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Reviews
High-Tech Knights Are LEGO’s Best New Idea In Ages
Transforming robot horses. Cybernetic demons. A king piloting a mech. LEGO’s Nexo Knights line has launched, and it’s the best. Announced back in October of last year, LEGO’s new Nexo Knights line officially joined the animalistic warriors of Chima and the spinning ninjas of Ninjago on store shelves on January first. Slated to be one…
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ReviewsThe PlayStation 4 Universal Media Remote Gets The Job Done
Tired of controlling Netflix and Hulu on your PlayStation 4 with an unwieldy game controller? Probably not, but it wouldn’t hurt to have a remote around, like this official one. It has buttons that make the PS4 and other devices do things. Crafted for Sony by the fine folks at PDP, the playStation 4 Universal…
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Reviews
Fruit Cake: The Snacktaku Review
“It smells like old people,” my wife said as I handed her a slice hacked from the Walmart-made fruit cake ring. “Does it taste like old people?” I asked. She took a bite. “No.” I stared accusingly. “How do you know what old people taste like?” Originally posted December 24, 2012. I understand where she…
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ReviewsSnacktaku Decks Its Mouth With Peppermint Oreos
When you’re a massive international snack company, there’s no better way to celebrate the holidays than pumping your signature cookie filling with red food coloring and peppermint oil. Let’s eat some of that. The holidays are upon us, and the stores are packed with festive versions of regular products that we normally wouldn’t buy but…
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ReviewsHands On With Woobots, Wooden Robots In Disguise
Last week I wrote about Woobots, the wooden robotsthat transform into wooden vehicles, currently the focus of a successful Kickstarter campaign. This week I play with them. I won’t waste too much time going over the basics—Woobots are a series of transforming robot toys crafted out of wood. The joints, as in most of today’s…
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Call Of Duty: Black Ops III: The Kotaku Review
There are too many Call of Duty games. Let me clarify that statement: There are too many Call of Duty games in Call of Duty: Black Ops III. In my initial impressions of the single-player experience of the latest installment of Activision’s annual military shooter series, I celebrated what Treyarch had achieved with an extra…
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ReviewsSnacktaku Senses Great Fear In Kraft’s Star Wars Macaroni & Cheese
With The Force Awakens fever growing with each passing day, no where is safe from Star Wars merchandising—not even the pasta dish people usually make because they’ve too little time or money to eat real food. I kid Kraft Macaroni & Cheese (or Kraft Dinner in Canada), though really I don’t. Despite its general tastiness…
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ReviewsThe Snacktaku Caramel Apple Halloween Spooktacular
As snackers around the world prepare for one of the most important holidays of the year—the day after Halloween—Snacktaku celebrates the only flavor combination powerful enough to knock pumpkin spice off the fall charts. While children and sexy versions of non-sexy things around the world may revel in pseudo=pagan ritual on October 31, snack aficionados…
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Reviews
Halo 5: Guardians: The Kotaku Review
Halo 5: Guardians is the first time I haven’t loved a Halo game. Though, thankfully, the latest chapter in the sci-fi shooter universe has a few things going for it. Development studio 343’s second Halo game since taking on the mantle of responsibility from Bungie three years ago tries to tell the story of a…
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ReviewsSnacktaku Eats Dried Spam Snacks So You Don’t Have To
Not content with selling tins of meat/gelatin hybrid, Hormel is now rolling out new dried Spam Snacks to select U.S. markets, including the Southeast. Guess where I am? If you said oily hell, you’re pretty close. As much flack as I give the world’s most popular meat in a can, Spam and I developed a…
By Mike Fahey
