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Shack Chat: What is your favorite beat-em-up?

Some genres are too sweet and pure for this world. The beat-em-up, aka the brawler, brewed the perfect mix of colorful graphics, hard-hitting feedback, and fast gameplay for arcades in the '80s and '90s. They're not as prolific today outside of anthologies of golden oldies, but back in The Day, you couldn't walk into any quarter-gobbling den of iniquity (so named by parents) without tripping over quality titles from the likes of Capcom, Sega, and Konami. With Street of Rage 4 just over the horizon, the Shack staff broken open

The Mandalorian Disney+ Documentary Series Gets Trailer, With Even More Baby Yoda

Star Wars Day is less than two weeks away, and one of the most exciting events for fans is the premiere of the documentary series Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian. The eight-part show will be released on Disney+ and details the making of the acclaimed live-action Star Wars TV show. The trailer has now been released.The show reveals that the series will mix behind-the-scenes footage from the production of The Mandalorian with retrospective roundtable conversations between the filmmakers and cast. Obviously showrunner Jon Favreau appears throughout, and there's also directors such

Evening Reading – April 21, 2020

Hey Shacknews, it's time for Evening Reading. Let's officially close out our day of posting. Please take a look. SUPER MARIO MAKER 2 GAME OF THE YEAR 2019-2020 GOTY #SuperMarioMaker2 #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/MviFw9IduX — Productive Citizen ✌?????? (@technosucks) April 22, 2020 They added the SMB3 Slot Machine. No wonder Super Mario Maker 2 won Shacknews Game of the Year 2019. [embedded content] Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans may have something to say about the GOTY 2020 [embedded content] Nice song by Shofu. Stonks #AnimalCrossing #ACNH #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/yDG7icdeb8 — Productive Citizen ✌??????

HBO Is Developing A Series About Wrestling With Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

A new HBO show currently titled Tre Cnt (from Tre Count, though it could easily be misread) is in the works, with Dwayne Johnson on board to executive produce, along with Issa Rae and Danny Garcia.As reported by Variety, the show is written by Mohamad El Masri, who has previously written for HBO's Here and Now and Netflix production October Faction. Tre Cnt follows Cassius Jones, a struggling pro-wrestler and dock worker in Houston's Third Ward (The Tre). With a life-insurance payout and the help of friends and neighbors, he