Shacknews • 14th August 2026 The Friday Knights: Heretic, Hexen, and the Origin of Raven Software Two brothers combine their artistic skills to form a company and change the face of first-preson shooters.
Shacknews • 15th April 2026 Haven't You Always Wanted to Go Diving? The Story of Nightdive Studios This Shacknews long read features an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the history of Nightdive Studios and the developers responsible for some of the company's remasters.
Shacknews • 30th October 2025 No More Secrets: The Making of Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Since 2024, Digital Eclipse has worked on one of its biggest projects in secret. The time has come to pull back the curtain on Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection—its design, its documentary, and the other ingredients that make it one of the best game collections of all time.
Shacknews • 22nd October 2025 Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted review Including all previous content plus new ways to play, Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted emerges as the best version of an already near-perfect game.
Shacknews • 30th September 2025 Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 review With HD makeovers, new control schemes, and more content, Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel are two of the best 3D platformers on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2.
Shacknews • 9th May 2025 Doom: The Dark Ages review - Rip and tear and parry id Software has crafted arguably the best Doom game since the original, one that casts players in the lead role of the ultimate power fantasy.
Shacknews • 3rd March 2025 Living the Dream: The Making of Catacomb 3-D John Romero, John Carmack, Tom Hall, and Adrian Carmack recount the making of Catacomb 3-D, the team's second FPS.
Shacknews • 9th August 2024 Doom + Doom 2 is the pinnacle of ultra-violence Following in the footsteps of Quake and Quake II’s enhanced editions, Doom + Doom 2 is not just another Doom port. It’s everything it claims to be: The definitive release of two genre-defining shooters.
Shacknews • 4th March 2024 WWE 2K24 review: Showcase of the Immortals While WWE 2K24 feels more iterative than last year's edition, the game's roster and celebration of all things WrestleMania hold enormous appeal for fans.
Shacknews • 15th February 2024 Perfect Run: The Quest to Master Resident Evil 2 and Make GDQ History For all the speedrun records set and broken at Games Done Quick (GDQ), no one had ever finished a game without taking damage. One speedrunner set out to change that.
Shacknews • 10th January 2024 Game design pioneer Jennell Jaquays passes away at 67 Jaquays broke ground in tabletop, video, and PC game design, and was a prominent advocate in the LGBTQ community.
Shacknews • 21st April 2023 How Tears of the Kingdom could tie together Zelda's timeline With Tears of the Kingdom less than a month away, Zelda fans are debating where it fits on the timeline--but what if that line isn't a line at all?
25th March 2022 Kool Stuff[7]: Floor to Ceiling: Arcade1Up on Mortal Kombat's 30th Anniversary Arcade1Up's Cyrus Rosenberg talks the company's revamped MK cabinet for the franchise's 30th anniversary, where the Supreme-branded MK cabinet came from, and what goes into licensing retro games for re-release.
18th March 2022 Kool Stuff[6]: How Video Game Ratings Have Changed Since Mortal Kombat II Long Live Mortal Kombat author David L. Craddock reached out to the ESRB to learn more about its history, and how the ESRB's ratings have changed to keep pace with the rapidly changing way we played video games.
10th March 2022 Kool Stuff [5]: Why Mortal Kombat Never Appeared on NES Long Live MK author David L. Craddock spoke with representatives from Acclaim and Sculptured Software to find out why MK1 never appeared on the NES.
Substack • 3rd March 2022 Kool Stuff[4]: Unfulfilled Nostalgia: Diamond Select Toys' Mortal Kombat Collectibles, Part 2 Diamond Select Toys's artists walk us through the making of its gallery diorama statues of Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Raiden, and Kitana.
Substack • 24th February 2022 Kool Stuff [3]: Unfulfilled Nostalgia: Diamond Select Toys' Mortal Kombat Collectibles, Part 1 Diamond Select Toys discusses the intersection between comics and collectibles, how the company chooses what types of collectibles to support in each line, and each product's multi-step process through design, sculpting, painting, and prototyping.
Shacknews • 31st December 2021 Unraveling the mystery behind Diablo's multiple release dates Diablo turns 25 today, and it turns 25 next month. Which is the true release date? The answer depends on where you lived.
Shacknews • 31st December 2021 Unraveling the mystery behind Diablo's multiple release dates Diablo turns 25 today, and it turns 25 next month. Which is the true release date? The answer depends on where you lived.
Shacknews • 15th November 2021 X Factors: Game Developers Reflect on 20 Years of Xbox Four developers share their their favorite Xbox projects to work on, their favorite games to play, and other memories on the 20th anniversary of Xbox.
