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ReviewsToysPutting Together Bandai’s Pokémon Models Is Fast, Fun, And Mildly Horrific
Earlier this month Bandai and Bluefin announced the North American release of Bandai Spirits Hobby’s Pokémon models kits, starting with Pikachu, Eevee, and Mew this spring. Last night I assembled all three. It only took me about an hour, and I was only slightly traumatized by Pikachu’s hollow plastic face. The PokePla kits are perfect…
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ReviewsMultiplatformJourney To The Savage Planet: The Kotaku Review
We get a lot of funny video games. We get a lot of strange games. But wacky video games are rare. Journey to the Savage Planet, a short new sci-fi first-person shooter, is, despite some flaws, wonderfully wacky. In this game, you don’t punch enemies. You slap them, complete with a comedic thwack sound. Alien…
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ReviewsToysUntitled Goose Game Could Get An Official Lego Set
The Lego Ideas program lets amateur builders submit their creations for consideration as official Lego products. One of the hottest projects in the program right now is based on one of the hottest video games of 2019, That F***ing Goose. Here’s how Lego Ideas works. Builders submit their creations to the website. Lego fans browse…
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ReviewsToysBig-Headed Anime Fortnite Figures Are Coming
Japanese toymaker Good Smile Company makes big-headed anime figures out of everything from Blizzard hero shooters to scary clown movies. It was only a matter of time before they started in on Fortnite. Already big-headed, the bright pink cuddle team leader is a great place to start. I don’t play Fortnite, but I love the…
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ReviewsToysLook At This Little Corgi Burger
Look at this plush corgi cheeseburger. As both Kotaku’s resident toy and snack aficionado, I’ve been mesmerized by this glorious thing for days. Do I tag it “Toys”? “Snacktaku”? Both? Probably both. It’s a seven-inch plush double cheeseburger with a corgi face for the top bun, which is completely silly and I love it. It’s…
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ReviewsToysHere Is Kirby On Pancakes Brandishing A Stick Of Butter
What is sweeter than Kirby? How about Kirby sitting on a stack of syrup-soaked pancakes raising a glistening stick of butter over his head? Throw in a strawberry and that’s about as sweet as Kirby can get. This little two and a half inch-tall figure is part of Banpresto Box’s Kirby’s Dolce Collection, a $30…
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ReviewsToysNew Model Kits Let You Build Your Own Damn Pokémon
What sounds more fun: picking up a pre-assembled Pikachu from the Pokémon aisle at Target, or building your own Pikachu out of a pile of colored plastic pieces? We’ll find out this spring when Bluefin brings Bandai Spirits Hobby’s PokePla model kits to North America. Building models rocks, especially when those models become fully-articulated action…
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ReviewsETCAll The Star Wars I Need Is This Home Arcade Machine
Between the internet’s love affair with Baby Yoda and people arguing over whether The Rise of Skywalker is a masterpiece or utter garbage, it’s a strange time to be a Star Wars fan. That’s why I’m thankful for Arcade1Up’s $500 Star Wars home arcade machine. It takes me back to the ‘80s, when fans didn’t…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewThe Worst Games Of 2019 According To Metacritic
2019 was a year filled some damn good games. Baba Is You, Resident Evil 2, Control, The Outer Worlds and many more high-quality games released this year. But it’s not all good and this year also saw the release of some games that weren’t well-reviewed by critics or fans. Here are the top five worst…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewFahey’s Top 10 Games Of 2019
Can you pick out my top ten games of 2019 from the image above? Of course you can’t, there are only seven games shown there. Want to find out what the other three are, maybe read my justifications for them being on my list? Gonna have to click. That’s how I get you. I spent…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewThe Jackbox Party Games Are Some Of The Best Games Of The Decade
For Christmas this year, my GF and I went to her parents’ home and chilled out all day there. We ate brunch and dinner, opened gifts and relaxed. It was nice. But what made it even better was Drawful 2. And this ability to make nearly any party, gathering or hangout better is why The…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewThe Year In Tiny Video Game Text, 2019
Games are cheaper than ever, but the three cataract surgeries I paid for this year in order to read the words in them has made the hobby itself way more expensive. In all seriousness, it’s 2019 and so many games, both big and small, are still impossible to read without squinting until a blood vessel…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewVideo Game Fashion Disasters Of The Decade
Video game clothes are usually either very good—like every single thing Bayonetta wears, or all of Jesse Faden’s boss bitch suits in Control—or they are very, very bad. This is a celebration of the decade’s fashion blunders in video games. May they all rest in piss. Low Rise Pants In The Sims 4 Low rise…
By Gita Jackson
