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CultureShop Contest
‘Shop Contest: Celebrating Our Favorite Witcher, Winners!
Geralt of Rivia deserves to do whatever he wants, so I asked you to help me achieve his dreams. I asked that Geralt be put into lots of games, and you delivered things beyond my wildest imagination. I requested Geralts, and you gave me Geralts. Most of you stuck with his skills as a hunter…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published April 21, 2018 -
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‘Shop Contest: Celebrating Our Favorite Witcher
This week contained the 10th Anniversary of The Witcher series of video games, and I think it’s appropriate that we celebrate Geralt, the lovable protagonist of those games. Personally, I think that Geralt might be one of the best characters in contemporary games. He’s often conflicted about his choices, has a sense of humor about…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published April 8, 2018 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Give Me All The Dogs, Winners!
I asked for dogs, and you gave me dogs. Lots and lots of dogs, some of them excelling at their craft, and others just hanging out. It’s the perfect storm of dogs and video games, so let me show you the submitted images that I enjoyed the most. Last week I politely requested dog mashups,…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published April 7, 2018 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Give Me All The Dogs
We’ve talked a lot about dogs a lot this week. We appreciated them in Divinity: Original Sin 2, praised them in Far Cry 5, and got sad when they were hurt. This week, I want you to put dogs in every game. There are plenty of dogs in video games. The problem is that they…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published April 1, 2018 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Everyone Loves Boats, Winners!
Well, you did it. You created some of the best ‘shops about putting characters on boats that I have ever seen. This is the kind of boating scenario where everyone wins. Last week I asked you to imagine a seafaring scenario with your favorite game characters. Just like you do every week, you delivered, and…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published March 31, 2018 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Everyone Loves Boats
Sea of Thieves is out now, and we’re finally able to sail the high seas. What other characters might be getting their boat on now? There’s something about the allure of boats. I’ve spent a lot of time cruising around in my own personal sailing vessel in Assassin’s Creed IV, and Geralt’s little single-person boat…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published March 25, 2018 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A New Challenger Appears, Winners!
Image editing brings the best out in everyone, and we’ve had some truly amazing entries centered on bringing different characters together so that they can, well, fight each other. Last week I asked you to put some new fighters in the arena together, and I was not disappointed. There were so many good ‘shops that…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published March 24, 2018 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A New Challenger Appears
Geralt is coming to Soulcalibur VI, and that means that anything is possible. What other characters could be coming to the beloved franchises of your dreams? Fighting game crossovers are nothing new. I fondly remember fighting through Soulcalibur II on my original Xbox as the beloved Todd McFarlane creation known as Spawn, and I’ve even…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published March 18, 2018 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Amiibo Gold Rush
Solaire is an amiibo now, so it’s open season for beautiful crossovers and tie-ins for maximal corporate brand-sharing initiatives. If Dark Souls can make it to the Switch, and thus get an amiibo, then anything is possible. What about television shows? Radio serials? Podcasts? Video games that already have an amiibo and just need ten…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published March 11, 2018 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Shadow Of The Tingle, Winners!
The first ‘Shop Contest in many months gave us a ton of good entries, but unfortunately they couldn’t all be Bill Gibbons of ZZ Top. Thanks to everyone who made this week’s call to ‘shopping arms a success, but especially TheRetroGamer whose winning entry was a masterpiece in both conception and execution. I would not…
By Ethan Gach Published February 11, 2018 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Shadow Of The Tingle
The world’s a different place than it was back in 2005. Maybe it’s time we had some new colossus to fight as a result. In celebration of Shadow of the Colossus’s stellar remake coming out this week, I thought it was time for us to think about what new, towering monsters we’d like to see…
By Ethan Gach Published February 4, 2018 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Trick Or Treat, Winners!
Halloween 2017. It was good times. Except for those people in The Last of Us 2 trailer. With the number of trick-or-treaters who visited my house barely in the double digits, I’ve been forced to slowly eat all the remaining candy myself. It’s a tough life. There are only so many baby Three Musketeers (how…
By Ethan Gach Published November 4, 2017 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Trick Or Treat
Some Halloween costumes are better disguises than others. In the spirit of the holiday and of not forgoing another ‘Shop Contest, this week’s prompt will be to take your favorite video game characters, past or present, and dress them up like different ones. Maybe that’s Cloud Strife bobbing for apples as a Witcher, or Zelda…
By Ethan Gach Published October 29, 2017 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Autumn Game Harvest, Winners!
Everything’s falling, from the leaves to the President’s approval ratings, and even Assassins! If you live in the Northeast, autumn hit hard this week. Monday it was shorts and a t-shirt in the most humid 80s I can remember for the end of summer. By Friday I was closing windows and raking leaves after temps…
By Ethan Gach Published September 30, 2017 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Autumn Game Harvest
It’s that time of year again. With the first day of autumn having come and gone earlier this week, it’s time to get into the spirit of the season with some epic mashups. Whether it’s apples, pumpkins, or blockbuster video games, it’s time to move from cultivating and growing to harvesting. To celebrate the changing…
By Ethan Gach Published September 24, 2017 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bad Dudes Revival, Winners!
It was the baddest of times, it was the dudest of times. This past week’s ‘Shop Contest was a tribute to gaming meme that had long been an excuse for some of the not altogether inspired entries from the contests of yesteryear. In keeping with tradition than, this week’s haul was a perfect tribute to…
By Ethan Gach Published September 23, 2017 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bad Dudes Revival
The ‘Shop Contest returns this week with a blast from the past as we celebrate a long tradition of really lazy Bad Dudes entries. “You have some pretty bad dudes on the other side,” the President said earlier this week in his latest attempt to “both sides” white nationalism and Nazis. It’s not even the…
By Ethan Gach Published September 17, 2017 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Sonic Crossover, Winners!
IDW has it’s work cut out for it if it’s going to ever realize even a fifth of the licensed Sonic and friends get togethers you’ve all dreamed up. Which is probably a good thing, because a lot of these are too hot for the page. While comic book Sonic has gone to a lot…
By Ethan Gach Published July 29, 2017 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Sonic Crossover
Did you hear? Sonic the Hedgehog got picked up by comic book publisher IDW. That means it’s only a matter of time until the furry blue runner’s first really weird crossover. The new partnership was revealed last week after Sega announced Sonic comics would no longer be coming via Archie. Naturally, everyone’s wandering what this…
By Ethan Gach Published July 23, 2017 -
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Last Of Hot Dogs, Winners!
One of the greatest video game openings of all time made somehow even better. Last week’s contest was to take the dancing hot dog and dump him into your favorite gaming locales. The enthusiasm seemed to be somewhat lacking and for a hot second I thought maybe I’d introduced one of the worst prompts in…
By Ethan Gach Published July 23, 2017