Evening Reading - March 21, 2025

Hello, Shacknews. I'm here at the Oakland International Airport waiting on my flight home from GDC. That means it's an abbreviated round of news, memes, and entertainment for this week! This is the Friday edition of Evening Reading.

In case you missed it at Shacknews:

• Shack Together 055 - Xenoblade Chronicles X, Assassin's Creed Shadows feat. TJ Denzer
• Atomfall review: Snitches get shortcuts
• Look Outside review: Well, that was gross and uncomfortably thrilling

And, because it's the weekend, go find yourself something to play!

• Weekend Console Download Deals for Mar. 21: PlayStation Mega March
• Weekend PC Download Deals for Mar. 21: Wreckfest 2 goes into Early Access

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

Today in Bubbletron

Be sure to play Bubbletron today!

It's dangerous to Minecraft alone

It's two great tastes that go great together.

Now you're playing with Advance power

The Game Boy generation will never be beat, even if the DS did have a good run.

Nothing but the Hotfix

We're giving all the flowers to the wonderful women of Frame Fatales. They finished this year's Frost Fatales event with $150,595 raised for the National Women's Law Center. We're excited to come back after the Labor Day weekend and watch you do it all again.

GDQ's Hotfix shows air every week and you can catch them all at the Games Done Quick Twitch account.

This week in Chucknews

Charles Barkley gifts us the gift of himself for March Madness.

IT'S STILL REAL TO ME, DAMMIT!

John Cena whined and whined until Cody Rhodes came down to verbally smack him around.

Tonight in video game music

Tee Lopes is bringing some Hard Times.

That's it for the third Friday Evening Reading for March! Be sure to keep the spirit of the classic Evening Reading alive by jumping into the comments about whatever you see here or whatever randomness you'd like to discuss. Join the conversation and dive into the Shacknews Chatty comment thread below. If you want to go new school and find different ways to leave your feedback or talk about whatever, join us in the Official Shacknews Community Discord. I'll see you all next week!

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?