


Super Smash Bros. plus Jackie Chan: Watch a fight scene with Super Smash Bros. sound effects

Sponsored
Alienware’s Alpha “Steam Machine” gets $50 discount & gift card bonus

Yesterday’s San Francisco storm made it rain — tweets, that is

Shopaholic scalper bots are on the rise, which means fewer bargains for you

Review
Sneaky Sneaky is the adorable Assassin’s Creed game you never knew you wanted (review)

Shutterstock falls 13% following Adobe’s entrance into the stock photo industry

Google Analytics will drop IE9 support on January 31

Apple backpedals on its censorship of Papers, Please

How Minecraft may make bitcoin the ‘official currency of virtual worlds’

New Relic, Hortonworks IPO success predicts good times ahead for their competitors in enterprise tech

Tech VCs poured millions into media companies in 2014 — but it’s not clear why

Yahoo sites start telling Chrome, IE users to ‘upgrade’ to Firefox

VB Insight
Social media: We complain 879 million times/year (and Facebook is our top target)

Google Earth API will be retired on December 12, 2015

Xbox One gamers having trouble using Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s new AE4 Widowmaker weapon

This is the best ‘All About That Bass’ parody, from NASA

France cheers and weeps as Lending Club IPO makes Renaud Laplanche fantastically rich … in the U.S.

Analysis
How Zelda Wii U and Nintendo were big winners during ‘The Game Awards’ and PlayStation Experience

What to Think, Ep. 33: Highlights of 2014 in tech and social media

Watch the Halo Championship Series in Columbus live right here

BlackBerry updates BBM with support for Android Lollipop, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus screens, new iOS 8 look

Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place

GamesBeat weekly roundup: PlayStation Experience, Goblins vs. Gnomes, and PS4 goes to China

Zuckerberg’s advice for entrepreneurs: ‘What ends up mattering is the stuff you get right’

Snail Games unveils Android gamer smartphone and console for CES

Shuffler.fm wants to move beyond music curation and cure ‘digital obesity’ on the whole Web

Exclusive
8 surprising energy stats to remember from 2014

Call of Duty and Destiny are the top two best-selling console games of 2014

The DeanBeat: A tale of two celebrity mobile gaming ads

Exclusive
AAA copied Uber’s call-and-cancel tricks, says roadside assistance rival

Exclusive
Email rules, A/B testing is overrated, and other surprising marketing tips from startups

Hortonworks starts trading at $24 per share, jumping 50% as investors swoon over big data

IsoHunt unofficially resurrects The Pirate Bay

New Relic debuts hot on the NYSE above $30 per share

Havok celebrates 15 years of cool interactive physics effects in games

Workiva, maker of business reporting tools, hits the NYSE at $14 a share

SuperAwesome launches an advertising platform that it says can safely target kids

Scalpers turn 20th anniversary edition PS4 charity launch into a money grab
