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ReviewsToys
New Model Kits Let You Build Your Own Damn Pokémon
What sounds more fun: picking up a pre-assembled Pikachu from the Pokémon aisle at Target, or building your own Pikachu out of a pile of colored plastic pieces? We’ll find out this spring when Bluefin brings Bandai Spirits Hobby’s PokePla model kits to North America. Building models rocks, especially when those models become fully-articulated action…
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All The Star Wars I Need Is This Home Arcade Machine
Between the internet’s love affair with Baby Yoda and people arguing over whether The Rise of Skywalker is a masterpiece or utter garbage, it’s a strange time to be a Star Wars fan. That’s why I’m thankful for Arcade1Up’s $500 Star Wars home arcade machine. It takes me back to the ‘80s, when fans didn’t…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewThe Worst Games Of 2019 According To Metacritic
2019 was a year filled some damn good games. Baba Is You, Resident Evil 2, Control, The Outer Worlds and many more high-quality games released this year. But it’s not all good and this year also saw the release of some games that weren’t well-reviewed by critics or fans. Here are the top five worst…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewFahey’s Top 10 Games Of 2019
Can you pick out my top ten games of 2019 from the image above? Of course you can’t, there are only seven games shown there. Want to find out what the other three are, maybe read my justifications for them being on my list? Gonna have to click. That’s how I get you. I spent…
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The Jackbox Party Games Are Some Of The Best Games Of The Decade
For Christmas this year, my GF and I went to her parents’ home and chilled out all day there. We ate brunch and dinner, opened gifts and relaxed. It was nice. But what made it even better was Drawful 2. And this ability to make nearly any party, gathering or hangout better is why The…
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The Year In Tiny Video Game Text, 2019
Games are cheaper than ever, but the three cataract surgeries I paid for this year in order to read the words in them has made the hobby itself way more expensive. In all seriousness, it’s 2019 and so many games, both big and small, are still impossible to read without squinting until a blood vessel…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewVideo Game Fashion Disasters Of The Decade
Video game clothes are usually either very good—like every single thing Bayonetta wears, or all of Jesse Faden’s boss bitch suits in Control—or they are very, very bad. This is a celebration of the decade’s fashion blunders in video games. May they all rest in piss. Low Rise Pants In The Sims 4 Low rise…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewGita Jackson’s Top Ten Games Of 2019
I hate writing top ten lists. At the end of a year, I’m so exhausted that I can barely remember which games came out that year. I’ll start writing a list and then realize that half the games on it came out in 2012. Luckily, I played a lot of great games that stuck in…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewThe Year In Video Game Skies, 2019
Despite video games’ best efforts to make me spend my time staring down at the floor and picking up random junk, I keep looking up to the skies above and the stars beyond. 2019 was full of lovely depictions of both. This is the third annual collection of video game skies, and each year I’m…
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ReviewsToys
Cyberpunk 2077’s Keanu Action Figure Is Mildly Breathtaking
Today McFarlane Toys announced a three-year agreement to produce action figures based on CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077. The first wave includes two different sizes of Keanu Reeves’ character Johnny Silverhand, because who cares about any other Cyberpunk 2077 character at this point? Oh, and there’s a generic male figure as well. Retailing for $24.99…
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Fahey’s Favorite Toys Of 2019
2019 was U.S. toy fans’ first full year without Toys’R’Us, or at least Toys’R’Us as we once knew it. Desperate Americans were forced to buy from non-dedicated toy sellers, with their lower prices and convenient one-stop shopping. It was a nightmare, but somehow we made it through with some pretty cool stuff. Let’s check it…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewEthan Gach’s Top 10 Games of 2019
It’s been a bad year for great games, but a great year for good ones. I say that not to disparage any particular game, big or small, but rather to help explain why this was the hardest list of games I’ve put together since I started writing for Kotaku three years ago. While a few…
By Ethan Gach
