Evening Reading - March 18, 2025

It's nighttime in America, which means it's time for another episode of Evening Reading.

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Welcome, Shackers, to the end of another fine Tuesday. It’s been an incredible day of reviews and previews. Much of our team is away at GDC 2025 in San Francisco this week, so that means much more thrilling content is on the way. That said, today’s posting is coming to a close and it’s time to settle it with another Evening Reading. Please enjoy.


In case you missed it at Shacknews…


And now… More stuff from The Internet!!!

Them wild-eyed Shacknews boys

Away team is killing it at GDC 2025 this week. Good luck to Donovan, Ozzie, and Greg as they work hard to bring you all sorts of good content!


Don’t tell the king his kingdom is dead

You will never convince the director of Baldur’s Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin that single-player games don’t have still a place in this world.


Square Enix goes HAM on its new sale ad, with Ben Starr’s help

Final Fantasy 16 is the best thing that ever happened, if only because it introduced us all to the absolute gem that is Ben Starr.


Put the fries in the bag and he appears

Joe Hendry is quickly becoming my favorite current wrestler. Stellar in the ring, stellar on the mic, stellar on socials. The whole package.


Sorry Nata

Actually, based on what happened to him, I’d think Nata would be all for the killing.


T-1000 almost makes me want to play MK1

The liquid terminator walk out of the fire is pretty damn good, I have to admit.


RDE does Q moves

This guy is always hilarious, but he caught me off guard with the Q move set tonight.


That’s the Evening Reading for this March 18, 2025. We hope you’ve enjoyed our coverage and invite you to dig deeper into our space if you enjoy what we’re doing. There’s always more coming. You can support us through programs like Shacknews Mercury, where you can pitch in as little as a dollar a month to help us out. Don’t have a dollar? Don’t need one to play Shackpets. It’s our free app on iOS and Android where you can engage in the ultimate battle of pet cuteness. If that’s not enough, there’s also Bubbletron, which lets you create your next billion-dollar idea from a daily randomized set of prompts. Can you figure out the right combo to get the day’s highest valuation and the Money Hat?

Bubbletron values a start-up for a Next Generation Cultivated Meat Laser Beam at $5,910,000,000
Look, I don't know what it takes to turn meat into laser form - we'll have to do some testing - but you can fire it straight into my mouth once it's safe and perfected.
Source: Bubbletron

Have a great night, readers. We’ll see you tomorrow for a fresh day of gaming and tech news.

Senior News Editor

TJ Denzer is a player and writer with a passion for games that has dominated a lifetime. He found his way to the Shacknews roster in late 2019 and has worked his way to Senior News Editor since. Between news coverage, he also aides notably in livestream projects like the indie game-focused Indie-licious, the Shacknews Stimulus Games, and the Shacknews Dump. You can reach him at tj.denzer@shacknews.com and also find him on BlueSky @JohnnyChugs.

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