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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: What’s In The Box? The Winners!
A mysterious Christmas gift. A disappointed-looking man. These were the gifts I gave our image manipulating community last week. What they’ve given us is in return is pure holiday magic. As you can see from our new non-nonsense method of labeling the winner of the contest in the celebratory image, Yankton takes home the admiration…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: What’s In The Box?
This is not an expression one wants to see on Christmas morning. What could possibly upset this vaguely Chris Evans-ish model so? That’s up to this week’s ‘Shop contest participants. We’re keeping it simple one last time in 2014. We’ve got a picture of a man who seems very upset with the open holiday gift…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Ultimate Holiday Gaming Sweater: Winners!
In the spirit of this festive holiday season, last week I asked our ‘shop-savvy readers to design the most wonderful ugly video game holiday sweater of them all. I’d wear every one of these, all at once, with this Bad Dudes one on top. Thanks to the magic of putting extra text in the winner…
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Smash Mountain
No-brainers make for the best ‘Shop Contest ideas and this one was a lead-pipe lock as soon as it was spotted on Tuesday. This log flume full of Smash Bros aficionados takes the gold for best roller-coaster reaction shot of all time, but we’re going to make it better. The exploitable potential of this really…
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Up on the Roof
This week’s challenge comes again from Kotaku’s travels, but fear not, we’re not doing cosplay exploitables again. We’ll shelve that idea for a while. This time, we’re gonna throw a roof party for Nintendo of America’s super-duper green headquarters That is one of the few images we were authorized to show of Nintendo’s home turf—get…
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Northern Overexposure
Nolan North appearing in a video game is not exactly news. It’s more newsworthy when he doesn’t. But voicing The Penguin, with a canon-defying cockney accent even, is treading the limits of overexposure even for him. One reason North can get away with this is because, in addition to having great vocal range, we never…
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Photobombed Cosplay Winners
Last week we served up 13 of the most exploitable cosplay pics from at Comic-Con 2011 for you to corrupt even further. Many entered, only one will win! Who is it? OK, yeah, it’s that guy above. But see inside for the other 19 finalists! Gofunaki22 (5) kicks things off with a very topical entry.…
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Photobombed Cosplay
OK, team, if you’ve been paying attention, we’ve been hinting at this week’s ‘Shop Contest subject for the past four days. We’ve rounded up a dirty dozen of the most exploitable cosplay pics so far from Comic-Con 2011. It’s up to you to bring the more-funny! Your mission awaits inside! Our theme begins with an…
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Chillin’ with Chell Winners
Last week’s ‘Shop Contest served as a warmup for the cosplay explosion of San Diego Comic-Con 2011. We’ve got several entries that will be hard to follow. This week’s top 20 awaits you inside! Off the bat, Koda89 (12) came up with another animated entry that we have to present as a YouTube video. Go…
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Board Game Box Art
This week we learned of World of Fourcraft, a game that turns New York into a giant game of real-life Risk. That got me to thinking about the box art that predated today’s video game packshots, and thus our latest Kotaku ‘Shop Contest challenge. Somewhat open-ended yet plainly straightforward: Take a video game and give…
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Caught ‘Em: Winners
Our latest ‘Shop contest took inspiration from the capture of the notorious gangster Whitey Bulger. We’ve got a list of the 20 most wanted ‘shops inside. Their crime? First-degree hilarity. Given the go-ahead to use Asshole Dog, Cilixblade (3) struck first. Companion Cube (5) followed with a quick ‘shop. Everyone knows how I love that…
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Shield Posing Winners
Last week we asked you to consider the Wii U controller as a window to a new world. We’ll go through the looking glass with the 20 best ‘shops, but first, a public service announcement from your local Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. I want to apologize to everyone for the image uploading problem last week. Whether…
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Smackdown vs. 3DS Winners
The strange appearance of an Aqua Blue 3DS capturing the action at a pro rasslin’ event provided the grist for our latest Kotaku ‘Shop Contest, in which the Nintendo handheld makes 20 cameos just as bizarre. Getting things started, Bet@ (2) calls back to our L.A. Noire contest with a shifty-eyed Sheamus. BigMike McCarthy’s joke…
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AR Games in Real Life
Headline’s kind of a misnomer because, the deal with the augmented reality games on the 3DS is, they are kinda-sorta played in real life. But not the way we’re gonna play them. See, I have this silly belief that the AR characters are real, and they’re all around us, we just can’t see them. Only…
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Adventures in Babysitting — For Sony
Some snippiness from Sony’s CEO provided the grist for last week’s ‘Shop Contest challenge, in which we explored the challenges of child rearing by those who gave us the PSP. We’ve got 20 hot and fresh ‘shops waiting for you inside! Let’s get things started with frequent flyer boopadoo (4), who racks up the Sony…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Google Tributes of the Future
Google’s playable doodle acknowledging Pac-Man’s 30th birthday on Friday created quite a stir. The game is still on the Google front through the weekend, but that got me wondering: What about future game anniversaries? What about Tetris? What about Super Mario Bros? And those are just the reasonable ones. How will Google acknowledge the 30th…
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How to Create Old-School Video Game Box Art
Since its introduction in January, the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest has been a popular weekend feature. If you’re looking to brush up your skills creating a subject marginally relevant (spoiler alert) to tomorrow’s challenge, here’s an excellent tutorial. Power commenter Deanbmmv sent along this step-by-step how-to for making box art reminiscent of the 1980s console days.…
By Owen Good