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Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime: The Kotaku Review

By and large, love is better with other people. And when saving all the love in the universe means shooting a bunch of weirdo space aliens—as it does in Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime—you definitely want another person helping you. Out this week for Xbox One and Steam, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a…

By Evan Narcisse Published September 10, 2015

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Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX: The Kotaku Review

It’s quite likely your reaction to this image will dictate whether or not Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX is the sort of game you’d like to play. Musical notes, button prompts, anime girl with headphones—it’s immediately recognizable as a rhythm game, a genre that’s never reached the heights of popularity in the Western world that…

By Mike Fahey Published September 8, 2015

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: The Kotaku Review

There’s a cutscene, late in Metal Gear Solid V, that’s ostensibly serious but contains a musical interlude so awkward it sent me into giggle fits. A dozen missions later, there’s a harrowing sequence that ranks among the best video game scenes I’ve ever played. If you don’t know how to reconcile those two things, then,…

By Jason Schreier Published September 4, 2015

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Mad Max: The Kotaku Review

A little more than 10 years ago, not long after I quit my job to become a freelance writer, a colleague warned me that sometimes the work could be grueling and unrewarding. “I want to talk to you when you’re writing a story only for money,” he said. It took a decade, but I finally…

By Chris Suellentrop Published September 1, 2015

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Disney Infinity 3.0: The Kotaku Review

I played the first Disney Infinity. Hated it. More importantly, my kids hated it too, because it had too many menus, janky controls and some tedious mission design. Yet here we are, having skipped the sequel, for Dadtakupurposes playing our way through Disney Infinity 3.0. Or as most kids will know it, “the Star Wars…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2015

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Devil’s Third: The Kotaku Review

Probably the only thing that most people know about Devil’s Third is that it’s been in development for an unusually long time. Valhalla Game Studios’ debut started life as an Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game, announced in late 2011 by publisher THQ, which has since folded. Back then, it was still a game that…

Keza MacDonald Published August 26, 2015

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Satellite Reign: The Kotaku Review

I’d been led to believe that Satellite Reign was a modern-day Syndicate. Turns out it isn’t. Phew. I mean, I love Syndicate as much as the next person who loves Syndicate, in that I grew up thinking it was one of the best games of all time. I still find its filthy, cyberpunk art style…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2015

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Until Dawn: The Kotaku Review

My wife and I fell for one another while drinking crappy beer and watching horror movies of questionable quality. This last week has been a repeat of that experience, but rather than watching a movie, we’ve been cackling our way through a video game. Until Dawn is a new horror game developed by Supermassive Games…

By Patrick Klepek Published August 24, 2015

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Toy Soldiers War Chest: The Kotaku Review

Two of us at Kotaku—Luke and Brian—really dug the first Toy Soldiers game when it came out. And now, years later, they’re going to review the latest entry, Toy Soldiers: War Chest This is the first Toy Soldiers that is not a Microsoft exclusive. Published by Ubisoft, Toy Soldiers: War Chest is out on the…

Kotaku Staff Published August 21, 2015

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Velocity 2X: The Kotaku Review

Level 26 of Velocity 2X has taken over my day. I wish I could just let go and move on with my life, but I am literally ONE SECOND away from a gold Perfect medal. A SECOND. I have been chasing that second for about an hour, now. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK…

Keza MacDonald Published August 19, 2015

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Volume: The Kotaku Review

Thomas Was Alone, Mike Bithell’s charming 2010 platformer about the inner lives of hopping geometric shapes, was an experiment in the power of storytelling to triumph over abstraction. Volume, Bithell’s new game, is also a successful experiment in abstraction, although the narrative is realistic, or realistic science fiction. This time, it’s the interactions that are…

By Chris Suellentrop Published August 18, 2015

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Galak-Z: The Kotaku Review

One of the tool tips in Galak-Z says, “Death is just part of the circle of life.” That’s true. But, also: screw you, Galak-Z Galak-Z feels like how video games used to be. It looks simple but plays hard. You’ll keep telling yourself, “I know I can beat this freaking mission.” You can’t. Not at…

By Evan Narcisse Published August 11, 2015

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Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture: The Kotaku Review

The insult of “walking simulator,” lobbed at video games whose strongest elements are exploration, discovery, and story, misses its intended target. It conjures something more like Bennett Foddy’s QWOP. Then again, we all know what the term means by now: something like Gone Home that removes the elements of puzzling and physical challenge from an…

By Chris Suellentrop Published August 10, 2015

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Rocket League: The Kotaku Review

Luke and Patrick have been playing a lot of Rocket League, one of the surprise hits of the year so far. Rather than have them fight it out to review the game, we figured it was best to just let them both do it. Luke Plunkett: The thing that impresses me the most about Rocket…

Kotaku Staff Published August 3, 2015

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Rare Replay: The Kotaku Review

Rare games meant a lot to the people who played them, so a collection of 30 of (most) of their best works should mean a lot to children of the Spectrum ZX, the Nintendo 64 and even the Xbox 360 eras. Combined, they’re part of a new collection on the Xbox One that is one…

By Stephen Totilo Published August 3, 2015

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The First Attack on Titan Movie Stinks

Attack on Titan, of course, is a massively successful—and popular—manga and anime series. This live-action entry is the Japanese film industry’s latest attempt to parlay manga and anime into cinema. Parlay? Sorry, plunder would be more fitting here. The first live-action Attack on Titan film from director Shinji Higuchi is volume one in a two-part…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 3, 2015

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Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward Log Three: Dragon Quests

Last night I fell asleep in my computer chair. I vaguely remember my hand slipping from my desk, the mouse crashing to the floor. The fearsome face of a massive white dragon filled my screen, a dialog box at the bottom indicating he was saying something about how my quest to restore relations between his…

By Mike Fahey Published July 26, 2015

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New Justice League Cartoon Is the Bleakest DC Universe Movie Ever

The versions of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman who appear in the new animated Justice League film Gods and Monsters are dark. We’ve already seen glimpses, and the full film is indeed full of sick superhero moments. Hell, Superman calls Lois Lane a bitch. You should watch it. In the first ten minutes of Gods…

By Evan Narcisse Published July 23, 2015

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Snacktaku Judges Lay’s 2015 ‘Do Us A Flavor’ Potato Chip Finalists

Gyro. Biscuits and Gravy. Reuben Sandwich. Truffle Fries. The creator of one of these four potato chip flavors will be the million dollar winner of Lay’s annual “Do Us A Flavor” contest. Judging from the past two years, it will not be the one I pick. As a certified (probably) snackologist, the week that Frito-Lay…

By Mike Fahey Published July 18, 2015

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Tetris: The Kotaku Review

Like the delightful and oppressive mobile-game galaxy that it summoned, Tetris is both seductive and dispiriting. Alexey Pajitnov’s falling-block puzzler captures the pleasure and the vacuousness of virtual labor. Each game of Tetris contains an interactive “Ozymandias,” a fruitless quest to build something that will outlast the lone and level sands. Look on my tetrominoes,…

By Chris Suellentrop Published July 16, 2015