Evening Reading - August 4, 2020

Hey Shacknews, it's time for Evening Reading. Let's officially close out our day of posting. Please take a look.

In case you missed it at Shacknews:

• Shacknews Twitch Highlights: Fall Guys beta, Ghost of Tsushima, and Grounded
• Sports games that need to be rebooted
• 4YMM levels are the best thing going in Super Mario Maker 2 today
• Shack Chat: What would make you buy an Xbox Series X?
• Fairy Tail interview: Building a fantasy with producer Keisuke Kikuchi
• Microsoft Flight Simulator preview: Next-gen arrives ahead of schedule
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate update 8.1.0 patch notes adds Small Battlefield stage
• Fall Guys got review bombed & then 'positive review bombed' during server downtime
• Carrion recently changed its suggestive Nintendo Switch icon
• 2020 video game release dates calendar

Who else wants this Xbox?

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And now... Other Stuff From The Internet!!!

Advice on being a father

Real talk pic.twitter.com/ODATO83aI0

— Anwar Carrots (@AnwarCarrots) August 3, 2020

Sounds like good advice to me.

Sacred Heart: A Scrubs Video Game

This side-scrolling beat-em-up pits Turk and JD against The Todd and all sorts of other good stuff. I'm no Superman, but this game looks pretty cool considering it was the product of a game jam.

Phil Schiller moves to new Apple Fellow role

This is a big deal for @Apple. I know both of these men well. ⁦⁦⁦@pschiller⁩ has been at the core of the entire Apple renaissance. And Greg Joswiak is a really smart, capable executive who has launched many historic products. Congrats to both! https://t.co/0gfGchFRjc

— Walt Mossberg (@waltmossberg) August 4, 2020

Greg Joswiak will succeed Schiller as Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing.

Cognitive Dissonance with the Jaboofer in Chief

.@jonathanvswan: “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.”@realdonaldtrump: “You can’t do that.”

Swan: “Why can’t I do that?” pic.twitter.com/MStySfkV39

— Axios (@axios) August 4, 2020

We are in big trouble, America.

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