Evening Reading - August 26, 2025

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

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Welcome, Shackers, to the end of another Tuesday. It’s a rare quiet time between shenanigans, but you’d best believe that won’t last long. We’ve got some big reviews and features coming up, plus coverage of PAX West. Gamescom goodies are still flowing and plenty of more coverage is on the way. For now, it’s time to close down another rare, normal Tuedsay with our Evening Reading. Enjoy!

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Cyberpunk music in Guilty Gear hitting real good

Lucy brought a lot of Edgerunners and 2077 music with her and I’ve been loving it for Strive’s new Ranked grind.

Little fellows in trees beware

You never know what mythical creature you’ll be mistaken for in a world of fantasy.

Accounting for the important things

In which the Ninja Gaiden 4 devs go into deep detail on how they worked to get the Izuna Drop right.

Friendly flawless run tips

It's okay to drop a guy off a steep cliff. You didn’t kill him. The fall and gravity did it.

In Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater it’s okay. I can’t stress that enough. In the game it’s okay.

That’s some fancy gunplay

Amazing to see the motion capture that went into Ocelot for Metal Gear Solid Delta.

The new Silent Hill movie teaser

The movies have been hit or miss, but I really liked the first one for all of its flaws. Really curious to see how this one goes.

Heated gaming moment

The problem being they’re both technically right.

Switch 2 mouse mapping further explained

I continue to believe this will be a bigger factor than gimmicks on Nintendo systems usually are simply because the applications seem far more practical and the execution seems to work.

There you go. That’s your Evening Reading for this August 26. We hope you’ve enjoyed our work and we promise there’s always more coming. You can support us through programs like Shacknews Mercury, where you can pitch in as little as a dollar a month to help us out. Don’t have a dollar? Don’t need one to use Shackmaps. It’s an interactive map we’re expanding to fit your favorite games, such as Mario Kart World. If that’s not enough, there’s also Bubbletron, which lets you create your next billion-dollar idea from a daily randomized set of prompts. Can you figure out the right combo to get the day’s highest valuation and the Money Hat?

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