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ReviewsMcDonald’s Cone: The Snacktaku Review
The world’s most popular fast food restaurant does many things wrong. Every day McDonald’s serves up hundreds of thousands of sandwiches that are little more than fat stacked with fat coated in fat. They attempt to replace true happiness with oil-soaked paper sleeves filled with once-healthy vegetables and meats battered beyond recognition. They created the…
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ReviewsHeroes of Ruin: The Kotaku Review
Heroes of Ruin is an incredibly apropos title for Square Enix and N-Space’s online multiplayer action role-playing game for the Nintendo 3DS. From the moment the game concept was revealed, my hopes began to rise. A handheld Diablo-style RPG adventure? Online multiplayer for up to four-players, complete with voice chat? The promise of endless piles…
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An Ambidextrous Gaming Mouse So Powerful You Can Use It One-Handed
Not a day goes by that I don’t get an email from left-handed mutants wondering why I don’t review mice made just for them. I believe I just answered that question. What I can do, however, is review a gaming mouse for people both right and wrong-handed. A mouse that weighs its fearful symmetry to…
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The Samsung Series 7 Gamer Is One Effective, and Enormous, Gaming Laptop
At a hefty 17″, the Samsung Series 7 Gamer is not exactly what you might call “portable.” It’s a laptop that’s squarely in the realm of desktop replacement. The system specs say it weighs in at just under 8.4 pounds, but it’s still not something you’d exactly want to carry around. When I got it…
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ReviewsDyad: The Kotaku Review
To say that Shawn McGrath’s Dyad is intense is an understatement. The game may technically count as a mind-altering drug, and believe me, that’s a good thing. In my video review, above, I break down not only the experience of playing Dyad but also where it’s roots lay and why it goes above and beyond…
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Cinnabon: The Snacktaku Review
Some argue that smell is the most powerful of the six senses (smell, taste, touch, hearing, seeing, and seeing dead people). Nature is rife with animals that use scent to scare off predators, attract pollinating insects or seduce potential mates. Some animals even use scent to draw in victims for the kill. The Cinnabon is…
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ReviewsNCAA Football 13: The Kotaku Review
NCAA Football 13 arrives at a particularly nostalgic time in my life. I’ve moved back to my hometown—in a house literally across the street from the five-time state champion high school I graduated. Revered names like Jeff Hayes and Mike Chatham, Harry Jennings and Richard Grissom, and Clarence Edwards (pictured above, somewhat idealized) are flooding…
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ReviewsSimCity Social: The Kotaku Review
Facebook has been very good to the city-building genre. Every day millions of people wake up, log in and click away the day placing buildings, upgrading facilities and incessantly bugging their friends for help in titles like Zynga’s CityVille or Game Insight’s My Country. Now the legendary franchise that inspired these games has come to…
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You Don’t Need to Spend $200 on a Custom Xbox 360 Controller, But You Might Want To
Back in May I praised the looks of a custom Xbox 360 controller created especially for Kotaku by the folks at The Controller Shop, and the verdict was nearly unanimous — that’s an ugly controller. Speaking as the man that selected the color scheme, everyone was wrong. But I’m not here to review the gorgeous…
By Mike Fahey
