By Ozzie Mejia
Copyright shacknews
Hello, Shacknews. What a week. It’s actually Friday. Let’s mercifully wrap up the week with another round of news, memes, and entertainment. This is the Friday edition of Evening Reading.
In case you missed it at Shacknews:
Cladun X3 review: Dungeons, dungeons & more dungeons
New Virtua Fighter Project producer on Wolf’s redesign & evolving the game
Tim Cook says iPhone price increase has nothing to do with tariffs
Elden Ring Nightreign’s next update to fix Deep of Night wins not increasing Depth rank
Under Night In-Birth 2 Sys:Celes devs talk Izumi DLC & music
Microsoft raises Xbox console prices in the United States yet again
Musk’s xAI is reportedly raising $10 billion in funding at a $200 billion valuation
Your weekly reminder to check out Shackmaps, our growing collection of video game maps to help enhance your gameplay experience!
Introducing Shackmaps – Free interactive video game maps
We now have Hollow Knight: Silksong!
And, because it’s the weekend, go find yourself something to play!
Weekend Console Download Deals for Sept. 19: Tokyo Pre-Game Show
Weekend PC Download Deals for Sept. 19: Steam TGS sales
Around the Gaming Horn
Here’s some rapid-fire news to wrap up your week.
Join the SpeedRunners 2 Open Playtest. It’s up now!
The next character pack is up for Dragon Ball: SPARKING! Zero.
Get a look at a developer overview for Baby Steps. It won’t take long for this video to establish that it’s a Devolver Digital joint.
One more thing… we’re excited to announce the voice cast for our “newest” #BlackOps7 Zombies crew:🎙️ Nikolai Belinski voiced by Fred Tatasciore🎙️ Edward Richtofen voiced by Nolan North🎙️ “Tank” Dempsey voiced by Steve Blum🎙️ Takeo Masaki voiced by Nelson Lee pic.twitter.com/shZEw6vuoH
— Treyarch (@Treyarch) September 19, 2025
Take a look at the voice cast for the Zombies portion of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. Remember that the beta begins next week and the Zombies portion of the game will see a world premiere trailer.
Finally, let’s wrap with an overview of Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade. It’s coming to Switch 2 and Xbox Series X|S in January.
And now… Other Stuff From The Internet!!!
Today in Bubbletron
Be sure to play Bubbletron today!
I didn’t stop playing until I reached 100 ranked winsI have not lost a single game.100-0. pic.twitter.com/9z2NcD8lT0
— SonicFox (@SonicFox) September 19, 2025
Gee whiz, another fighting game that SonicFox is amazing at.
For decades, Stan Lee was the king of comic conventions. Now, nearly seven years after his death at the age of 95, he will once again be a presence at L.A. Comic Con, this time as a hologram that will use AI to have conversations with fans.[image or embed]
— The Hollywood Reporter (@thr.com) September 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Two things can be true about this. First, it’s gross. Like, really gross. Second, I have no doubts that if Stan Lee were still alive today, he’d have been fully on board with this… which is also gross.
Nothing but the Hotfix
The incomparable and incredible women of Frame Fatales have set a new record. They raised $151,336 for Malala Fund during last week’s Flame Fatales marathon, which is a record for the event. On top of that, Games Done Quick has reached 1,000,000 total donations over its entire lifetime. Don’t stop what you’re doing, everyone. Keep reaching for the stars and raising money for these important causes.
GDQ’s Hotfix shows air every week and you can catch them all at the Games Done Quick Twitch account.
This week in Shaqnews
NFL LB Shaq Barrett LEAPED out of his chair to avoid his baby’s diarrhea 🤣💩(via jordanna.barrett/IG) pic.twitter.com/8KZz1aiFfd
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) September 18, 2025
What? The segment’s called “This week in Shaqnews.” It doesn’t always have to be about Shaquille O’Neal.
IT’S STILL REAL TO ME, DAMMIT!
AEW All Out kicks off from Toronto tomorrow afternoon.
Tonight in video game music
Once again, we turn to OC ReMiX, bringing you a rare mix from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
That’s it for the third Friday Evening Reading for September! Be sure to keep the spirit of the classic Evening Reading alive by jumping into the comments about whatever you see here or whatever randomness you’d like to discuss. Join the conversation and dive into the Shacknews Chatty comment thread below. If you want to go new school and find different ways to leave your feedback or talk about whatever, join us in the Official Shacknews Community Discord. I’ll see you all next week!
