Opinion: Nintendo Has Been Awful at Explaining Switch's Features
You'd think it would want to tout such things as cloud saves and using the Joy-Con as a pointer.
READ MORE >Sorry, Wired. You don't know a thing about QuakeCon
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Asif Khan, CEO of Shacknews, will not sit by while QuakeCon and its honorable attendees are defamed.
READ MORE >"You are appropriating quakecon as some kind of shacknews event? This article is even cringier ..."
see all 60 commentsMaking A Believable Apocalypse in Video Games: From Life is Strange to Death Stranding
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How does one effectively communicate the finality of the apocalypse when it comes to gaming?
READ MORE >Cat-and-mouse: Arguing the case for Vita homebrew
Coders are looking for exploits that will enable homebrew on the Vita. But is it worth it? We look at the latest attempt to bring homebrew on Sony's successor to the piracy-laden PSP.
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see all 9 commentsEditorial: Assassin's Creed needs more than Fassbender
Michael Fassbender seems like a great choice for an Assassin's Creed movie, but video game adaptations live and (more often) die on their scripts.
READ MORE >"But... but Ben Kingsley was all it took to make Bloodrayne a good film! I couldn't even type ..."
see all 2 commentsEditorial: Diablo 3's poorly planned end-game plays to addiction, not fun
Blizzard is finally coming out and admitting something that Diablo III players realized some time ago: The end-game is "not long-term sustainable." It didn't have to be that way.
READ MORE >"I agree there. Problem is all these wow annual pass freebie peeps think its supposed to be an ..."
see all 373 commentsCounter-Point: Vita should be the greatest PS3 accessory ever
In his editorial, Steve argued that he didn't really want "a portable PS3," and urged Sony to create more unique experiences for the platform. I disagree. If anything, Sony should focus entirely on making Vita the best PS3 peripheral ever.
READ MORE >"interesting..I wonder why Sony hasn't thought about making the Vita their own version of the ..."
see all 7 commentsEditorial: Vita needs less imitation, more augmentation
This year was Vita's coming out party. The only problem? I don't really want a portable PS3. And looking at the stumbles of the PlayStation Portable, I'm not sure the market does either.
READ MORE >"I think it's perfectly fine if the content is actually new. We're getting a lot of old ports, ..."
see all 9 commentsEditorial: EA's response to FIFA 12 'money laundering' on Xbox Live, part two
Part two of our investigation on Xbox Live's FIFA 12 'money laundering' scam problems, with response from EA regarding its franchise being used as a profit tool for attackers.
READ MORE >"Ironically, my xbox live account was hacked from December 29th through January 1st, while I was ..."
see all 26 commentsEditorial: How FIFA 12 is at the heart of an Xbox Live money laundering scam, part one
On December 20, my Xbox Live account was hacked. The breach was sophisticated, more so than Microsoft wants to acknowledge, but at the heart of it is EA's popular sports franchise FIFA.
READ MORE >"Sorry, "StepTo" is full of shit. My account never left my control, and it took 30 days to get ..."
see all 43 commentsGame Installations and the NXE: The 120GB Question
Now that the New Xbox Experience is here, and has blown our minds with its transplendent introduction film (I hear there are also some new...
READ MORE >"$100 for 120gb lol what? You can get a 160gb 7200rpm drive on Newegg for under $70 and free ..."
see all 83 commentsLosing Faith: Nintendo's Ignorance of the Hardcore
Like many, I was utterly bewildered by Nintendo's E3 2008 press conference. The missing "core" game announcement was disappointing, but not quite...
READ MORE >"The sad thing is I see the video game industry looking like what the current film industry has ..."
see all 134 commentsOur Favorite Vacation Games: Shack on Holiday
With summer in full swing and the 4th of July holiday rapidly approaching, it's likely that many Shackers are gearing up for getaways to the...
READ MORE >"i've played all of the advance wars, this latest game is really quite incredible. i really ..."
see all 31 commentsTake Cover: How a Cover System Spoiled Uncharted
Having finally invested in a PS3 a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity last weekend to play and complete Naughty Dog's Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, touted as one of the highlight's of the system's software library.
READ MORE >"I agree. I think cover systems are great and should be implemented more. However, designers ..."
see all 107 commentsThe Unraveling of GameSpot's Ironclad System of Editorial Integrity
The firing of Jeff Gerstmann from GameSpot, allegedly due to his Kane & Lynch, has been so widely reported at this point as to have gone past the...
READ MORE >"On the contrary. I would say that if reviews are being targeted for people to encourage good ..."
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"Hasn't the save thing been pretty much debunked? People looked at his video and spotted a lot ..."
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