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Reviews
15 Flavors of Japanese Kit Kats: The Snacktaku Review
This weekend I went on a magical flavor journey across the Pacific, to a land where what Americans deem worthy of snackhood is laughably tame. This weekend I tasted 15 different varieties of Japanese Kit Kats, and I am forever changed by the experience. Snacktaku fans will remember the Japanese Kit Kats as one of…
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ReviewsMobile Gaming’s Platforming Hero Returns — One Part Mario, One Part Sonic
In 2011 SilverTree Media introduced Cordy, a robotic platforming hero for the smartphone age. While other developers struggled with implementing traditional games using touchscreen controls, Cordy played as perfectly as the best console platformers, with more personality than most. Now Cordy 2 has arrived, and it’s easily twice as good as the original. Cordy is…
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ReviewsThe Best Thing About This Dragon Breeding Game is Definitely the Vomit
It’s not the hand-animated visuals, crafted by artists whose resumes include My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Atomic Betty. It’s not the challenge of matching each dragon with their favorite treasures, collecting and combining items to create more potent pieces. No, it’s definitely the vomiting, followed closely by the rainbow pooping. East Side Games’…
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ReviewsDead Space 3: The Kotaku Review
I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but…. Dead Space 3 is boring. Let’s rewind a bit. In 2008 we were graced with EA’s first Dead Space title. This was a claustrophobic horror game, filled with mystery and an obviously grander, more complex universe than we, as players during that first go, could comprehend.…
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Unreal — Candy Unjunked: The Snacktaku Review
Candy is dandy, but it’s also not very good for you. It’s filled with artificial flavors, preservatives, hormones, genetically modified organisms (yum!), hydrogenated oils and corn syrup. That’s why it’s called junk food. The mission of Unreal is to remove the junk from junk food without removing the taste. That’s a rather tall order. I’d…
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My Perfect World is Populated By Pixel People
A game designer is a combination of a programmer and an artist. A preacher is a philosopher and a dreamer combined. Meld a magician and a scientist and you have a wizard. This is how the world works in LambdaMu Games’ Pixel People—simple, elegant and endlessly entertaining. The planet Earth is gone, the sole remaining…
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ReviewsThe Cave: The Kotaku Review
Have you ever had a recurring dream? And each time that dream revisits your slumber, some small detail has changed? It’s the same dream, but it somehow feels unfamiliar again. That’s sort of what it feels like to play The Cave, Double Fine’s latest cartoon-like adventure. You’ll walk through the same hallways, climb the same…
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No Sugar Added Fudgsicle: The Snacktaku Review
Every once in a while I like to take a break from the calorie-rich, salt-infused, flavor-coated Snacktaku reviews to focus on lighter fare, if only to repress the popular notion that my entire diet consists of nothing but complete and utter crap. As much as we enjoy food dipped in melted cheese and fried in…
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ReviewsFinal Fantasy: All the Bravest is $46 of In-App Purchases Looking for a Game
If you’re looking for a mildly interactive trip through the history of the Final Fantasy franchise and don’t mind shelling out a little more than $50 for the complete experience, Final Fantasy: All the Bravest might be a justifiable purchase. If you’re just in it for the gameplay you can save a lot of time…
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The World’s Most Popular Endless Runner Returns to Show the Clones How It’s Done
The success of Temple Run, a simple 3D endless runner created by the husband and wife team of Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova, has been nothing short of astounding. Since its 2011 release the game has grown into a casual gaming phenomenon, as definitive a mobile entertainment experience as Angry Birds or more Angry Birds…
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Spam: The Snacktaku Review
Lovely Spam. Wonderful Spam. Monty Python’s classic sketch cast Hormel’s combination of pork shoulder and ham meat as an inescapable food sensation. While nerd culture has made such a joke of Spam that it’s become synonymous with a flood of unwanted information, in many parts of the world the skit is more documentary than parody.…
By Mike Fahey
