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ReviewsAverMedia Live Gamer Portable Video Capture Box: The Kotaku Review
Late last year I had a chance to check out the Live Gamer HD, an easy-to-use video capture card from AverMedia that allowed me to capture 1080p video from just about any HDMI source using a simple pass-through connection. It was the easiest hardware solution for capturing and streaming game footage I’d come across. I…
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ReviewsIt’s Like Pokemon, Only With Cats and Baked Goods
I do not understand why I am playing this, so here’s a kitten with a steamed bun on its head. Bread Kittens is one of those free games I don’t remember downloading but suddenly find myself playing more than I probably should. Set in the world of Catlandia, an evil pet food corporation is brainwashing…
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ReviewsGraze.com Healthy Snack Delivery: The Snacktaku Review
Each week I set aside some of my health for the sake of bringing Kotaku readers my honest, unbiased opinion about on some of the most horrible snack foods the world has to offer, and each week I get the same questions. “Don’t you ever review anything healthy?” “How are you not dead yet?” Folks…
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ReviewsSometimes It’s the Simple Things That Get Me
There are times I want to explore near photo-realistic ancient temples, battling terrifying enemies with the aid of powerful magical artifacts. I have moments where all I want to do is spend hours building armies, evaluating troop strength and capabilities and devising strategies to take advantage of my findings. Sometimes I just want to find…
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ReviewsThis Is The Prettiest Game On iTunes, But Looks Aren’t Everything
I stare at the glorious handcrafted world of Blitz Games’ Paper Titans for hours, lazily rotating each colorfully cobbled-together stage. I would gladly take a large stack of proto-form Titans, popping them out of their paper prisons and folding them to life with a flick of my finger. This striking setting cries out for interaction…
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ReviewsA 30-Year-Old Fighting Fantasy Comes To Life In My Hands
I was a little over 13 when I read the first book in UK game designer Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! series of Fighting Fantasy books. Enhancing the page-turning elements of the Choose Your Own Adventure books with pen-and-paper role-playing game mechanics, the series instilled in me a voracious appetite for interactive fiction. Twenty-seven years later the…
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ReviewsFar Cry 3: Blood Dragon: The Kotaku Review
There is joy in stupidity. In an age where the search for deeper meaning in our interactive entertainment pursuits begins after the first trailer — where more thought goes into post-game critical analysis than development — a game that bears its shallow soul for all to see is a blessing. “The game is stupid,” Far…
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ReviewsPizza Hut’s Crazy Cheesy Crust Pizza: The Snacktaku Review
For years, pizza scientists at delivery powerhouse Pizza Hut have been chumming international waters with the most bizarre combinations of dough, sauce, cheese and stuff. They’ve made pizza with hot dogs in the crust. Fish sticks and prawns. Cheeseburgers. Some of these magnificent creations have made it as far as Canada, but to this day…
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ReviewsDigital Storm’s Latest Gaming PCs Are Almost As Cheap As DIY
Every time I post a review of a boutique gaming PC, someone in the comments has to mention that they could build a similar machine themselves for less money. That’s still true for Digital Storm’s newly-launched Vanquish line of gaming PCs, but it’s a narrow truth — we’re talking $20 to $60 narrow. Digital Storm’s…
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ReviewsDragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen: The Kotaku Review
Oh, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen. I want to like you. I really, really do. On paper, I should. On paper you and I should be thick as thieves. So why, please tell me why, I don’t like you? Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is an expanded, budget re-release of the original game which, you might recall,…
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ReviewsDead Island: Riptide: The Kotaku Review
There are so many things so wrong with Dead Island: Riptide that I’m not even sure where to begin. Sometimes you have to dig and climb your way through a game before the payoff hits. If you’ve ever played a lengthy RPG, this might be a familiar feeling to you. In the end, you won’t…
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ReviewsInjustice: Gods Among Us: The Kotaku Review
The greatest comic book battles aren’t between heroes and villains. You can catch Batman punching out the Joker’s magically regenerating teeth any day, but the Caped Crusader versus Green Lantern, or Superman, or Raven “We Need More Women in the Game” Roth? That’s something special, even if the excuses for those battles are completely ridiculous.…
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ReviewsStay Alight Takes Me to a Dark Place
Try as they might, the silly, bug-eyed pollution monsters populating Stay Alight do absolutely nothing to lessen the macabre, melancholy mood of a world littered with forgotten toys and the broken bodies of those that came before. Perhaps I’m just far too used to my trajectory puzzles being cute and cuddly, thanks to Angry Birds…
By Mike Fahey
