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ReviewsVolta V Wooden PC Review: An Heirloom Gaming Machine
I’ve spent the past few weeks gaming, working and pretending to work on theVolta V, the world’s first commercially-produced handcrafted wooden computer. It feels like it’s part of the family. There was a time when most of our electronic entertainment equipment was either made of wood or, at the very least, stylized to look as…
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ReviewsMario Kart 8 Deluxe: The Kotaku Review
Mario Kart 8 is an excellent game. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is even better. Normally in a situation where a game we’ve reviewed in the past gets an updated version on a new console, we’d simply republish the original review with some notes on any significant differences. The Mario Kart 8 situation is a little…
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ReviewsRazer Blackwidow Chroma V2 Yellow Review: More Gaming, Less Typing
With the debut of Razer’s new linear yellow keyboard switches, one of the gaming-est keyboards going gets a lot gamier. It’s a board for playing, not so much for typing. Razer’s Blackwidow line has been carving out spots in best mechanical gaming keyboard lists for years now. And why not? It’s got a striking look,…
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What Remains Of Edith Finch: The Kotaku Review
What Remains of Edith Finch is a story about family, the nature of life, and the unknowability of mortality. In the end, whatever flaws Edith Finch may have are outshined by its imagination, wonder, and the sincerity with which it approaches these topics. You play as Edith, the last member of the Finch family, returning…
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AMD Radeon RX 570 And RX 580 Review: A Little Extra Power Goes A Long Way
While enthusiasts eagerly await to coming of the next-generation of high-end Radeon cards, AMD shores up its starting lineup with the RX 500 series, featuring small but significant improvements over last year’s RX 470 and RX 480 graphics cards. 2016 was a busy year for the video card business, with both major players introducing their…
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ReviewsHyperX Alloy FPS Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review: A Happy Minimum
This is the HyperX Alloy FPS, a mechanical gaming keyboard. It consists of a steel frame, a printed circuit board, a plastic base, 104 Cherry MX Brown switches with red LEDs and the corresponding keycaps. It doesn’t do a lot, but it does what it’s made to do very well. The HyperX Alloy FPS mechanical…
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ReviewsUnicomp Ultra Classic Keyboard Review: The Good Old Keys
In 1984 IBM introduced the legendary Model M, a beast of a mechanical keyboard that utilized a unique buckling spring key switch to make sweet love to the user’s fingers, along with a lot of noise. Unicomp’s Ultra Classic is the Model M’s direct descendant, and it’s almost as good as the original. If you’ve…
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ReviewsNvidia Geforce GTX 1080 Ti Review: Comfortably 4K
Last year Nvidia launched its Pascal gaming line with the GTX 1080, bringing capable 4K PC gaming to the masses. The new Geforce GTX 1080 Ti upgrades that “capable” to “comfortable.” The original GTX 1080 is an excellent graphics card that hits at least 30 frames per second on most contemporary PC games, especially when…
By Mike Fahey
