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CultureShop Contest
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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CultureShop Contest
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Last Of Hot Dogs
These are strange times we live in. One of the only things keeping me sane is that Snapchat hot dog. If this meme was already a played out by the end of last week it will be a pile of ashes by next Saturday. I refuse to let this little guy go into the night…
By Ethan Gach