Shacknews

From its humble beginnings in the early days of online video game coverage more than a decade ago, Shacknews has grown to become one of the leading gaming sites on the internet. Shacknews covers games across every major platform with news and in-depth previews and interviews, and is home to a large community of dedicated gamers.

The Shack network also includes FileShack, offering high-speed downloads of demos, patches, movies, and more. Shackvideo serves the latest streaming game videos for all the major platforms. Shacknews and its associated sites reach millions of gamers every month with the work of a small but dedicated full-time staff.

History

Shacknews was founded as sCary's Quakeholio in 1996 by Steve Gibson, as a website dedicated to id Software's then-upcoming Quake. Over the years, the website evolved and its coverage expanded. The site was later renamed Shugashack before eventually coming to be known as Shacknews.

Technology

The Shack crew is extremely proud of the technology developed for Shacknews and FileShack. All of the code featured on the network is written in-house with PHP and C++.

Shack sites are marked up in semantic XHTML 1.1, and its presentation is driven purely by CSS, keeping pages quick to load and easy to maintain.

Shacknews runs its primary sites off of an Apache2 and SQL cluster housed in Dallas, Texas.

Shacknews uses the Limelight Networks CDN service for additional image hosting.