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Hori Racing Wheel For Xbox One: The Kotaku Review
Pursuing my newfound love of racing wheels has been an expensive endeavor—so far I’ve played with a $400 Mad Catzwheel and a $400 Thrustmaster wheel. Ringing up at a modest $90, the Hori Racing Wheel for the Xbox One provides excellent motivation for spending a lot more. What It Is TheHori Racing Wheel is the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2015 -
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Shadow Of Mordor: The Bright Lord: The Kotaku Review
The Bright Lord, Shadow of Mordor‘s new DLC campaign, promises an epic showdown with Lord of the Rings head honcho Sauron. It was designed in part to address a common fan complaint about the original game’s anticlimactic ending. But while it does give players a chance to fight Sauron, I’d hardly call it an epic…
By Yannick LeJacq Published February 24, 2015 -
ReviewsAn Endless Runner Without All The Crap
Years of iteration and mainstream popularity have taken their toll on the endless runner genre, rendering it tired and worn despite its young age. Endless snowboarder Alto’s Adventure defies that notion, stripping away layers of gaudy mobile paint to rediscover the genre’s elegant core. The average endless runner can be a great deal of fun,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 23, 2015 -
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The Order: 1886: The Kotaku Review
Do you like movies? Do you like video games? If you answered “yes” to either of those questions, you should probably skip The Order: 1886 The PlayStation 4’s newest action game is a dull and lumbering thing. It’s a brief, drab adventure starring a group of characters who all seem to dislike their lives and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 19, 2015 -
ReviewsEvolve: The Kotaku Review
I’ve been playing a lot of Evolve over the last week and the questions I hear are all the same: Are you tired of this game yet? Is it really repetitive? The answer to each is, simply, no and yes, respectively. Some of you will hate this game. You’ll think its rote nature too boring…
By Tina Amini Published February 17, 2015 -
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The New 3DS XL Is Nice, But Not A Must-Have Yet
For a couple of years we at Kotaku have deemed Nintendo’s 3DS as an essential piece of gaming hardware. And for decades, new iterations of Nintendo hardware have immediately rendered older units obsolete. Things are different this time around. Get it if you don’t have one. We still think you should have a 3DS in…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 13, 2015 -
Reviewseden*: The Kotaku Review
This is the story of the end of the world and the woman who saved humanity. One day, humanity learned the Earth was doomed—that an interplanetary object would collide with our planet, destroying its capability to support life. Humanity would have only 100 years to escape the planet and venture out into the stars. To…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published February 13, 2015 -
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Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate: The Kotaku Review
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate has thus far been 60 hours of The Adventures of Me and My Cat. We’ve had some great times. Once, my cat got stuck under the claws of a Rathian—your average fire-breathing dragon—and I had to whack it in the head with a hammer to get it off. Another time my…
Keza MacDonald Published February 12, 2015 -
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Kingston HyperX Cloud II Gaming Headset: The Kotaku Review
Last year the folks at memory and storage company Kingston Technologies showed the world theyknew a thing or two about putting together a good gaming headset. Now they’re back with the HyperX Cloud II, adding virtual 7.1 surround sound to an already successful piece of hardware. What It Is The HyperX Cloud II gaming headset…
By Mike Fahey Published February 4, 2015 -
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Dying Light: The Kotaku Review
I was almost ten hours into Dying Light before I got my hands on a gun. It was an assault rifle, and I had to kill a man for it. Doing so wasn’t pretty, nor was it easy. You begin Dying Light in a nearly identical position to the one you’re in at the beginning…
By Yannick LeJacq Published February 3, 2015 -
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Two Captain America Figures are Better than One
Captain America: The Winter Soldier was one of my favorite movies from last year, so when I learned that Hong Kong collectible toy maker Hot Toys was releasing a Captain America figure from the movie, only one word came to mind: Gimme. The new figure from Hot Toys comes with not only Cap in his…
By Toshi Nakamura Published January 29, 2015 -
ReviewsSaints Row: Gat Out Of Hell: The Kotaku Review
“Is that all hell’s got?” Johnny Gat, main character of Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell, would often taunt as I mowed down Satan’s demonic hordes. As the game went on, I couldn’t help but find myself asking the same question. It’s not that Gat Out Of Hell is particularly bad in the grand scheme…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 19, 2015 -
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Cute Dota Characters Make for a So-So Game
China seems to have a big thing for Warcraft. World of Warcraft is still going strong, and now one of China’s best mobile games, Dota Legend, is based off the original Defense of the Ancients mod. Released in February 2014, Dota Legend has climbed and at times dominated China’s mobile app charts. According to certain…
By Eric Jou Published January 16, 2015 -
ReviewsLittlewitch Romanesque: The Kotaku Review
Can you turn two young girls into master wizards in just three years? Girlish Grimoire: Littlewitch Romanesque is set in a world where magic is in decline. A thousand years before the start of the game, wizards lived in magical towers and wielded god-like magical powers. Now, wizards are just another guild—more concerned with money…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published January 13, 2015 -
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Destiny Review Update: Four Months Later
Four months into its existence, Destiny is a better, more frustrating, more expansive—and ultimately, expensive—game than it was at launch. It’s also very different, because after months of tweaks, it has become clearer than ever who we’re really playing against: the people who made it. The player’s greatest adversary in Destiny isn’t an alien warlord…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 7, 2015 -
ReviewsJapan Crate Snack Subscription Service Revisted: Three Months Later
Back in October I tried out Japan Crate, a service that ships boxes of mysterious Japanese snacks to your door once a month. I liked it, mostly, but you don’t really know a subscription service until you’ve subscribed for a bit, so I went two more months. Japan Crate, like many newish business with the…
By Mike Fahey Published January 4, 2015 -
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Nendoroid Pokémon Trainer Red: The Kotaku Review
I’ve somehow managed to avoid purchasing one of Japan’s Good Smile Company’s big-headed Nendoroid figures, despite my penchant for all things ridiculously cute. Then the North American Pokémon Center shop started selling the once Japan exclusive Red figure. Now I am doomed. I’ve long admired the Nendoroid line, but I knew damn well what would…
By Mike Fahey Published December 22, 2014 -
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The Most Ridiculous PC Monitor I Have Ever Used
I got not one, but two monitors from LG for review last week. One was a specialised gaming monitor. The other was a lot more fun. The gaming monitor, the LG 24GM77 (catchy!), made a lot of boasts, and included a lot of “gaming” features like promises to reduce response time, but I’ll be honest,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 16, 2014