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ReviewsPokémon Black and White 2: The Kotaku Review
It’s four o’clock in the morning and I’m sitting outside my apartment chain-smoking cigarettes, mildly buzzed on cough syrup and decidedly not getting the rest I was supposed to be getting in order to alleviate the need for prescription medication in the first place. Instead I am grinding levels on my water and fighting-type Pokémon…
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The Headphones That Didn’t Screw Up a Second Chance to Succeed the First Time
Say this for Performance Designed Products, makers of the Afterglow Wireless Headset, a slick, luminous gaming accessory which promises universal functionality and evokes the costume design of Tron. They are very confident this will work, right out of the box, the very first time. Yet that has never been my experience in reviewing about half…
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ReviewsThis Keyboard Tries So Hard To Be Great That I Actually Feel Sorry For How Terrible It Is
The kindest thing I can say about the Imperator Pro, a gaming keyboard from Taiwanese company Genius, is that it works exactly as advertised. Keys, both standard and programmable, function as intended and do what a user would expect them to. That’s a big plus, in a keyboard. Sadly, there are also a number of…
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Guild Wars 2: The Kotaku Review
The true heart and essence of Guild Wars 2 lies in its map. It took me three weeks of playing and a chat with my colleague Kirk to realize and articulate how much magic lies in that seemingly simple function. The map of Tyria isn’t just utilitarian; it’s beautiful. Even mired in the fog of…
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ReviewsDead or Alive 5: The Kotaku Review [Update]
The Dead or Alive series has always felt like it was my fighting franchise. From the moment I first button-mashed my way to my first counter in the 1997 Sega Saturn import, I knew that I had found the fighter for me. I was entranced by the flow of battles, the block and counter, the…
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Totino’s Pizza Rolls: The Snacktaku Review
In 1968 Jeno Paulucci, the creator of the Chun King line of pre-packaged Chinese food, took an egg roll wrapper and stuffed it with pizza toppings. America has had terrible heartburn ever since. Jeno’s Pizza Rolls, now Totino’s Pizza Rolls, have become a staple of snack cuisine around the world, the poster snack for putting…
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ReviewsF1 2012: The Kotaku Review
This past week, I haven’t felt as helpless or as vexed behind the wheel since I was 15 years old and trying to divine the magical balance between clutch and gas pedal that actually sent my mother’s BMW 325e forward along our farm’s gravel road. Each time the vehicle shuddered and stalled out, I was…
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ReviewsBorderlands 2: The Kotaku Review
Have you ever been unable to get yourself out of an abusive relationship? Borderlands 2 kicked my ass, lit me on fire, took all my money and I still keep coming back for more. Three years ago Gearbox made a game called Borderlands. It was a colorful, cel-shaded first-person shooter with a few RPG-like qualities…
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NHL 13: The Kotaku Review
My ice hockey knowledge comes primarily from being an obnoxious and uninformed fan. When Nashville came to San Jose for the 2007 playoffs, I was the guy trying to start the “Child Predators” chant. In Raleigh, before the Carolina Hurricanes arrived, my friends and I would go to IceCaps games and try a stunt called…
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ReviewsJet Set Radio: The Kotaku Review
Few games were as revolutionary as Jet Set Radio for the Dreamcast. It completely overturned our expectations of what games could look like, and remained one of the best games to come out for the system. In the video above, I discuss the HD port of Jet Set Radio: How it’s aged as a game,…
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ReviewsHardee’s Memphis BBQ Thickburger: The Snacktaku Review
What most restaurants label a BBQ hamburger is generally a normal hamburger with some sort of barbecue sauce added, maybe some crispy onion straws. Hardee’s (or Carl’s Jr. on the west coast) breaks from this formula with the Memphis BBQ Thickburger, a black angus burger with barbecue sauce, crispy fried onion straws and actual BBQ…
By Mike Fahey
