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Reviews
Tom Clancy’s The Division: The Kotaku Review
Tom Clancy’s The Division is exciting enough that I don’t mind how dull it can sometimes be. It’s fun enough that I can usually live with spending most of my time shooting virtual poor people. It’s well enough made that I don’t mind how clumsy and unbalanced it often is. The Division is a shared-world,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 22, 2016 -
ReviewsDay of the Tentacle Remastered: The Kotaku Review
For nearly 23 years, Day of the Tentacle has been resoundingly praised as one of the greatest adventure games of all time, a shining example of point-and-click glory. Two decades later, how does it hold up? Pretty damn well, it turns out. Even without the graphical overhaul offered in Day of the Tentacle Remastered, which…
By Jason Schreier Published March 22, 2016 -
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,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2016 -
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Hitman Episode One: The Kotaku Review
I’ve often noticed a conflict between the way games tell me I’m a master assassin/spy/soldier and the more bumbling, experimental way that I play. One moment I’m panicking and shooting the wrong person in the face, the next I’m coolly walking away as a chandelier drops on a target behind me. The new Hitman, the…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 11, 2016 -
ReviewsBoard Games
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 -
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…
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 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published February 23, 2016 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published February 23, 2016 -
ReviewsFire 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 -
ReviewsStreet 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 -
ReviewsFirewatch: 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 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published February 7, 2016 -
ReviewsXCOM 2: The Kotaku Review
'What astounds me about XCOM 2 is how often it’s not bullshit'
By Nathan Grayson Published February 6, 2016
