What’s the secret to good video game box art? I think it can be boiled down into a few key ingredients: memorability, readability and beauty. Naturally video games have an innate emotional factor too; ...

Shack Chat is back once again, our weekly feature where each Friday where we’ll ask the Shacknews staff to give their opinion on a particular topic, then open the floor to our dedicated Chatty ...

In Art Of The Game, Nick Wanserski explores how visual design shapes video, tabletop, and role-playing games. Atari 2600 box art is well loved and rightly revered. Some of that can be chalked up to ...

Joshua grew up in poverty, deep in the Middle of Nowhere, Alabama. Gaming was a rarely afforded escape from reality that persisted throughout his life, something that saw him through good times and ...

It would also be the ultimate reverse psychology box-art. With such lo-fi artistry, the modern consumer would expect a product of equally primitive standards. But they'd get super sexy Wipeout and be ...

As a decade, the '80s weren't all bad. A lot of us were born during it, after all. Other than that, though, it was pretty shitty. Unless you were on drugs, we're guessing. Aside from having the worst ...

Sebastian Hansen, Danielle Brooks, and Emma Myers in “A Minecraft Movie” (Credit: Warner Bros.) Not even the most optimistic projections for Warner Bros./Legendary’s “A Minecraft Movie” had it on the ...