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Doing Battle with Fall of Cybertron‘s Bruticus Figure
Back in February when Hasbro announced it would be making a toy of the Transformers: Fall of Cybertron version of Decepticon gestalt team Bruticus, I was absolutely ecstatic. Now that I’ve got the San Diego Comic-Con variant of the toy in my hot giant hands? Still pretty ecstatic, though that doesn’t mean I can’t be…
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ReviewsDarksiders II: The Kotaku Review
I am become Death, destroyer of crates. Also vases. And skeletons. And bees. And, oh yes, enormous slavering eldritch horrors from Hell. I destroyed a bunch of those, too. Darksiders II begins more or less where the first Darksiders left off. In that game, War—as in, the apocalyptic horseman—accidentally triggers the Armageddon before the correct…
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ReviewsSleeping Dogs: The Kotaku Review
Oh, Sleeping Dogs. Thank you for rescuing me from this slow, slow summer. Before Square Enix/United Front Games’ open-world kung-fu game, the most recent exciting game was Spec Ops: The Line. And not even everyone was 100% in love with that Sleeping Dogs came just in time to stir up the doldrums. It had been…
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Snacktaku Flavor Battle Royale: Wheat Thins
Wheat claims more farmland than any other crop cultivated by mankind. It’s the most traded grain on the planet, with upwards of 700 million tons harvested on a yearly basis to meet the needs of the Earth’s ever-growing population. It’s the “amber waves of grain” in the “America the Beautiful”. It’s not particularly tasty. In…
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ReviewsPersona 4 Arena: The Kotaku Review
I’d imagine the Venn diagram comparing fighting game players to Japanese role-playing game fans doesn’t have much overlap. These are two wildly disparate genres. One caters to the competitive, requiring quick reflexes and the ability to perform lengthy, timing-intensive strings of input commands quickly and strategically. The other satiates the story-hungry gamer, asking only that…
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ReviewsThe Expendables 2: The Kotaku Review
The Expendables is all about elite mercenaries, intense action sequences and a lot of meat-headedness. Seems like it could be the perfect fit for a trigger-happy group of friends to virtually tear through an onslaught of enemies, no? The shooting would be rampant and fun. The characters would be amiable, muscular soldier types with a…
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Wreckateer: The Kotaku Review
This review of Wreckateer is a little late because last week, I was also under siege from large stones, some of them burning. They were just in my kidneys. While Wreckateer may be more enjoyable than a trip to the urologist, it still involves its own degree of waiting and uncertainty, and likewise requires you…
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Origin’s Powerful 15-Inch Gaming Laptop Doesn’t Need to Dress to Impress
When Origin PC sent me their EON15-S laptop for review, time and time again they stressed that while I was getting a plain cover unit for the system, they were also available with a shiny colored plastic lid, special molded to evoke futuristic technology. To which I say hey, Origin PC, you don’t need to…
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ReviewsThe Secret World: The Kotaku Review
As it turns out, I was born to be a Dragon. In the old adage about a butterfly flapping its wings in China to cause a hurricane in Texas, the Dragon are the ones who put the butterfly into position and tell it when to flap. They are agents of chaos, slipping into and moving…
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With The Old Republic Going Free to Play, Now You Can Afford This Ridiculously Overpriced Keyboard
When Star Wars: the Old Republic launched last year, peripheral maker Razer was ready, delivering a stylish mouse and headset combo that evoked the feel of the Lucasverse at a modest premium over similar devices. Razer was not, however, ready with the $250 keyboard. Delayed due to last-minute redesign (it used to feature a strip…
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Dinosaur-Shaped Chicken Nuggets: The Snacktaku Review
In contemporary snackology circles, no theory is as hotly contested as Descartes “Lizard King Postulate”, which argues that any snack is exponentially more enjoyable when shaped like a dinosaur. Time and time again the theory has come under scrutiny by top names in the snack business, with results inconclusive at best. Dinosaur-shaped cakes? Mostly better.…
By Mike Fahey
