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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…
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ReviewsThe Fretlight Guitar Sets a Shining Example for Hopeful Guitar Heroes
With Guitar Hero on extended leave and no new Rock Band title coming out this year, now is the perfect time to trade in our toy guitars for something a bit more substantial. Going from five colorful plastic buttons for six strings with 22 frets each is a daunting task however, especially when music games…
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: The Kotaku Review
The stench hits me first. Before the gurgle and hiss, the skittering of twisted claws against bare stone, the stale air of the abandoned mine delivers a stomach-churning whiff of the creatures’ breath, the miasmal scent of spoiled flesh between rotting teeth. Rotfiends. Eaters of the dead. They overwhelm two of my senses, so I…
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The Universal Wrist Gadget Charger Arms Your Electronics with Extra Life
In the age of smartphones, MP3 players, tablet PCs, and high-quality handheld gaming devices, people need all the electricity they can get their hands on, even if they have to strap it onto their bodies to carry it around. Now there’s an idea… And where there are nifty gadget ideas, online retailer ThinkGeek is generally…
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Nyko’s Move Rifle Is A Nice Shot But Not Enough To Break Through
I don’t know if I’ll ever be sold on the idea that motion-control in first-person shooters can provide any greater fun or any means of shortening the genre’s tactical learning curve into something more instinctive. It is, as I’ve said, like trying to turn a doorknob with barbecue tongs. You’re just better off turning it…
By Owen Good
