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ReviewsNier: Automata: The Kotaku Review
Nier: Automata begins as a scrolling shooter. Then it’s a twin-stick shooter, a third-person action RPG and a 2.5D platformer. It’s equal parts comedy and tragedy. It’s a game that’s whatever it needs to be at any particular moment to be completely amazing. There’s nothing simple about Nier: Automata, but I will attempt to simplify.…
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Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming Laptop Review: It Plays Games
Some gaming laptops are legendary electronic beasts, brimming with the latest in powerful mobile computing tech, built to perform and priced slightly beyond that. Then there is the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 gaming laptop. You want to play games? It can do that. Just don’t go crazy. I’ve reviewed a lot of gaming laptops in…
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ReviewsClutch Chairz Throttle Review: The Sports Car Of Supersized Gaming Chairs
Just because you are a bigger-than-normal person doesn’t mean you can’t get a gaming chair that looks and feels like you salvaged it from a wrecked race car. Clutch Chairz’ Throttle gaming chair is rolling, butt-gripping proof. Unlike many products that toss the word “gaming” in front of an everyday thing in order to appeal…
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For Honor: The Kotaku Review
I’ve chopped, smashed, and stabbed more medieval bodies in the past few days than I can count. I’ve also been cut open, impaled, and beheaded more times than I care to admit. Kill and be killed—that’s the proposition at the heart of For Honor, a game in which burly men and women swing crafted hunks…
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ReviewsWatching Someone Else Play Resident Evil 7 On YouTube: The Kotaku Review
Despite having a taste for horror movies and novels, horror video games freak me the hell out. Still, I was curious about Resident Evil 7’s promise of a Southern Gothic zombie game. Like millions of other scaredy cats out there, I decided to watch it on YouTube instead of playing it. Horror games are huge…
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ReviewsTales Of Berseria: The Kotaku Review
Bandai Namco’s Tales action role-playing series is normally pretty formulaic—a plucky group of colorful heroes joins together to save the world from some dire threat. Tales of Berseria’s protagonist just really wants to murder a guy, and her companions are happy to help. The 16th main Tales game begins innocently enough. Velvet Crowe and her…
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Thrustmaster T.16000M FCS Flight Pack Review: PC Aviation Essentials
Nothing makes a flight or space sim really sing like a hands-on throttle and stick (HOTAS) setup. Thrustmaster’s $200 T.1600M FCS Flight Pack combines joystick, throttle and rudder pedals in one lovely entry-level package. Between the rise of virtual reality and an expanding audience of people with incredibly good taste in game genres, space sims…
By Mike Fahey
