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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Picture Worth $735: The Winners
Our subject this week was the guy who bought a picture of an Xbox One off eBay for $735, and it will close out 2013 as one of the year’s most-entered ‘Shop Contests. I waived the usual 20-finalist limit just to get all the good ones in—and there are 37, including overall No. 1 Docherty…
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Ultra Street Fighter IV Makes a Dramatic Comeback with New Features
Ultra Street Fighter IV will get new characters and new stages when it releases next year, but it’ll also pack in a bunch of gameplay changes. This three minute trailer shows off what you can expect. Is it me, or does this Red Focus Attack thing look like a made-to-order Daigo full-parry comeback? Probably not…
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EA Sports UFC Offers the First Glimpses Inside the Game
Fight Night: Round Three was a no-doubt-about-it success when it arrived a few months after the launch of the Xbox 360. With the’ Fight Night team in charge, many are looking to EA Sports UFC to deliver the same impact for the new console generation this spring. The studio released the first two in-game screenshots…
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Dammit, Bravest Warriors bendy action figures, I am trying to Christmas shop here. Pop Culture Shock Collectibles has teamed up with Frederator Studios to create toys based on shows like Bravest Warriors and Bee & Puppycat. Thismeans that every time I go to WeLoveFine to buy Doctor Who leggings for my wife, I am being…
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Mark Ecko’s Graffiti Game Gets a New Publisher and Goes to Steam
Oh awesome. Mark Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, remember that? Didn’t work out exactly as its namesake expected—Mr. Ecko said Atari “shit the bed” with the idea. It’s still the same game, but it has a new publisher and it’s gone up on Steam. Devolver Digital, the publisher of Hotline Miami, made the surprise…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of December 9
Everyone at Gawker Media is likely currently recovering from the previous evening’s holiday party, as you read this right now. So while we nurse our hangovers, feel free to browse Kotaku Selects for the best content from this week. And don’t get carried away on your holiday shopping this year, or channelate will make a…
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Battlefield 4 Stunts Are Becoming More And More Hardcore
Locate target. Eject. Deploy package. Return to your vehicle. Sounds easy, but if your vehicle is a moving jet, and the target is a chopper high above you, things get hard. Even if it’s in Battlefield 4. Here’s YouTuber ponylion pulling off this pretty cool maneuver like it’s the easiest thing out there. That’s a…
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Thanks For Killing All Of The Animals, Mobile Gamers
Now I am no zoologist, but you don’t know that, so when I say the nearly ten billion animals shot in the surprisingly good Deer Hunter 2014 represents all the animals in the world, you should just take my word for it. After all, I am a zoologist. Not only did mobile gamers kill every…
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Angry Joe, the YouTube game critic who weighed in on the wave of copyright enforcement that snagged several of his videos, has offered a followup perspective. So has another YouTuber who believes large “multi channel networks” share in the blame. We’ve added both videos to the original post.
By Owen Good
