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Tell Us About the Official Wireless PlayStation 3 Headset, PoweredByHentai
Warning: Today’s Speak Up on Kotaku might send you to your local video game retailer with $100 in hand, as commenter PoweredByHentai goes hands-on with Sony’s recently-released wireless PlayStation 3 headset. So my Sony wireless headset for the PS3 arrived at my house this morning. It has a built-in rechargeable battery that is charged up…
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The Flex-Fire Is PlayStation Move Shooting, But with a Bender
We are about a year into hardcore shooter gaming played with the PlayStation Move—an experience that, from day one, is assumed to demand one play it with something that resembles a rifle, without ever asking if we really should. This is partly because of how different turning, looking, and aiming become when using a rifle…
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ReviewsMadden NFL 12: The Kotaku Review
As the NFL lockout dragged all of the spring and much of the summer, Madden NFL 12 figured to be the only football coming to your TV this year, until a month before its release. From its conception, the game was meant to be a salve for the hurting hardcore fan, not a song for…
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The Rockus 3D 2.1 Speaker System Sounds Nice, But At What Cost?
When one thinks of quality computer speakers, several names come to mind: Logitech, Altec Lansing, Bose, and Creative Labs, to name a few. Soundscience isn’t a name that comes to mind. Neither is Antec. In fact, when one thinks of the name Antec, they think PC cases and power supplies. Hit up the company’s Wikipedia…
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ReviewsMadden‘s Low-Magnitude “Superstar” Isn’t Much to Gaze At
Simulation-quality sports video games all now ship with some kind of solo career mode, in which you create or control one player throughout his entire career. By far, this fantasy experience is most underserved by the football games. NCAA Football 12 made a substantial effort to upgrade its career this year, and although Madden NFL…
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The SteelSeries Spectrum 7XB Silences Doubts About High-End Wireless Gaming Headsets
I’ve often wondered what drives a person to shell out upwards of two hundred dollars for a high quality gaming headset instead of simply plugging in a pair of cheap ear buds or turning the television down really low. As one might imagine, I’m not much of an audiophile. In the span of a couple…
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NCAA Football 12: The Kotaku Review
A century’s worth of traditions spread over 100 teams makes college football one of the top subjects when sports fans start gumming How It Really Oughta Be: Who gets into what bowl, what rivalry should be rescheduled, what schools should be in which conference if everyone wasn’t so fixated on starting their own TV network.…
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Reviews$100 Rainbow Lamps Paint the Walls with PC Gaming’s Light
For decades PC gamers have been content to let the colored lights of their favorite virtual playgrounds remain safely contained within the borders of their monitors. Mad Catz’s amBX-powered Cyborg PC Gaming Lights present a compelling reason to start playing outside the box. I’ve been writing about amBX for years now, and my articles on…
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The Origin PC EON17-S Laptop Births a New Respect for 3D Gaming
The first full day I spent actually playing games on the Origin PC EON17-S gaming laptop was a day filled with the wonders of 3D PC gaming, NVIDIA 3D Vision glasses only leaving my face during brief trips to see my newborn sons at the other end of the hospital. I hadn’t planned on spending…
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Two Weeks and One E3 in Betabrand Couch Commando Cargo Pants
I’ve never worn a pair of prototype pants before. But Betabrand, the San Francisco-based company who makes sweatshirts designed using DARPA technology or pants designed to let you eat a lot of food, decided to send me the very first pair of their new “Couch Commando” cargo pants. I wouldn’t go far as to say…
By Joel Johnson
