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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Picture Worth $735
This guy paid $735 for that picture—not only that, it looks like a picture from an inkjet printer using only its magenta cartridge. eBay has ordered the hoaxer who sold the image to return the money. Meantime, our friend above could use some cheering up. That’s where you guys come in. You need suggestions? Look,…
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A Retired NFL Pro Skips the Autograph Line for a Call of Duty Lobby
Seven years ago, Hunter Hillenmeyer was signing autographs in a Jewel-Osco supermarket up in Fox Lake, Ill., the kind of ham-and-egg gig that any Chicago Bear could expect at some point in his career if he was any good. It wasn’t anyone’s idea of stressful work. Smile, pretend to be famous, collect your couple-three thousand…
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Meet Two Of Titanfall‘s Titan Classes [Update]
Hammond Robotics is the fictious contractor building those ballbreaking mechs in Titanfall, and they’d like to pat themselves on the back for the success of their latest project, the Ogre, which we saw for the first time at tonight’s VGX. [Update] And after a 20-minute musical guest and some conspicuous time filling, the VGX came…
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The Witcher 3 Delivers Another Badass Trailer
“No man who meets The Hunt returns to this world.” Well. I guess we can just go ahead and call off The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt then, right? No? Oh, well, then, feast your eyes on this premiere trailer for the game at the VGX. Go here to see much more about the 2013 Spike…
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Wow. No Man’s Sky Just Stole the Show at the VGX
This is No Man’s Sky by Hello Games, which brought us Joe Danger. This is something completely different, a sprawling space adventure, as its insane premiere trailer shows. The game is entirely procedural in all of the environments it creates, promising unique planetary environments, all of them unexplored. Sean Murray of Hello Games said he…
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Ubisoft Shows Off The Division‘s Next-Gen Engine
This is the “Snowdrop Engine” powering The Division, which spent about three minutes at the Spike VGX boasting of the detail it will deliver to “a chaotic and decayed New York City.” Not much in the way of gameplay, but If volumetric lighting, dynamic particle system and dynamic material shaders make you drool, then you’ll…
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Bungie’s Destiny Gets Another Gorgeous Trailer
Fresh off its big cover in Game Informer this week, Bungie’s next space opera, Destiny, got this closeup premiere video at tonight’s Spike VGX. The game arrives Sept. 9, 2014. Go here to see much more about the 2013 Spike VGX, including all the award categories and their nominees.
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A Closer Look At Xbox One Exclusive Quantum Break
Time stands still and stutters after an experiment gone wrong in Quantum Break, the first next-gen title from Remedy, the makers of Alan Wake. The studio showed off the game with a trailer at tonight’s VGX. Here it is. First shown off at E3, Remedy treated us to a deeper look, with gameplay, at tonight’s…
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Tomb Raider Gets A Next-Gen Facelift
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition will come to PS4 and Xbox One by the end of January, updating this year’s Tomb Raider reboot for the next-gen platforms. A specific date was not announced. [Update: Here’s the trailer!] Camilla Luddington, the voice of Lara Croft and Scott Amos of developer Crystal Dynamics introduced the game at the…
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