Welcome, Shackers, to the end of another fine Tuesday. It’s almost the end of October—the end of spooky season—and the start of the winter holidays. Are you ready? We’ve got plenty of great gaming to round out the year, culminating shortly in the latest year of the Shacknews Awards.
We still have November left to settle, so stay tuned for what’s next and enjoy this latest Evening Reading.
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### In Case You Missed It at Shacknews
– **Two Point Museum’s next DLC will be zoo-themed**
– **NVIDIA to invest $1 billion in Nokia; company to use proceeds to fund AI plans**
– **Battlefield 6 & its RedSec battle royale will share career & battle pass progression**
– **OpenAI non-profit restructures with majority stake in for-profit business**
– **OpenAI signs deal with PayPal to let users link wallets to ChatGPT for transactions**
– **Invincible VS adds Robot and Monster Girl and sets Closed Alpha date**
– **Don’t Nod is making a game based on a Netflix IP**
– **NVIDIA and Eli Lilly partner on AI pharmaceutical supercomputer buildout to accelerate drug R&D**
– **NVIDIA (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang announces Blackwell AI GPUs are now being manufactured in Arizona**
– **Hideo Kojima almost made a Matrix game**
– **New World: Aeternum to end support amid reported Amazon layoffs**
– **Witchspire’s relaxed vibe and survival game influences seem like a unique spin on the genre**
– **The Outer Worlds 2 review: Spectacular space escapades**
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### And Now… More Stuff From The Internet!
**The reality of bus-drifting sims**
It’s ridiculous every time I’ve seen these cars drift through the most unlikely of circumstances, when really 99 percent of them should end like this.
**Luigi’s Mansion bops**
Honestly, the whole soundtrack from Luigi’s Mansion could go on a scary cassette tape.
**The latest look at the Avatar fighting game**
I’m still not sure what to make of it yet. People enjoy Avatar, but I’m not crazy about the look of this game.
**China betters its online culture with one neat trick**
Honestly, if this happened in the US, it would be the end of a very specific kind of toxic internet culture for good.
**Three main male fantasies**
This is missing “find a really cool stick,” but it’s otherwise spot on.
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### The More Things Change
The more they stay the same. Time is a flat circle.
**French activity checklist**
Thank you for visiting France. Time to leave France.
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And there you have it. That covers your Evening Reading for October 28, 2025. We hope you stick around and see what’s ahead.
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Thanks for reading, Shackers. Have a good night, and we’ll see you fresh in the morning for more content!
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