Community Spotlight News

DayZ has become one of the Shacknews community's favorite games, with a dedicated server for community members to set up shop and go on raids around nearby towns. After months of playing through the game, however, at least one Shacker has found the game a little too forgivin...

On the surface, Extreme Road Trip 2 appears to be a fun take on the endless runner genre that has rapidly filled the iOS App Store. What Etienne Giroux could not have imagined, however, was his game surpassing a million download. Giroux has been a member of the Shacknews com...

You read the chapter from Stay Awhile and Listen. Now, we chat with author David Craddock about putting the book together, including more tidbits from Diablo 2, World of Warcraft and StarCraft.

Card games are among the best-selling apps on mobile devices. Solitaire, Poker, and Blackjack are some of the easiest games to pick up and play on-the-go, as evident by gamers and non-gamers alike normally carrying around at least one iteration of a card game on their phone....

After listening to the latest Weekend Confirmed, have you had the urge to listen to a gaming podcast by Shackers, for Shackers? Three members of the Shacknews community--Billy "Mercfox1" Spies, Paul "Sexpansion Pack" Montesanti, and Jeff "geedeck" Gondek--have come together ...

Games are often considered an immersive medium, allowing players to live out fantasies that were never before possible. Willie Zutz (known to the Shack community as boarder2) has used his personal experience to create an iOS supplement to the Eagle Dynamics A-10C Warthog fli...

Ray "aurealis" Keilman's love of games prompted him to put an Easter Egg on his web design site that only one who knows the Konami Code could truly appreciate.

Polycount has been home to a large number of video game artists, both professional and amateur, since 1998. Like Shacknews, Polycount has deep...

Remember old episodes of Star Trek where Captain Kirk (or Picard, if you'd prefer) would ask for the Enterprise's computer to dim a room's lights? It was a fascinating example of what future technology would someday be capable of doing. Greg "OverloadUT" Laabs has started in...

In our newest Community Spotlight, we chat with Brad "bradsh" Huizenga about his new game Aqua Balls.

We chat with Shacknews community member James Vaughan, head of Ndemic Creations and developer of the runaway indie iOS strategy hit, Plague Inc.

ShackCon 2.0 comes to an end today, and whether you were there in person or following the antics in Chatty, a good time was had by all. The good news, no one was banned from Vegas. Check out the recap.

ShackCon 2.0 kicked off this weekend in Vegas after months of planning. We tell you what you missed and why the event is so special to the Shack faithful.

With Valve's "big picture" mode MIA, one Shacker created his own stopgap solution: Steam Control 360.