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ReviewsPokken Tournament: The Kotaku Review
If you’ve ever wished your Pokemon battles could be more exciting than a pair of Pokemon taking turns making battle animations at each other, Pokken Tournament is your game. This post originally appeared 3/15/16. Basic Pokemon battles haven’t evolved much over the past two decades. The combatants have gotten prettier, the attack animations more elaborate,…
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ReviewsPlants 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…
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ReviewsBurger 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…
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ReviewsDigimon 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…
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ReviewsBlade & 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…
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ReviewsBlade & 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…
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