Evening Reading - January 20, 2022

Good evening, Shacknews, it's nighttime, which means 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:

• Windjammers 2 review: Big swingin' discs
• 10 questions about Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard
• Total War: Warhammer 3 is going all-in on player immersion
• Everything changing with Destiny 2 in Season 16: The Witch Queen
• GDC survey suggests most game developers aren't interested in NFTs
• Facebook and Instagram to enter NFT market with profile & minting features
• Destiny 2: The Witch Queen Raid release date
• Hitman 3 Version 3.100 patch notes launch Year 2 content, VR, and Elusive Target Arcade
• Twitter introduces hexagonal NFT profile pictures
• Rocket League's Neon Nights event gets dirty with Grimes next week

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

Your daily dose of sudoku

For Simon's daily sudoku challenge, he tackles one that features a rather incredible construction.

Dunkey checks out Spider-Man

I still have fond memories of playing Spider-Man 2 on my OG Xbox.

Bringing trees back from extinction

This is a rather neat look at the date trees in Israel and what it took to bring them back.

The ultimate skateboarding trick

this goes raw 🛹 pic.twitter.com/xxAamT7rhG

— Roll7 is HIRING! 🛹 (@Roll_7) January 12, 2022

Twice as cool!

A look at how a bullet would move through the universe

Adding to @duetosymmetry discussion of expansion - here’s our universe (in conformal coordinates - copied from @tamarastro) - the max a bullet can travel is the inside the shaded red area. Whilst it will “travel” forever, it will experience only a limited chunk of the universe. pic.twitter.com/pdnqi0ovnj

— Geraint F. Lewis (@Cosmic_Horizons) January 2, 2022

The constantly-expanding universe is a wild concept to wrap your head around.

The Halo 3 servers on Xbox 360 were switched off

Halo 3 Xbox 360 Servers shut down for good soon.

Respect to an unforgettable era. pic.twitter.com/H8aOEq4KIq

— ADVANCEDgg | INSTILL  (@InstillTV2) January 9, 2022

All of the emotions are coursing through my body.

Dumb window

This window is doing TERRIBLY pic.twitter.com/aKoxIJGygP

— ~ (@daniel_barker) January 13, 2022

It had every chance to get the word correct.

Losing a game in style

I’d delete the game. pic.twitter.com/UGqtZsuw0m

— Boom (@216doe) January 15, 2022

How frustrating.

Meryl Streep improvising her phone call

Meryl Streep improvised a different presidential phone call for ✨ every single take ✨ of the Oval Office scene in DON'T LOOK UP.

Here are 10 of them. https://t.co/inTvpVpBcJ pic.twitter.com/7XAe51z6AZ

— NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) January 12, 2022

Don't Look Up was such a good film.

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Sam Chandler

Guides Editor

Hailing from the land down under, Sam Chandler brings a bit of the southern hemisphere flair to his work. After bouncing round a few universities, securing a bachelor degree, and entering the video game industry, he's found his new family here at Shacknews as a Guides Editor. There's nothing he loves more than crafting a guide that will help someone. If you need help with a guide, or notice something not quite right, you can message him on X: @SamuelChandler