Evening Reading - July 13, 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:

• QuakeCon 2026 will be a place for celebration, mourning, and outrage
• Say My Name: What it takes to make it to the Games Done Quick stage
• Counterplay Games CEO talks Armatus
• How to get to Feybreak Island in Palworld
• Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls taps award-winning writer Kieron Gillen for Episode Mode
• Turok: Origins game gesigner talks about the franchise's revival
• GDQ cancels SNK-sponsored stream & refuses funds due to Saudi Arabia PIF ownership
• Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler 2 get Switch 2 ports this October
• Dark Scrolls review: Ghosts 'n Grinding
• Digital Extremes announces new Soulframe content including mounts and, of course, Ben Starr

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

Your daily dose of sudoku

A short one but a good one.

Sometimes it's good to be wrong

Doom on one more thing.

Dark Souls through the eyes of a shrink

Solaire is the best.

Learning more about those Dark Souls characters

He's such a strange person.

Unbelievable stuff. Or totally believable, actually

No respect for the art.

Remember Time Crisis?

I played the heck outta Time Crisis at a small Aussie arcade called Replay.

Terminator 2 has got to be one of my favorite films

Movies don't look or feel like this anymore. Mostly.

Spin to win

The science behind flailing.

I like to think of the X and Y being the axis

As for A and B? First two letters, innit?

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