Evening Reading - April 27, 2026

It's nighttime in America, which means it is time for another edition of Shacknews Evening Reading.

Good evening, Shacknews, it's nighttime, which means it's time for Evening Reading. Let's officially close out our day of posting. Please take a look.

In case you missed it at Shacknews:

• Steam Controller Review: Feels good, man
• Valve developers talk Steam Controller design and what they have learned from making hardware
• Directive 8020 wants you to feel the weight of every decision
• iicon 2026 event schedule
• How Rockbeasts landed Iggy Pop to play a dog and built an episodic management sim
• Assassin's Creed Game Director Benoit Richer leaves Ubisoft for indie studio Servo Games
• Capcom increases FY 2025 sales and profit forecast on strong Resident Evil Requiem sales
• EA Sports UFC 6 officially announced with cover stars Alex Pereira & Max Holloway
• China attempts to block Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus AI company
• Alien: Isolation sequel gets first teaser

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

Your daily dose of sudoku

Simon has his head in his hands = excellent puzzle.

Making chalk

I remember watching a video about some people stockpiling some boxes of chalk from a company that went out of business.

From chalk, to pens

There's no way a pen is worth that much.

Coffee time

How do you take your cup of joe?

Challenge run

Never heard of this game before, but I'm here for it.

Mario Kart World has some strange locations

Did you know we made a Mario Kart World map that shows all the collectibles?

Brink was a video game

We thinking these locks will be any good?

Emulation is pretty interesting

GPU powered? How are they normally powered, through the CPU?

The longest ride in existence

Sit back and enjoy this one, it might take a while.

There you have it, Shacknews, your Evening Reading for tonight. Stop by Shackmaps for the best interactive video game maps on the internet. You can also support Shacknews by checking out Shackpass so you can dig into Shackfile as well as our Shackshop for awesome t-shirts, hoodies, and other gear.

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