Evening Reading

by Garnett Lee, Feb 18, 2011 5:00pm PST

This is one of those three-day holiday weekends with signature sporting events here in the United Stated. The NBA makes a weekend out of the midseason break with the Rookie Challenge tonight, 3-pt and Slam Dunk Contests tomorrow night, and then the All-Star game Sunday. NASCAR starts the season with its "The Great American Race", the Daytona 500.

Seems to me a couple of games missed out on their chance be part of the weekend's festivities. Bulletstorm and Killzone 3 both come out next week, but plenty of people would have enjoyed making their weekend out of either of them. Granted, it's not an issue outside the US, but if either had released this past week...well, it's hard to beat a three-day weekend and a new game. Eh, maybe it's for the best; it just means more time for Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and catching up on all the other games I want to play.

Here are the top video game news stories from today on the Shack:

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It's one thing to have followers who hate the change, but the New Shack front page strikes me some some poorly, auto-filled squatter page. It looks... cheap.

http://www.shackpics.com/files/NewsHubShacknews_tn5aha6nhjri68pod7r7.png

How could someone pretend that light blue, pink and a white background represents this community after all these years of our darker heritage?

Is this for really real?

Feb 18, 2011 7:25pm PST

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It's one thing to have followers who hate the change, but the New Shack front page strikes me some some p : Rigg5
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  The "Arm Wrestling With Time" franchise is really taking off quickly. : slax0r
  - its already got a sequel : Disarray
- Nope it's fake. : not work safe
- yeah it should be kept dark. goddamn my eyes need a break from all the gaming. : MurrayTheSkull
- I don't mind the look except for the top bar - that dark blue bar cutting to a banner ad then a white pag... : re-verse
- Since when did the front page "represent the community"?? : maulla
- Agreed, it looks cheap and uninspired. At the end of the day let the market will decide how well it i... : Porkasaurus
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  I've been sitting here scrolling up and down on the old and new news pages, and I quite like the new one.... : Dave-A
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    I'm so sick of hearing this. Yes. We do. Even if we don't admit we do, we do. Here's how it goes: - Come... : .ka`boom.zZz.
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      - Scroll through the front page looking for Evening Reading, or Morning Discussion. That seems a lot ... : Haxim
      
      or like, going straight to shacknews.com/latestchatty.x (I use the RSS for the front page, like a civi... : Agrona
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      Lies - no one scrolls the articles to look for the chatty links! You scroll the articles to see if there... : Kiyohime
      
      this is how i do it : Makenxero
  - I like some parts of the old better than the new, but I definitely prefer the new to the old overall. I'... : TheVietSpecial
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  shacknews.com is your gateway to finding all products shacknews and the best shacknews deals - shackne... : Happy Doodle Muffin
  - It really does look like a domainsquatter search page. I think the logo text is worse in two lines than ... : the archvile
  - - find love ladyboys online : slax0r
  - LOL : opengl128
  - That really is the new design? Hmmm... Do not want. : Carstman
- There's a frontpage? : Carnivac
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  That isn't the front page, that's the news page. Whoever took that screenshot also highlighted the top me... : Frozen Pixel
  - What's the front page look like? : pwnage1232
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  This kind of looks a lot like the new Kotaku layout. : lyme
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    The new kotaku and gizmodo pages are terrible. Sometimes good ideas just don't work out. Th activity of r... : flasher 907
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      Oh wow j/k work as up/down nav. Ok I'm intersted. : flasher 907
      
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      forget it. the article page loads are too slow. click. : flasher 907
      
      click. : Draugluin
  - no, this doesn't look or behave anything like the new Gawker layout...but from now on, whenever someone d... : CecilPhilpot
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    IT'S LIKE THEY HIRED HITLER AS THEIR WEB DESIGNER : Sapiens
    - No, he's only consulting. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  with pink it's like they are turning the Shack in to GirlShack !!! : TroZ
  - I thought that was because of m'sync : Haxim
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  like Diablo 3, NewShack just isn't dark enough : CecilPhilpot
  - It also comes with FUCKING RAINBOWS! : SigENeaT
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  it's too white but what are ya gonna do. i'll get used to it i suppose : dantastic
  - I miss the old front page having a black background. It'd be nice if a "black and blue" profile could be... : the archvile
  - racist : flasher 907
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  I think it represents this community perfectly. : g.lee
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    You trollass bastard. I love it. : Rigg5
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      Me too : g.lee
      
      glee! : sharpie
- I don't like the white background either, but I'm not terribly concerned about the front page quite frank... : thetangent
- I hate it all but ultimately I cannot stand alone against the shitty darkness. : massdev
- That's kind of uncomfortable to look at. : The Wilhelm Scream
- this is how the frontpage feels right now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUj1JuXRvgc : PlanetPerfecto
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  If the CSS styling is smart and not a clusterfuck, it'd be easy enough to put together a stylesheet to tu... : Matt Burris
  - I always assumed someone would make a greasemonkey script to return the frontpage to more like we remembe... : jbury
  - From the previews it looks pretty well put together, so skinning it wouldn't really be much of a chore. I... : yosemiteclimber
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  "Cheats" tab? Really? : nwillard
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    It's better than the 3 separate links that are there now though. : Haxim
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      But come on, you cannot deny that it's handled so much better and more subtly with the small bar at the t... : nwillard
      
      *subtle : nwillard
  - this has been pointed out before, look at the top of this page. there's nothing wrong with cheat code... : xxiv
  - FFS. CHEATS is the most popular keyword used in search engines to find shit. THAT'S why it's there. It... : Druuge
- I think it does look pretty poor. Joystiq looks far better and more current, and wouldn't be hard to trum... : Bamtan
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  I don't mind color changes, but I think it looks amateur and awful. : underground banana plantation
  - It's been faggified, and not in the good way. still, the original rule still applies. just don't chang... : PlanetPerfecto
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  Seconded, this really is a terrible design - Gamefly take a lesson from Gawker and go back to the drawing... : even4
  - I think the diagonal lines, blend of blue, purples and pinks is fine. I like the new logo too. All these ... : Bamtan
- I don't have so much a problem with the color scheme but instead the general design and layout - its basi... : sonicstorm
- Agreed. It looks pretty much hideous. :( : wytefang
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  This isn't the front page, it's the news page. The front page barely has any text on it, it only has news... : jeffmoeller
  - So, the quality of the front page depends on the quality of the screenshots used? I still see pink and... : Rigg5
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  Wow, that front page is bad. That huge white header has to go (though it appears to be the only spacing b... : dotpain
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    You accused the design of lacking class, and then your criticism of the color palette was "Go fuck yourse... : Dave-A
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      seriously, white pink and blue? is this a maternity site? I stand by it. And asking people to "like" your shit before they even get to the content is pretty lame.
      
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      seriously, white pink and blue? is this a maternity site? I stand by it. And asking people to "like" your... : dotpain
      
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      Chill out, fella! No one is asking you to "like" their shit. It's a peek of upcoming changes for interest... : Dave-A
      
      be as condescending as you want, it's still a bad design : dotpain
- my problem is the link colors Compare http://arstechnica.com/ to http://www.shackpics.com/files/NewsHu... : kaddar0
- white/black/blue/pink as a primary palette is a bold move given the paced evolution of the brand over the... : emcea
- I don't see what's wrong with the current design. : David Craddock
- Oh, bitch bitch bitch. : Dschinghis Khan
- big deal. noone will even remember this design in a few weeks : xsii
- So far I've been telling myself that someone will surely come to their senses and come up with something ... : stuka
- the return of darkshack : boomstickah

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