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The 50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For

November 22nd, 2012Top Story

The 50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For

By Whitson Gordon

The 50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful ForIt's the time of year where we all give thanks, and among many other things, we here at Lifehacker are thankful for all the free apps out there that improve our lives (and the developers that make them!). Here are 50 of our favorites.

We asked you which free apps you're most thankful for, you offered hundreds of suggestions both classic and new. Here, we've taken your votes (and added a few of our own) and ranked our 50 apps using those votes as a guide. So without further ado, here are 50 free apps for your downloading feast.

The 50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For

  1. Dropbox

    Category: Cloud Storage
    See also: Top 10 Clever Uses for Dropbox, The Cheapskate's Guide to Getting Free Dropbox Space, How to Get 8GB+ Extra Dropbox Space for Free with Google AdWords, How to Supercharge Your Dropbox with Wappwolf, and more Dropbox coverage

  2. Google Chrome

    Category: Web Browsers
    See also: The Always Up-to-Date Power User's Guide to Chrome, How to Really Browse Without Leaving a Trace, Which Browser Should I Use: Firefox or Chrome?, How and Why Chrome Is Overtaking Firefox Among Power Users, and more Chrome coverage

  3. Firefox

    Category: Web Browsers
    See also: The Always Up-to-Date Power User's Guide to Firefox, Why I've Switched From Chrome to Firefox 4, Top 10 Must-Have Browser Extensions, Which Browser Should I Use: Firefox or Chrome?, and more Firefox coverage

  4. Evernote

    Category: Notes
    See also: Expand Your Brain with Evernote and Clever Uses for Evernote, The Complete Guide to Going Paperless, Turn Your Mess of Ideas Into Something Organized and Useful, and more Evernote coverage
    Alternative: Use Springpad as Your New Personal Assistant

  5. Pocket

    Category: Bookmarking
    See also: The Best Way to Save All the Useful Articles You Come Across Online and More Pocket Coverage
    Alternatives: Instapaper and Readability

  6. Skype

    Category: VoIP
    See also: Get Better Quality Video Chat, The Five Best Webcams, Phone-ify Your Computer for Considerably Improved At-Home Calls and Texts, and more Skype coverage

  7. Google Maps

    Category: Maps
    See also: Make your GPS App Give You Better Directions, Wean Yourself Off Your GPS Dependency, 5 Great Experimental Features You Should Enable from the Google Maps Laboratory, and Our complete Google Maps coverage

  8. Gmail

    Category: Email
    See also: Master the New Gmail with These Tips, Shortcuts, and Add-Ons, Top 10 Clever Tricks Built Right Into Gmail, Get Google and iOS Living Together in Perfect Harmony, Fix Gmail's Newest Annoyances with These Userstyles and Userscripts, and more Gmail coverage

  9. Google Voice

    Category: Communication
    See also: Phone-ify Your Computer for Considerably Improved At-Home Calls and Texts, The Most Helpful Ways to Use Google Voice that You're Not Using, Top 10 Clever Google Voice Tricks, How to Improve Your Google Voice Experience on the iPhone, Get the Most Out of Google Voice on Your Non-Smartphone, How to Port Your Number to Google Voice Without Paying an Arm and a Leg, and more Google Voice coverage

  10. Instagram

    Category: Photos
    See also: Know Which Shots Work Best with Each Instagram Filter, Normalize Turns Instagram'd Photos Back to Normal, and more Instagram coverage

  11. Spotify

    Category: Music Streaming
    See also: Spotify Is the Best Desktop Music Player We've Ever Used, The Essential Spotify Tools, How to Automatically Mute Ads on Spotify, How to Stop Spotify from Posting Every Song You Listen to on Facebook, How to Discover New Music in the Post-MP3 Age, and more Spotify coverage

  12. Flipboard

    Category: News Readers
    See also: Lifehacker Faceoff: The Best Digital Digests on iPad and iPhone and more Flipboard coverage

  13. Google Drive

    Category: Cloud Storage
    See also: File Syncing Faceoff: Dropbox vs. Google Drive, How to Supercharge Your Google Drive with Wappwolf, Instantly Send Any Gmail Attachment to Google Drive, and more Google Drive coverage

  14. Google Calendar

    Category: Calendars
    See also: Get Google and iOS Living Together in Perfect Harmony, Manage Your Money with Google Calendar, How to Use Google Calendar as a Project Management Tool, 8 Great Experimental Features to Enable in Google Calendar's Labs, and more Google Calendar coverage

  15. Google Play Music

    Category: Music Streaming
    See also: How to Make Google Music Your Secondary Media Player (and Why You Should), Cloud Music Comparison: What's the Best Service for Streaming Your Library Everywhere?, Music Plus Makes Google Music Awesome, and more Google Play Music coverage

  16. Waze

    Category: Maps
    See also: Make your GPS App Give You Better Directions, Wean Yourself Off Your GPS Dependency, and more Waze coverage

  17. Dolphin

    Category: Web Browsers
    See also: Dolphin Jetpack Supercharges Dolphin Browser, Makes Mobile Surfing Stupid Fast, Lifehacker Faceoff: The Best Web Browsers for iPhone and iPad, and more Dolphin coverage

  18. Wunderlist

    Category: To-Do Lists
    See also: Wunderlist Is a Simple, Elegant, and Free To-Do App that Synchronizes Across Your Machines, Back to Basics: How to Simplify Your To-Do List and Make It Useful Again and more Wunderlist coverage

  19. Pandora

    Category: Music Streaming
    See also: How to Discover New Music in the Post-MP3 Age, Five Best Internet Radio Services, and more Pandora coverage

  20. Google Reader

    Category: News Readers
    See also: Supercharge Google Reader with Styles and Extensions, Organize My RSS Feeds So They're More Manageable, How to Turn Google Reader into a Customizable Read-It-Later Service, and more Google Reader coverage

  21. LastPass

    Category: Password Managers
    See also: The Intermediate Guide to Mastering Passwords with LastPass, How to Build a (Nearly) Hack-Proof Password System with LastPass and a Thumb Drive How to Automatically Fill in Repetitive Web Forms (and Avoid Tons of Tedious Typing), and more LastPass coverage

  22. XBMC

    Category: Media Center S
    See also: http://lifehacker.com/5900626/create-a-kickass-seamless-play+everything-media-center-the-complete-guide, How I Built the Media Center of My Dreams for Under $500, How to Make XBMC Easier to Use (Especially for Non-Geeks), OpenELEC Is a Fast-Booting, Self-Updating Version of XBMC for Home Theater PCs, Top 10 Ways to Power Up Your Home Theater PC, and more XBMC coverage
    Alternative: How to Stream Your Media from Home to Your Phone Anywhere You Go with Plex

  23. VLC

    Category: Media Players
    See also: Master Your Digital Media with VLC, Set a Video as Your Wallpaper with VLC, How to Fix Movies that Are Really Quiet, then REALLY LOUD, and more VLC coverage

  24. Mint.com

    Category: Personal Finance
    See also: Is Mint Ready for Your Money?, How to Create (and Stick to) a Realistic Budget with Mint, and more Mint coverage

  25. TeamViewer

    Category: Remote Access
    See also: Use Your Home Computer from Anywhere: A Comprehensive Guide to Remote Controlling Your PC How Do I Troubleshoot My Parents' PC Remotely? and more TeamViewer coverage

  26. AirDroid

    Category: Remote Access
    See also: AirDroid Controls Your Android Phone or Tablet from Any Modern Web Browser

  27. FoxFi

    Category: Tethering
    See also: Use Your Android Phone as a Wi-Fi Hotspot for Free, No Rooting Required

  28. Ubuntu(and other Linux Distros)

    Category: Operating System
    See also: Getting Started with Linux: The Complete Guide, How to Find the Perfect Linux Distribution for You, Five Best Linux Distributions, Build a Killer Customized Arch Linux Installation (and Learn All About Linux in the Process), Turn an Old Computer into a Networked Backup, Streaming, or Torrenting Machine with Ubuntu, and more Linux coverage

  29. Microsoft Security Essentials

    Category: Antivirus
    See also: Stop Paying for Windows Security; Microsoft's Security Tools Are Good Enough, Nine Common Myths and Misconceptions About Viruses, Examined and Debunked, Change Microsoft Security Essential's Update Frequency, and more Security Essentials coverage

  30. uTorrent

    Category: BitTorrent Client
    See also: How to Add Automatic Virus Scanning, Video Conversion, and Remote Downloading to uTorrent for Free, How to Monitor Your BitTorrent Downloads from Any Computer or Mobile Device, How Do I Torrent Safely Now That Demonoid Is Down?, and more uTorrent coverage
    Alternative: Transmission

  31. CCleaner

    Category: Utilities
    See also: The Maintenance You Need to Do on a Windows PC, Run CCleaner on a Schedule to Keep Your PC Crap-Free, CCleaner Enhancer Makes CCleaner Even Better, Now Cleans 270 New Apps, and more CCleaner coverage

  32. HandBrake

    Category: Video Conversion
    See also: How to Rip a DVD to Your Computer, The Hassle-Free Guide to Ripping Your Blu-Ray Collection, Calculate the Perfect HandBrake Video Encoding Settings for Your Device, and more Handbrake coverage

  33. VirtualBox

    Category: Virtualization
    See also: The Beginner's Guide to Creating Virtual Machines with VirtualBox, Should I Run a Second Operating System in a Virtual Machine or Dual Boot?, How to Run Mac OS X Inside Windows Using VirtualBox, and more VirtualBox coverage

  34. CyanogenMod

    Category: Android ROMs
    See also: The Always Up-To-Date Guide to Rooting the Most Popular Android Phones, How to Choose the Right Android ROM for You, and more CyanogenMod coverage

  35. Flux

    Category: CATEGORY
    See also: Flux Changes Your Screen Brightness by Time of Day, Make Your Computer and More Friendly to Use at Night, Prevent Eyestrain at Your Computer, and more Flux coverage

  36. GIMP

    Category: Image Editing
    See also: Top 10 Photoshop Tricks You Can Use Without Buying Photoshop, Is GIMP better than Photoshop?, Tweak GIMP to be More Like Photoshop, and more GIMP coverage

  37. LibreOffice

    Category: Office Suite
    See also: Am I Missing Out by Using Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office? and more LibreOffice coverage

  38. Thunderbird

    Category: Email
    See also: Backing up Gmail with Thunderbird, Eight Killer Thunderbird Extensions, How to Sync Your Desktop Email Client (Outlook or Thunderbird) Across Multiple Computers, Thunderbird to Slow Down Development, Focus on "Security and Stability" Only, and more Thunderbird coverage

  39. Picasa

    Category: Photo Manager
    See also: How to Upload and Share Photos on Flickr, Picasa, or Facebook, Picasa 3.5 Organizes Your Photos with Facial Recognition, Picasa Now Offering Virtually Unlimited Photo Storage, Brings Google+ Tagging, and more Picasa coverage

  40. Twitter

    Category: Social Networking
    See also: Top 10 Uses for Twitter (That Aren't Self-Indulgent), Navigate the New Twitter Like a Pro with Keyboard Shortcuts, Why's Everybody So Pissed About Twitter, and Should I Care?, How to Deal with Your Biggest Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ Annoyances, and more Twitter coverage

  41. AutoHotkey

    Category: Utilities
    See also: Turn Any Action into a Keyboard Shortcut, The Best Time-Saving AutoHotkey Tricks You Should Be Using, Put Your Keyboard's Unused Keys to Use (by Turning Them into Awesome Shortcuts), and more AutoHotkey coverage

  42. Launchy

    Category: Utilities
    See also: Integrate Everything Search Tool and Launchy, Take Launchy beyond application launching, Screenshot Tour: Tweaking Launchy, and more Launchy coverage

  43. Quicksilver

    Category: Utilities
    See also: Hack Attack: A beginner's guide to Quicksilver, Top 10 Quicksilver Plug-ins, Turn Any Action Into a Keyboard Shortcut on Your Mac, and more Quicksilver coverage

  44. Simplenote

    Category: Note Taking
    See also: The Holy Grail of Ubiquitous Plain-Text Capture, The Best Ways to Keep Your Notes in Sync Across All Your Devices, and more Simplenote coverage

  45. Titanium Backup

    Category: Utilities
    See also: How to Set Up a Fully Automated App and Settings Backup on Android, How to Upgrade to a New Android Phone and Take Everything with You, and How to Speed Up Your Old or Sluggish Android Device

  46. Winamp

    Category: Media Players
    See also: Manage your music with Winamp, Control Winamp Remotely from Any Browser, Music Player Showdown: Which Desktop Player Is Best for Syncing to Android?, and more Winamp coverage

  47. Google Tasks

    Category: To-Do Lists
    See also: Google Tasks Extension Brings Super-Fast Task Management to Chrome, To-Do Manager Any.DO Comes to the Web, Launches New iOS App, and more Tasks coverage

  48. Opera

    Category: Web Browsers
    See also: How (and Why) to Set Up a Secondary Browser Optimized for Slow Internet Connections, Top 10 Must-Have Browser Extensions, and more Opera coverage

  49. Notepad++

    Category: Text editors
    See also: Five Best Text Editors, AutoSave Adds Reassurance to Notepad++ Editing, and How to Get More Plus out of Notepad++

  50. 7-Zip

    Category: File Compression
    See also: What's the Best Way to Compress a Bunch of Files? and From Saucy Pics to Passwords: How to Share Sensitive Information Over the Internet

Title image illustrated by Dominick Rabrun. You can find his illustrations on his personal web site, or works in progress on his blog.

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Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

November 22nd, 2012Top Story

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

By Tina Amini

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest GamesThis year has been chock full of games. With the holidays approaching we've rounded up some gift guides covering all sorts of bases for you. Price range, platform, etc. But what if you just want to refresh your memory of this year's highlights?

Here are all of our reviews of the biggest games this year. Hopefully it will help in your holiday purchases, and to occupy your non-family time with some good game choices.

If you don't see a title you're interested in, try Kotaku.com/review where you'll find a full list, including hardware and even snack reviews.

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Need For Speed: Most Wanted is a laser-focused, unblockable gut-punch of constant acceleration. Speed freaks, rejoice. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games Because it may not be the best Assassin's Creed but it is a refreshing recharge to a well-made series. It's an important game about America, about killing bad guys and about climbing beautiful trees. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games Assassin's Creed Liberation brings the series to Playstation Vita in strong fashion and adds inspired new mechanics to an already strong formula. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games Halo 4 is an emotional, beautiful look at Master Chief's struggles in war. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Nintendo Land is the best way to experience all the wonderful weirdness of the Wii U. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Far Cry 3 does so much right: It's an exhilarating and empowering adventure that marvelously combines player freedom with shiny technical polish. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games Hitman: Absolution is a sprawling, satisfying game that offers dozens of vicious possibilities with each new scenario. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games Like most Mario games, it never stops feeling fun. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games Black Ops II feels great to play, especially when futuristic weapons are involved, yes-but it also makes you think. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

It offers a continuation of the World of Warcraft experience, but at this point that experience just isn't quite enough. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Medal of Honor Warfighter is slipshod, uninspired, unpolished, and unfun. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

007 Legends is not only terrible a homage to James Bond, but it's a mediocre shooter too.
More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Skylanders Giants, like Spyro's Adventure before it, gives collecting colorful pieces of plastic a purpose. It's a chimerical combination of two passions, and hey, the kids seem to dig it. More »

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Forza Horizon lets down its parent brand's hair and gives you the fantasy lifestyle of racing gorgeous cars in the prime of your life. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

XCOM: Enemy Unknown takes a classic PC strategy game, improves it then makes it playable for console owners as well. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Where most games have strict rules and guidelines, Dishonored has suggestions. Suggestions that it encourages you to mess around with at every turn. Blending the do-what-you-want structure of Deus Ex with the masterful world design of BioShock, this game is really something special. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

NBA 2K13 serves the flashiest sport and sports lifestyle in North America with rich gameplay and deep career modes. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

The interesting changes in this Resident Evil can't save it from feeling bloated and boring. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

You have to catch all the things, and revisiting old friends and exploring the aftermath of events two years prior is an entertaining way to do it. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

With a mix of familiar MMORPG tropes and new, modern approaches to delivering them, Guild Wars 2 is an excellent, welcoming take on the genre. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

A fresh style, new stages to tear apart, and expansive story / training mode and solid online play, this is a Dead or Alive sequel that's finally worth its new number. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Torchlight II is a sprawling, ambitious game that does one thing very, very well. It gives you a world you'll want to explore, filled with enemies you'll love to destroy. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Borderlands 2 is a charming, funny, hell of a cooperative game with lots of style and personality that you can spend hours with. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

It is one of the most unique games to come out of Japan in the last decade. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

NHL 13's skating and AI refinements make it a very lifelike, very strategic interpretation of a real-world sport long abused by the speed and power of video games. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

The offline action represents one of the best Tekken games in years and the online portion is promising, though it still needs to be properly tested by hordes of players. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

For a real-time physics engine that keeps you in the action, and a brilliant career mode that unites players of all levels of interest. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

It's the grown up version of grabbing a bunch of Transformers from your toy box and acting out the final days of their doomed home world. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Like putting on your favorite sweatshirt or curling up in bed and re-reading a great book, New Super Mario Bros. 2 is a familiar, warm, comfortable story. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Although the game is entertaining and fun to play, the sheer number of bugs encountered in the PS3 edition really need a patch. We're waiting for confirmation on if the Xbox 360 and PC versions are plagued with the same issues or not. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Sleeping Dogs is both great at making a beautiful Hong Kong your playground, as well as portraying the drama hidden in its streets. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

It's a nice change of pace to see an MMORPG in a modern setting, the class-free leveling is nice, and the attention to story, detail, and setting are fantastic. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Spec Ops: The Line is a considered and thought-provoking game that deserves to be experienced for its flaws as well as for its successes. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Despite a heavy reliance on traditional massively-multiplayer role-playing mechanics, Tera's addictive active combat system is a breath of fresh air in a relatively stagnant genre. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Slicing up zombies with a chainsaw is incredibly fun, and you get to experience endearingly stupid humor fighting in boss battles. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

If you want an engaging open-world RPG with action combat to spend way too many hours playing, there are plenty that do what Dragon's Dogma fails to. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier can feel a bit ungainly, but for the most part it successfully balances stealth, tactics and all-out action. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

The action role-playing game that launched a thousand clones remains the most viscerally entertaining way to click your mouse several hundred thousand times. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

This unrelentingly grim thriller boasts great storytelling, sharply implemented mechanics and inventive multiplayer. It's the total package. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

More than just demonstrating some truly spectacular superpowers in an open world, you're doing them with a great character, James Heller, even if the game's story doesn't take any risks. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Fez is more than just adorable. It's a world that makes you want to explore every corner, and solve every obscure puzzle. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Despite its many flaws, Xenoblade is a great fix for MMO junkies and sidequest nuts. This is a world you'll want to breathe in. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

If gameplay upgrades are a key demand made by consumers of annual sports titles (ones rarely fulfilled) then Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13's improved swing control, by itself, makes the title recommendable. More »

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It's a tedious, uninspiring mess that neither pleases the franchise's old fans nor appeals to a new audience. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

The three-part chaos is fun but there's not enough to make this Resident Evil feel like something you need to experience. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

The drama might be lessened but the fighting engine is has improved significantly and the character roster ridiculously huge. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

It's still the only Major League Baseball game on the Xbox 360. That's not a hell of an endorsement, but MLB 2K12 is an improvement over MLB 2K11 in gameplay. Its visuals are plainly a disappointment, though. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Technically, it's a smooth next step in a well-loved franchise and narratively, it's still haunting me days after finishing. More »

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Street Fighter X Tekken brings together two of the greatest fighting game franchises of all time in a game that's incredibly accessible to new players. More »

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It takes all the best things from old-school RPGs and brings them into a modern format. More »

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Journey is a gorgeous, meditative game that combines disciplined design, cutting-edge technology and beautiful art into something remarkable and moving. More »

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A beloved extreme sports franchise gets rebooted with realism and asynchronous online play. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

The unusual combination of storytelling styles, along with the vibrant and detailed art design, make this short experience worth the while. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

Syndicate challenges your brain's flexibility in chaotic situations, while testing your ability to adapt to new threats. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

It's like being the Game of Thrones. You build castles and invade Kingdoms, but you also get to bang courtiers and humiliate that disappointment of a son you banished to Wales. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

For mixed martial arts fans, it's an astoundingly deep offering that could be the only game you play for long stretches. For fighting game fans, there are enough symmetries in its gameplay to make the introduction into a simulation sports title. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

After all these years it's still the best the vehicle combat genre has to offer. More »

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The allure of a portable Uncharted game is strong, but Golden Abyss feels for the most part like a cut-rate version of 2007's Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

The four-arm action is the only interesting thing about this game. And you can get that, and a better overall experience, in the original game. Everything else feels like a step backwards. From a game that came out five years ago. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

It's an extremely well-crafted action role-playing experience with all the bells and whistles fans of the genre crave and countless hours of quality hack-and-slash entertainment in a fully-realized new fantasy world. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

The core fighting remains as sharp as ever and gets tweaked with interesting changes. Also: you can fight a furry, or be a furry. More »

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It improves upon Final Fantasy XIII in nearly every way. More »

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games

It's a superb Resident Evil game and easily one of the 3DS' most impressive games. More »

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