Shack Snack: May 19, 2014
End your day with a Shack Snack, a short recap of three big stories you should know. It's like a CliffsNotes for video games! If you enjoy, don't forget to subscribe to us on YouTube.
YouTube acquires Twitch for more than $1 billion
Rare suffers layoffs following Kinect Sports Rivals launch
Microsoft first-party studio Rare has reportedly suffered layoffs, following the launch of Kinect Sports Rivals. Microsoft confirmed a "change to our development process and methodology at Rare," but did not disclose the reason for the layoffs or specific numbers.
Night Trap scaring up an HD return
The Sega CD era brought us a number of infamously bad full-motion video titles, such as Slam City With Scottie Pippen, the Corey Haim-starrer Double Switch and, of course, the office favorite Make My Music Video Featuring Marky Mark.
But none could come close to the entertaining cheese level of Night Trap, a game where you protected scantily clad college hotties from a group of high tech vampires that use equipment to suck blood by setting off traps. (You know, because traps, in the night!) Well, it appears that experience is about to make an HD comeback. No, we're not kidding.
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Steven Wong posted a new article, Shack Snack: May 19, 2014.
End your day with a Shack Snack, a short recap of three big stories you should know. It's like a CliffsNotes for video games! If you enjoy, don't forget to subscribe to us on YouTube.-
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Me neither, but I'd like to :-) She doesn't appear in the list of Shacknews staffers: http://www.shacknews.com/about
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What do you think about putting the audio of this out as a podcast? None of the news sources I run through in the mornings as I cook and commute talk about games at all.
I don't think the video content in Shack Snacks is often essential to telling the stories, and it would be great to have just a quick 2-3 minute update list of the latest gaming news among my podcasts.
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