We're happy to announce today that the Shacknews family is growing, with three more writers joining us. You'll start to see their work in the coming days and weeks, but in the meantime be sure to give them all a hearty welcome to the community.
(And yes, we're aware of the date. Trust us, this announcement is no joke.)
Cassidee Moser: Cassidee is a young up-and-coming writer who has quickly made a name for herself with credits on IGN, GamesRadar, Kill Screen, and more. She'll be writing features, attending preview events, and fielding interviews for Shacknews.
David Craddock: Plucked from our very own Chatty community, David has more than ten years of experience under his belt. His credits include Joystiq, Official Xbox Magazine, PlayStation: The Official Magazine, and RETRO Videogame Magazine, along with a published book on the history of Blizzard. He'll be writing daily news and regular long-form features.
John Keefer: Like Hotel California, you can never really leave Shacknews. Veteran game journalist and once-and-always-a-Shacker "Keefinator" returns to us, exercising his years of experience to roam between news and features duties as needed.
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, Say Hello to Our Three New Writers
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This is awesome news! Welcome aboard, new (and returning) writers!
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Weeeey! Congrats!
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Great stuff. Craddock has been an asset to the Chatty, so I'm sure he'll be good (notwithstanding his preference of DS 2 to DS 1)
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I definitely like the behind the scenes stuff. It's definitely something I don't see a lot of as far as gaming journalism goes.
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It's my forte. I love researching and writing that stuff.
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Dark Souls expertise is always appreciated!
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Definitely looking forward to seeing long form articles from him. Would be interesting to get short histories of the industry every now and then.
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Cool thanks!
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Return of the Keef and congrats Craddock!
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Same but it's good to see a female writer working for the site and Kill Screen has had some pretty interesting articles so it would be cool to see stuff like that coming to the site.
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Holy crap, I forgot. Sorry!
Well anyway, cool to see more people here.
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I'm old school. What's Twitch? ;)
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GAAAAAAAHHHHH!
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Short for Tourette syndrome
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YES! YES! YES!
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Holy crap, I'm excited for all 3 of those people coming to the site. Nice work Sharknews!
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is it interesting?
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Mods??
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it's a fair question!
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Yes! Buy it and his book about rogue likes now!
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Awesome news.
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The Keefster and Craddock are back, w00t!
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Congrats to the new gal, as well!
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We now have TWO women working for us. HUZZAH!
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Pics or something something
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Three, Jen works for us behind the scenes too! She was also the star of our 8 Bit Cuisine videos.
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Yes, I'm hungry.
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More women? Well - both Steve and I have daughters, so I guess we're technically making more women behind the scenes.
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Nope. She does a lot of our day to day office management stuff. She helps us secure review copies, she makes sure everyone gets paid, and a bunch of stuff. Truly an unsung hero.
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We know sharks love fresh meat
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I've never even seen Jaws. Be gentle.
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Me either honestly. But cultural osmosis sure makes it feel like I have.
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I can hum the tune! Therefore, qualified.
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I already hate you. I will make it my life mission to get you fired so that we can leave you bleeding like a poor little turtle attacked by a trio of sharks.
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You're not missing much. Monster shark terrorizes beach goers. Monster shark gets killed.
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Dat theme music, doe.
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Just saw this. Thanks for the warm welcome (back), Chatty! Look forward to my first long-form feature on why Dark Souls 2 rules and Bloodborne drools! WOOOO!
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You are already dead to me.
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When is the new heritage book coming out???
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Soon! It's a trilogy now. Because epic fantasy.
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What a mean April Fools joke. Two of the Shackers were really looking forward to writing articles here and being paid in nothing but Twinkies and Ding Dongs. This just got their hopes up for nothing!
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well played SharkShacknews. I don't always agree with David in chatty, but he is a damn fine writer. I don't know Cassidee - hope she is ready to jump into Chatty. As for Keef - welcome back sir. That was about as fast a turnaround after a layoff that I have seen in a while. Being part of the 'older' crew on here, Keef has one of my all time favs that worked and wrote here. Cool.
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Which of these new staff will be writing the fishing planet review?
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Keef and Craddock!! YES!
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I don't know Cassiddee
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What, my restaurant reviews weren't good enough?
Rigged!
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KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEF!
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Hello. Shark.
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Excellent!
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Three quality hires! Yay! Congrats to Cassidee and David! Welcome back Keef!
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It's the Holy Trinity! Great news on all three, - I think it pretty much covers the whole spectrum of experience too which is nice. Great work and congrats!
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Yay, welcome to the three of you!
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Today is a good day!
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You assumed correctly... 9 years ago. ;)
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BLOODY HELL!
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You don't know!
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Rule 1 of Sharknews: Never trust a shark.
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Awesome!
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Welcome all. And somehow, I feel like Remo should be on that list, not that it's a bad list.
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I am really happy to have such great people come on board.
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Thanks, boss.
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Happy to see you join the team!
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When can we expect a preview on the Street Shark revival show?
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Return of the Morning Keefinated? Hmmmm ....
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This thread makes me happy!
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MUCHO EXCITE
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This is fantastic. Welcome and welcome back!
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Yes you will. :)
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Nice!!!! Congrats guys - I can't wait to see what you publish on here!!
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Way to go shugarshark!
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