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Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot Micro-Review: A Very Long Engagement
Don’t call it a deathmatch, says Gearbox. Don’t call it Horde mode either. It’s just Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot, an epic-length firefight in Borderlands, played to shifting rules and a brass accompaniment of spent casings clattering on the ground. Borderlands’ “role-playing shooter” combination makes it one of 2009’s most spectacularly addicting games. But what happens…
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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers Review: The Big Book Of FF Activities
The Crystal Chronicles continue on the Wii with Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, the action-packed third installment of Nintendo’s personal Final Fantasy series. A thousand years after the original Crystal Chronicles the world has changed. The four races are three, with the now dominant plant-like Lilties having defeated the Yuke tribe of machine…
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Style Savvy Review: Dressing Miss Michael
Join Kotaku’s tallest, broadest, and hairiest regular contributor as I explore the world of retail fashion design with Nintendo’s Style Savvy for the Nintendo DS. Style Savvy is a game marketed at girls that’s all about fashion – putting together outfits, running your own boutique, and maybe even making waves on the runway scene. The…
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The Sims 3: World Adventures Review: A Form Of Manifest Destiny
Expansions are to The Sims series as pimples are to puberty: they’re going to happen, so embrace them and try to avoid nasty pit scars. It’s just part of growing up. The Sims 3: World Adventures opens up three new remote locations your Sim can visit: China, France and Egypt. The purpose of visiting the…
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2009 In Review: The Controversies
Looking back on 2009’s many kerfuffles and foofaraws, it may not have been the most contentious year the gaming industry has ever seen. But it certainly was among the most entertaining. Kicking off Kotaku’s review of 2009 are the headlines that generated the most heat, if not light, from the preceding year. The conflicts fracture…
By Owen Good -
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Saitek Aviator Flight Stick Review: Do A Barrel Roll!
Saitek’s PC flight stick heritage merges with Mad Catz‘s console peripheral expertise to create the Saitek Aviator Flight Stick, containing all the controls you need to get your arcade flight games off the ground in style. The Aviator combines two controllers into one, placing the throttle controls traditionally placed on a separate unit for flight…
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Dragon’s Lair Micro-Review: Small Scenes from the Mind’s Eye
When it landed in 1983, Dragon’s Lair was truly unlike anything ever seen in an arcade. The gorgeous cartoon visuals not only justified an unthinkable 50-cent spend back then, they became the most memorable of pre-crash arcade classics. With Dragon’s Lair’s port to the iPhone and iPod Touch, EA Mobile and Digital Leisure are banking…
By Owen Good -
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PixelJunk Shooter Micro-Review: Just Add Water… Or Lava
Q-Games continues its series of deceptively simple PlayStation Network games with PixelJunk Shooter, where danger runs hot and salvation is just a glass of water away. Okay, maybe not a glass. PixelJunk Shooter is a game about saving miners and scientists trapped beneath the surface of a strange planet, but it’s also a game about…
By Mike Fahey