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Star Wars: Rebellion: The Kotaku Review

Most Star Wars games put you in command of a few brave heroes of the galactic struggle. Star Wars: Rebellion, a new board game from Fantasy Flight, puts you in command of the whole damn war. Veteran PC gamers may remember that in 1998 Lucasarts released a strategy game called Star Wars: Rebellion, which let…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2016

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Corsair Void USB Surround Headset Review: Solid Audio, Bummer Microphone

Corsair’s “Void” USB gaming headphones are not actually a black hole of nothingness. They’re just a pair of pretty good headphones; staring into them yields very little. The headset acts as a wired middle-point in Corsair’s line of Void gaming headphones, above their plain wired stereo headphones and below the wireless Void RGB 7.1. The…

By Kirk Hamilton Published March 7, 2016

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Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2: The Kotaku Review

Remember the early days of online multiplayer shooters, when most players were too busy having fun to worry about things like stats or other players’ performance or who your mother may or may not have slept with? Garden Warfare 2 remembers. In 2014 EA and Popcap games made a competitive online shooter for consoles and…

By Mike Fahey Published March 2, 2016

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The Flame In The Flood: The Kotaku Review

I used to live on a boat. It was a converted World War 2 rescue vessel that sat in an industrial canal, docked at the end of a lot owned by an Irish mobster and his son. I lived a strange little existence there, in a world with its own characters, customs, and myths. Even…

By Riley MacLeod Published March 1, 2016

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Far Cry Primal: The Kotaku Review

Far Cry Primal is frequently violent and occasionally, unexpectedly sweet. The caveman action game is an excellent concept best experienced by people who haven’t been playing every entry in Far Cry, another of gaming’s perpetual franchises. It’s an iteration. It’s a tweak. It’s another reprise of 2012’s Far Cry 3 formula of first-person open-world hunting…

By Stephen Totilo Published February 29, 2016

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Superhot: The Kotaku Review

Some games only need a single good idea to work. For example: Superhot, a punishing first-person shooter in which time only moves when you move. It’s a single, good idea. And it works. Each of Superhot’s twenty-odd levels recreates an archetypal action-movie setpiece: The office raid, the drug deal gone wrong, the hallway brawl, the…

By Kirk Hamilton Published February 25, 2016

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Burger King Makes Hot Dogs Now, And They’re Fine I Guess, Whatever

Looking to stay competitive with gas stations, baseball stadiums and guys with dirty food carts, Burger King today became the biggest restaurant-based seller of hot dogs in the nation. But who goes to a restaurant for a regular hot dog? Aside from me, I mean. I am a huge fan of the sorry sausages that…

By Mike Fahey Published February 23, 2016

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Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth: The Kotaku Review

Cyber Sleuth is the most fun I’ve had with Digimon in a long time, though my idea of ‘fun with Digimon’ is quite specific. It’s been nearly 19 years since Bandai launched Digital Monster toys, a more ‘masculine’ counterpart to the wildly popular Tamagotchi. In 1999 we met the DigiDestined in Digimon Adventure, the first…

By Mike Fahey Published February 23, 2016

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Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright and Conquest: The Kotaku Review

Fire Emblem Fates is a soap opera strategy game. You’ll spend as much time agonizing over battlefield tactics as you will wondering which characters should, like, totally hook up. Like 2013’s Fire Emblem: Awakening, Fates is a tactical role-playing game that allows players to control an army of fantasy chess pieces. Each piece has its…

By Patricia Hernandez Published February 23, 2016

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Street Fighter V: The Kotaku Review

Playing Street Fighter V at launch feels like being at a construction site where the foundation is being poured. The structure we’ll eventually all recognize isn’t there yet. But if the foundation is cracked or uneven, that future architecture won’t work as intended. So far, the bedrock of Street Fighter’s evolution feels mostly solid, if…

By Evan Narcisse Published February 16, 2016

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Dying Light: The Following: The Kotaku Review

I am pleased to report that in Dying Light: The Following, you can still dropkick a zombie off a cliff and into the sea. You also get to drive a car. Iliked last year’s Dying Light, so I was predisposed to like The Following. And I do like The Following; I like it even more…

By Kirk Hamilton Published February 9, 2016

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Firewatch: The Kotaku Review

Firewatch is a very lonely video game that’s all about people. Set in 1989, you play as Henry, aka Hank, a guy who has had a pretty shitty time of things lately, and who decides that a Summer job in a Wyoming national park is just the thing he needs to take his mind off…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2016

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Unravel: The Kotaku Review

Unravel, which stars a little red knitted character called Yarny, is unusually personal. It is an intimate game, tied to a certain place and time, and it very obviously means something to the people who made it. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Yarny is based on an actual doll that creative director Martin…

Keza MacDonald Published February 8, 2016

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Blade & Soul MMO Log Two: Grinding To A Halt

It’s been a little over three weeks since I started playing NCsoft’s martial arts MMO import, and my desire to reach the level cap has lessened considerably. Mind the aspect ratio of the video, I was playing on an ultra wide screen. Things were going so well in my firstBlade & Soul MMO log. I…

By Mike Fahey Published February 7, 2016

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XCOM 2: The Kotaku Review

'What astounds me about XCOM 2 is how often it’s not bullshit'

By Nathan Grayson Published February 6, 2016

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Rise of the Tomb Raider: The Kotaku Review

When we last saw Lara Croft, she was growing out of being a victim. A victim of fate, of other people’s aggression, of her own uninspired previous playable incarnations. She’s still growing, but she’s different now. [This review originally ran on 11/9/2015. We’re bumping it up because the PC version just came out. We’ve also…

By Evan Narcisse Published January 29, 2016

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Blade & Soul MMO Log One: I Know Kung Fu

Technically I know advanced assassination techniques, but it’s all a sort of Kung Fu as far as NCsoft’s latest Korean import is concerned. Check out my impressions after one week of that sort of fighting—you know, the one everyone is doing. As with any massively multiplayer online role-playing game, we like to put between two…

By Mike Fahey Published January 27, 2016

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LEGO Marvel’s Avengers: The Kotaku Review

As a movie-based LEGO game, LEGO Marvel’s Avengers doesn’t go far off script. As a Marvel Comics fan service vehicle it’s absolutely nuts. If you’re new to licensed LEGO action-adventure games both movie-based and otherwise, then congratulations—you’ve somehow managed not to play any of the 17 games released prior to LEGO Marvel’s Avengers. These include:…

By Mike Fahey Published January 27, 2016

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Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam: The Kotaku Review

When you think of sensational action sequences and explosive setpieces, your mind may jump to big-budget productions like Uncharted or Tomb Raider. Allow me to present a dark horse contender: the unassuming Mario & Luigi series, with its goofy animations and sight gags, which has carved out its own healthy niche in the realm of…

By Jason Schreier Published January 25, 2016

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Acer Predator 17 Gaming Laptop: The Kotaku Review

The 17-inch Predator gaming laptop is one of several new black-and-red gaming-focused products aimed at getting gamers to utter the words “Acer” and “badass” in the same breath. Let’s see if that trick works. Acer is not a brand I normally associate with gaming, which is strange considering I’ve been staring at an Acer monitor…

By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2016