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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: The Kotaku Review
The tantalizingly brief Skyrim teaser trailer debuted by Bethesda Softworks late last year filled my mind with visions of titanic battles between man and beast; of shining steel bathed in ancient flames; of a champion rising from humble origins, prepared to sacrifice everything for the fate of the world. After 60+ hours with the game…
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Super Mario 3D Land: The Kotaku Review
When resourceful fans discovered an exploit showing how to rack up hundreds of extra lives in Super Mario 3DS, some laughed, thinking the game they had seen was too simple for that to be necessary. Let me assure you: Those lives will come in handy—when you least expect it. The easiest trope in the save-the-princess…
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Sonic Generations: The Kotaku Review
Even after 20 years, it’s amazing how quickly muscle memory returns. And not just in the hands or the arms; I’m talking in the extraocular muscles—the ones that move your eyeballs. Blasting through that first, long runway that opens good old Green Hill Zone, Sonic the Hedgehog plowed headfirst into a garden-variety badnik. On restart,…
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The Lord of the Rings: War in the North: The Kotaku Review
Why didn’t Gandalf have his giant eagle friends drop the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom and be done with it? This is a question I’ve jokingly put forth to fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy over the years, endlessly amused by the (often angry) responses it generates. “The…
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Clean, Convenient Refreshment for Your PS3 Controller
Because of the USB port on the PS3 controller, I always considered the DualShock charging stations I saw at Best Buy to be like bottled water. Why pay for something that’s already provided for free, right? Just plug the damn thing in when it runs low on juice. Thing is, I like it when my…
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Am I Up To Reviewing This Competitive Gaming Bag?
The Battle Dragon Bag is Tt eSports’ answer to the pro-gamer’s equipment carrying woes: A perfect way to transport the delicate equipment the serious competitive gamer needs to excel at their craft. I am not a serious competitive gamer. I can be serious at times, certainly, and I’ve been known to become quite competitive when…
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In the Great Indoors, I Like to ‘Bag It Up
It arrived a week ago. I put it on and zipped up and saw myself in the full-length mirror, looking like the bastard offspring of Barney and Gumby, or scientist victim No. 4 from John Carpenter’s The Thing. Mummified in polyester, I marshaled my intestinal fortitude to confront the very first thought I had when…
By Owen Good
