime figures of Overwatch characters, I’ve been patiently waiting for my spirit hero to make his small but impactful appearance. And here he is, a giant among Nendoroids, Reinhardt. I love him. Available now for preorder from the Blizzard Gear Store, Reinhardt is…
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ReviewsToysPlaymobil Does Scooby-Doo And Crew Right
Iconic German toy line Playmobil continues the licensing push it started in 2017 with Ghostbusters and How To Train Your Dragon with a small series of sets featuring Scooby-Doo and his gang of hard-edged mystery-solving teenagers. It’s my favorite toy version of the cartoon legends yet. Harnessing the simple circle-eyed faces that have been gracing…
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ReviewsToysHasbro Reveals A Taller, Cooler Version Of G.I. Joe’s Snake Eyes
Hasbro is giving its classic G.I. Joe toys from the ‘80s a modern makeover with a line of six-inch action figures called G.I. Joe Classified, featuring more detail and articulation than ever before. Today the toymaker revealed the Classified version of silent-but-deadly ninja Snake Eyes, and suddenly I feel like a little kid again. Back…
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ReviewsFallout 76 Wastelanders: The Kotaku Review
Fallout 76 is an incredibly frustrating game. Its combat feels like trying to unseize an overheated engine by hand. Bugs and occasional game crashes, though much rarer than at launch, remain ever present. Fallout 76 demands a lot of you if you just want to survive, and a ton more if you want to flourish…
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ReviewsToysLego Super Mario Gets His Own Video Game In Dreams
It’s only a matter of time before there’s an official video game version of Nintendo and Lego’s upcoming interactive Super Mario building sets. Using Media Molecule’s Dreams, master video game remaker/demaker Bearly Regal beat them to the punch. It’s basically Lego Super Mario: The Video Game. Over the course of 60-plus hours, game designer Bearly…
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ReviewsPCGears Tactics: The Kotaku Review
When Gears Tactics was first announced back at E3 2018, which feels like 10 years ago, I was excited. I had never thought about it until then, but Gears of War seemed like a perfect fit for a turn-based strategy game, similar to XCOM. It turns out I was right to be excited. Gears of…
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ReviewsKeyboardsKaliber Gaming’s Opto-Mechanical Keyboard Looks Sharp, Literally
I don’t normally go for gaming keyboards with fancy shapes, but there’s something sleek and dangerous about Kaliber Gaming’s HVER Pro X optical-mechanical gaming keyboard. It’s probably the jagged sheet of aluminum screwed atop its otherwise unassuming plastic frame. The underside of the$90 HVER Pro X is the black plastic rectangle of a keyboard base.…
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ReviewsToysMcFarlane Toys Is Remastering The Original Spawn Action Figure
Yesterday I wrote about my favorite new Spawn action figure. Shortly after that post went live, McFarlane Toyslaunched a Kickstarter for a remastered version of the original Spawn action figure from 1995, with double the articulation and a remastered version of the pack-in comic book. In comparison, the figure I wrote about yesterday is garbage…
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ReviewsToysSpawn Is The Best Mortal Kombat Action Figure
McFarlane Toys makes Mortal Kombat action figures. Spawn, the comic book character created by McFarlane Toys founder Todd McFarlane, is a fighter in Mortal Kombat 11. So now there’s a Mortal Kombat-branded Spawn action figure. He’s adorable. To be fair, I’ve not gotten a chance to play with the other two $20 figures in McFarlane’s…
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ReviewsToysLego Super Mario Sets Launch In August, Aren’t Cheap
Nintendo and Lego’s odd amalgam of traditional building set and interactive electronic game kicks off on August 1 with the $60 Adventures with Mario Starter Course, along with the newly announced $30 Piranha Plant Power Slide and $100 Bowser’s Castle Boss Battle expansions. If you want to play with Lego’s weird-looking Mario, with his embedded…
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ReviewsToysI’m Haunted By The Eyes Of The New Michael Keaton Batman Figure
Despite fan protests and being encased within a costume without a movable neck, Michael Keaton’s 1989 Batman is fondly remembered as one of the Dark Knight’s best big-screen adventures. Those eyes, though. Damn those eyes. Thanks to that non-moving neck, the movie and its first sequel are filled with shots of Keaton’s large, emotive eyes…
By Mike Fahey
