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Razer Sabertooth Elite Xbox 360 Controller: The Kotaku Review
In 2010 Razer introduced the Onza, an Xbox 360 controller with enough extra bells and whistles to get it banned from Major League Gaming tournament play. Expect the same treatment for the Sabertooth, a refinement of the Onza that adds even more bells while removing select whistles. It’s not about cheating; it’s about versatility. When…
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AVADirect Mini Gaming PC: The Kotaku Review
There are dozens of places to purchase a custom gaming PC on the internet. Companies with colorful websites with flash-animated front pages and rotating images showing off their latest products in the best possible light. Then there’s AVADirect, a custom PC builder on the outskirts of Cleveland with a website that looks like it was…
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McDonald’s McRib: The Limited Time Only Snacktaku Review
It’s finally time—time for McDonald’s menus across the country to run red with pale pork shoulder drenched in barbecue sauce. The Jesus of fast food has returned, as foretold by prophecy and marketing. Just as Christianity was offered as an alternative to the pagan ways of ancient people, so was the McRib offered as an…
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Old Fashioned Pecan Roll: The Snacktaku Review
You might not remember the fifth time you had a Hershey’s Kiss or the eighth time you bit into a Twinkie, but there’s a 50 percent chance you remember every Old Fashioned Pecan Log you’ve ever eaten. That’s because there are only two spots in the entire space-time continuum where one purchases and consumes a…
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Pringles Pumpkin Spice, Cinnamon Sugar and White Chocolate Peppermint: The Snacktaku Review
What do the holidays taste like to you? Is it the dark and playful taste of chocolate and peppermint? The warm, inviting sweetness of cinnamon and sugar? Or maybe it’s pumpkin spice, a traditional baked favorite that’s made a big splash in the snack game lately? Whatever your answer might be, it’s sure as hell…
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Mass Effect 3: Omega: The Kotaku Review
There was something missing, in Mass Effect 3. The game was filled with a hundred tiny details that paid homage to all the choices and deliberations I’d made in two previous games, and yet one thing sat unfinished. Aria T’Loak sat on the Citadel for all of Shepard’s last crusade, riding out the end of…
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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Number One: The Kotaku Comic Book Review
The first issue of a comic book based on an animated series is not normally cause for excitement. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is no regular animated series, and its comic book companion is much more than a throwaway cartoon tie-in. It’s incredibly easy to make a lazy cartoon-based comic book. Recycle some plot…
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Great Value Golden Crème Cakes: The Snacktaku Review
The mediation has failed, and Hostess is closing its doors for good, selling off its popular brands to the highest bidders. Now that the initial panic has subsided it’s time for clearer heads to prevail. The end of the Twinkie as a Hostess product is not the end of all golden sponge cakes. There is…
By Mike Fahey
