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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

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Xidax X-8 Custom Gaming PC: The Kotaku Review

When the folks at Xidax asked if I wanted to review one of its gaming rigs, I asked them for “something impressive.” So they sent a system with two Nvidia Titan X graphics cards. Also, two Blu-ray burners. I’d not heard much about Utah-based Xidax prior to the company contacting me late last year regarding…

By Mike Fahey Published July 13, 2015

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Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward Log Two: Identity Crisis

I’d love to be able to report this week that I’ve reached the new level cap and experienced some of the high-end content Final Fantasy XIV’s first expansion has to offer, but first I need to figure out which version of my character I want to be. If Heavensward had introduced its three new adventuring…

By Mike Fahey Published July 12, 2015

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Snacktaku Nibbles On Taco Bell’s Fried Cap’n Crunch Balls

When Taco Bell initially announced its cream-filled Cap’n Crunch Delights, Icompared them to testicles. Now that I have had them in my mouth I must amend that comparison to read “delicious testicles.” Or maybe just toss out the word “testicles” altogether. I’m not a food marketer, I am a snackologist, so it’s not my job…

By Mike Fahey Published July 3, 2015

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Batman: Arkham Knight: The Kotaku Review

If you are so into the Arkham games that you are going to be wounded by learning anything at all about Batman: Arkham Knight—what characters may or may not be in it, for example—please don’t read this review. Go play the game! You will like it, mostly. The spoilers in this review are minor, in…

By Chris Suellentrop Published June 22, 2015

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Pizza Hut’s Hot Dog Bites Crust Pizza: The Snacktaku Review

At some point it dawned on Pizza Hut executives that sometimes people don’t want to eat pizza. Affixing foods people might want to eat more than pizza—say, hot dog bites—is not the most elegant solution. After stints in several other countries, the Hot Dog Bites crust pizza from Pizza Hut finally landed on U.S. soil…

By Mike Fahey Published June 19, 2015

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Massive Chalice: The Kotaku Review

If you want to understand Massive Chalice, you need to understand XCOM I don’t mean that lightly. Double Fine’s Massive Chalice has been hugely influenced by Julian Gallop’s seminal 1994 strategy game. It exists as its own game in as much as it has a different name, and you’re controlling people with bows instead of…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 9, 2015

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Heroes Of The Storm: The Kotaku Review

“We’re closing the gap,” the Nova standing next to me shouted through her radio. “Keep your eyes on the prize!” But it was only the character saying that. The person playing Nova had already accepted defeat. We all had. Except for the computer. “It’s over,” one of my teammates typed a moment after Nova tried…

By Yannick LeJacq Published June 4, 2015