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ReviewsToysLego Pays Homage To Its Heritage With A Wonderful Wooden Minifig
In 1932 Ole Kirk Christiansen, founder of The Lego Group, started making and selling wooden toys out of his shop in Billund, Denmark. The company continued making wooden toys until 1960, two years after the Lego brick as we know it today was born. Now The Lego Group celebrates old and new with a seven…
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ReviewsSwitchLuigi’s Mansion 3 Is An Eerie Delight, From The Lobby To The Penthouse
Why is Luigi still scared of ghosts? After all, it was nearly 20 years ago that he Hoovered up an entire building full of poltergeists in the original Luigi’s Mansion. Then he cleared out six haunted houses in 2013’s Dark Moon. As he enters a massive spook-infested hotel in this month’s Luigi’s Mansion 3, one…
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ReviewsToysCute Japanese Action Figure Line Not So Cute Now, Is It?
Good Smile Company’s Nendoroid line of action figures is known for huge heads on tiny bodies and incredible cuteness. Or at least it was. It has changed all that. Nendoroid Pennywise is not an adorable scamp at all. The rictus grin, the cracked forehead, both somehow even bigger than the one actor Bill Skarsgård sports…
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ReviewsHeadsetsNew Wireless Gaming Headset Can Go At Least 80 Hours On One Charge
Sennheiser’s $200 GSP 370 Wireless Gaming Headset boasts “up to 100 hours of wireless gaming” on the back of its unassuming package. I used it for 80 hours before finally getting nervous and putting it on a charger. Known for excellent sound delivery devices, Sennheiser isn’t a company that needs loud and flashy advertisements for…
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ReviewsToysBorderlands 3 Replica Pistol Is A Real Handful
The coolest thing about Borderlands 3, or any Borderlands game for that matter, is the guns. Colorful guns. Plastic-looking guns with corporate logos, flashing lights and explosive sounds. Due out in December, PDP’s $150 Prop Replica Maliwan Pistol captures the spirit of Borderlands weaponry without anyone exploding (probably). Stretching the definition of the word “pistol,”…
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ReviewsToysMagic Meets My Little Pony In Ponies: The Galloping
Friendship is Magic. Magic is Gathering. Why not both? Going on sale today at noon Eastern from Hasbro, Ponies: The Gathering is a collection of special limited edition cards and Ultra Pro playmats celebrating the series finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Magic: The Gathering’s November 2 Extra Life charity event. Sold…
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ReviewsMultiplatformThe Outer Worlds Will Rattle Your Idea Of A Perfect Planet
The very first quest in The Outer Worlds, Obsidian’s highly anticipated first-person RPG out October 25, asked me to make what felt like an impossible choice. On one side was a community of outsiders frustrated by corporate control. Their outpost was something like a worker’s paradise—they were well fed and mostly happy, surviving by relying…
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ReviewsHeadsetsI Don’t Think I Need A Wireless Switch Headset
Bundled with a first-of-its-kind USB-C 2.4GHz dongle that fits nicely in the bottom of the Switch, SteelSeries’ $99 Arctis 1 Wireless gaming headset is the first truly wireless headset for Nintendo’s latest console. It’s very nice. I just don’t see myself using it a lot, at least not on the Switch. The Arctis 1 Wirelessly…
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ReviewsPCReturn of the Obra Dinn: The Kotaku Review
“Realistically I think it’ll take me around half a year,” Lucas Pope wrote four and a half years ago about his game Return of the Obra Dinn, which he released today. What’s four extra years when the results are this brilliant? Meticulously constructed, from the stippled black-and-white graphics to the intricate, devious logic puzzle at…
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ReviewsMultiplatformThe Brilliant Outer Wilds Breaks Many Of Gaming’s Unwritten Rules
In the indie sci-fi exploration game Outer Wilds, you play as a four-eyed alien setting off in a rinky-dink rocket on an outer space mission. That’s all very exciting, at least until the sun explodes and demolishes your galaxy. That galactic destruction kicks off a mysterious time loop that brings you back to 22 minutes…
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ReviewsHeadsetsThese Headphones Change Sound Based On Where Your Head Is
The $330 HyperX Cloud Orbit S delivers some of the most impressive sound I’ve ever experienced in a gaming headset. It’s outfitted with Audeze’s 100mm planar magnetic drivers instead of conventional cone drivers but it’s the weird head tracking trick it does that’s impressed me the most. Yeah, the Cloud Orbit S has head tracking,…
By Mike Fahey
