Super Smash Bros. plus Jackie Chan: Watch a fight scene with Super Smash Bros. sound effects
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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
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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
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AAA copied Uber’s call-and-cancel tricks, says roadside assistance rival
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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
