Shack Snack: May 28, 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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In 2012, Bethesda opened a second gaming studio in Austin, TX, the same neighborhood as Dishonored developer Arkane Studios. The studio would be dubbed Battlecry Studios, headed by former Star Wars: The Old Republic executive producer Rich Vogel. While the studio had begun soliciting jobs, there was next to zero information given on the studio's first project, nor would anything be revealed through the entirety of 2013.
Today, Battlecry Studios has officially unveiled its first project: an animation-driven third-person class-based multiplayer action combat game, appropriately (if unremarkably) titled Battlecry. This free-to-play game is set to come exclusively to PC and Shacknews recently had the opportunity to try it out.
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replySteven Wong posted a new article, Shack Snack: May 28, 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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I think this is the first time I've seen that issue pop up, but yes, today's video was a little darker than usual.
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Find them on the front page each day, typically around the 9pm EDT/6pm PDT timeslot. You'll also find the link in Chatty if you scroll down. Or you can simply find the videos on our YouTube page.
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Just a thought but from what I remember videos could be embedded at the top of the chatty. Might be worth trying tossing the shack snack of the day up there (with autoplay turned off) or some other big videos of the day up there.
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Hmm...you might have something there...
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Hey, it worked!
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Looks good.
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Keep this, love it
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And get that poor girl some better lighting. :-/
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Yeah the lighting is really off.
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Awesome!
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Good start now dump youtube and check out WebM.
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Dunno.
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Yeah that's one feature from chrome shack I want stock. Images, video, and gif links opening as an embedded version when clicked rather than navigating away or opening up another page.
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Same here.
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It's more of an eye catcher. A lot of new content pieces tend to disappear in current news feed so it's at least more prominent this way.
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and now i've finally watched a shack snack video. that's a good spot for them.
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Not seeing it embedded via shack browse.
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Just thought I would point it out since so many of us are using alternative access methods that might not see it if that's the only way it's posted.
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I really like the video being at the top of the chatty. Very good call.
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the lighting in another video was fine, probably just the setup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty9UVXy4PW8
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It looks good and is well produced but getting your news updates by video is pretty slow, and I dunno, it just doesn't do it for me.
What I'd love to see in the Shack is you guys using your industry connections and bridging those with the community. By that I mean things like:
- Getting questions from the community to ask devs. I see this come up again and again and the questions are usually really good.
- Bring developers into the Chatty for Q&A sessions, then take the output of that and turn that into an article to post on the website.
I kind of feel like I can get my news anywhere and unless you want to throw the same resources at this as IGN does, it'll always come off second best. I think the Shack could be a place for more creative articles and stories.-
We're definitely trying to get some more developer interviews on the site where Chatty gets to ask the questions, and eventually we would love to host them right on Chatty. These videos are just ideas that we're experimenting with, and we're still trying to get the timing down to see if they're editorially valuable.
And yes, Sam needs some better lighting. The crew are working on that!-
The only thing about doing it in the chatty is to avoid Firefall shenanigans where the dev encourages their community to show up and shill and it devolved into an absolute mess.
http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=26743489#item_26743489
http://www.shacknews.com/article/70114/firefall-preview
http://www.shacknews.com/article/70240/firefall-adds-pets-ability-to-despawn-enemy-companions?id=26731237
http://www.shacknews.com/article/70255/firefall-morgan-rhoulette-romaine-esports?id=26741742
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