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ReviewsToysSpawn Is The Best Mortal Kombat Action Figure
McFarlane Toys makes Mortal Kombat action figures. Spawn, the comic book character created by McFarlane Toys founder Todd McFarlane, is a fighter in Mortal Kombat 11. So now there’s a Mortal Kombat-branded Spawn action figure. He’s adorable. To be fair, I’ve not gotten a chance to play with the other two $20 figures in McFarlane’s…
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ReviewsToysLego Super Mario Sets Launch In August, Aren’t Cheap
Nintendo and Lego’s odd amalgam of traditional building set and interactive electronic game kicks off on August 1 with the $60 Adventures with Mario Starter Course, along with the newly announced $30 Piranha Plant Power Slide and $100 Bowser’s Castle Boss Battle expansions. If you want to play with Lego’s weird-looking Mario, with his embedded…
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ReviewsToysI’m Haunted By The Eyes Of The New Michael Keaton Batman Figure
Despite fan protests and being encased within a costume without a movable neck, Michael Keaton’s 1989 Batman is fondly remembered as one of the Dark Knight’s best big-screen adventures. Those eyes, though. Damn those eyes. Thanks to that non-moving neck, the movie and its first sequel are filled with shots of Keaton’s large, emotive eyes…
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ReviewsControllersBow Before The Beauty Of My Custom-Painted Joy-Cons
In my never-ending quest to make my consoles and controllers look uniquely pretty, I turn to Colorware, the company that’s been painting game hardware for two decades. They do custom color Joy-Cons for $150 and special limited edition designs for $200, which look and feel amazing. There’s nothing wrong with spending $70 on a pair…
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ReviewsToysThe Perfect Animal Crossing Isabelle Action Figure Returns
Oh. My. Dog. I’d forgotten how wonderful Nendoroid Isabelle is. Originally released alongside Animal Crossing: New Leaf for the 3DS, Good Smile Company’s Isabelle action figure is making a comeback just in time for New Horizons Well, her preorder is just in time for New Horizons. Nendoroid Shizue, to use her fancy Japanese name, is now…
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ReviewsHeadsetsThe Best Headset Microphones Can Attach To Any Headphones
It’s not easy to find a gaming headset with a microphone anywhere near broadcast quality. It is, however, easy to add a broadcast quality headset mic to any existing pair of headphones, thanks to Antlion Audio’s series of ModMics. The ModMic series is the answer to a problem I’ve been dealing with for years. Headset…
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ReviewsSwitchAnimal Crossing: New Horizons: The Kotaku Review
Excerpts from a journal titled “New Horizons”: I’ve decided to take a vacation. Well, less of a vacation and more of a… sojourn, I guess you could call it. A close friend of mine, Tom Nook, has started a new business offering relocations to a deserted island. There are discounts for those who can help…
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ReviewsMultiplatformOri And The Will Of The Wisps: The Kotaku Review
During my time with an early reviewable version of Ori and the Will of the Wisps,, I experienced multiple lockups, intense framerate stutter, and a bug that warped me to the other side of the map after a death. I had a boss battle I’d attempted a half-dozen times reset completely as I landed the…
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ReviewsToysLego Is Looking Into Making This Excellent Sonic Mania Set
Witness the blocky majesty of Sonic Mania’s Green Hill Zone in Lego form. Designed by UK builder Toastergirl, it’s the latest fan creation to achieve 10,000 supporters on the Lego Ideas website, qualifying it for consideration as an official Lego set. With Lego and Nintendo teasing a Mario collaboration, can Sonic be far behind? Lego…
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ReviewsMultiplatformThe Division 2: Warlords Of New York: The Kotaku Review
When The Division 2 launched last March, the cover-based shooter set in a wrecked Washington, DC was received positively by fans and critics. Then things soured. Players who expected a game that would expand over time were disappointed by a lack of new content as well as balance changes that nerfed popular character builds. Months…
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ReviewsMultiplatformGranblue Fantasy Versus: The Kotaku Review
It seems like everything is getting a fighting game adaptation these days. Dragon Ball Z, RWBY, Power Rangers, League of Legends, you name it. Granblue Fantasy, one of many mobile role-playing gacha games that asks players to spend real money on virtual slot machines, is the latest to jump aboard the train. While I have…
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ReviewsHardwareComputersNZXT’s New Mini Case Makes A Fine Little Gaming PC
Vertically-aligned boxes are beautiful. That’s the first thing I learned from NZXT’s H1 Mini PC, a new pre-configured gaming PC sporting the elegantly monolithic H1 mini-ITX case on the outside and impressive space economy on the inside. This article is really about two items NZXT released this past week. The first one is the H1…
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ReviewsPS4Space Channel 5 VR: The Kotaku Review
How badly do you want to play another Space Channel 5 game? Your personal level of yearning to see Sega’s long-dormant rhythm game series make a comeback is likely to be proportional to the amount of fun you have with this week’s Space Channel 5 VR Kinda Funky News Flash for PlayStation VR. At its…
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ReviewsToysTransformers Cyberverse Has The Best New Toys
For the past few years, Hasbro’s been juggling two main lines of Transformers toys: the complex, expensive, collector-aimed War for Cybertron line and the simpler, cheaper Cyberverse line, with its kid-friendly designs and lighthearted animated YouTube series. Hasbro revealed the latest toys for each line at the New York City Toy Fair this weekend, and…
By Mike Fahey
