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Shannon Liao

New York

Gaming Editor at Inverse

Writer at Freelance

Video games journalist/editor @inversedotcom previously at @washingtonpost @CNN subscribe to my newsletter for bespoke stories ✨ email: [email protected]

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  • 'Arcane' Spinoffs Are Still In A "Developing and Exploration Phase," Creators Tease

    1 week ago | inverse.com | Shannon Liao

    One of the most touching scenes in Arcane Season 2 comes when Jinx confronts the specter of her adoptive father, now metamorphized by a science experiment into an inhumane beast named Warwick. Eyes seething red, he’s poised to take her out, but something within him stops him, despite himself. A flicker of faint recognition. Just before the fog seeps in again. It’s a heart-breaking long beat.

  • How Arcane Broke All The Rules

    1 week ago | flipboard.com | Shannon Liao

    4 hours agoShe paused her jeans and T-shirt streak. After months on the road, Dua Lipa's Radical Optimism tour has reached her hometown of London. The Grammy winner will headline the iconic Wembley Stadium not once, but twice, starting on June 20. Just 24 hours before her first sold-out performance, Lipa …

  • A New Era? Or Too Soon To Tell?

    3 weeks ago | inverse.com | Shannon Liao

    After two Nintendo Switch 2 events under our belt and a dozen or so hours with the new console, setting up Hades, Super Mario Odyssey, and Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, we can safely say that the Switch 2 is here — and, well, there’s a lot to unpack.

  • We Have A Nintendo Switch 2 In Our Hands. Here Are Our First Impressions

    3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Shannon Liao

    6 hours agoThe free updates will boost performance in Super Mario Wonder, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and more. As Nintendo gets ready for the launch of the Switch 2 on June 5th, it’s now rolling out updates to even more titles than it previously announced. On a series of support pages spotted by Nintendo Life, …

  • Nintendo Is Already Warning Users Not To Overdo It With 'Mario Kart World's' Most Viral Character

    3 weeks ago | inverse.com | Shannon Liao

    Once just an innocent grazing farm animal with a love of grass, Cow in Mario Kart has certainly “moo-ved” up the ranks in recent times. When you saw cows in Nintendo’s most popular game of all time, they were just something to avoid bumping into and they easily faded into the background.

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Shannon Liao
Shannon Liao @Shannon_Liao
9 Jun 25

interviewed @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN for a fashion x gaming story I’ll be publishing soon! (but first, Hawaii!) https://t.co/YjEBYRRzJ7

Shannon Liao
Shannon Liao @Shannon_Liao
9 Jun 25

I think it’s still slightly inconsistent that airplanes ask you to put away your laptop when I’m just writing a low tech short story, but at other times if I had the Nintendo Switch 2 out, I could wipe the floor as Secret Agent Princess Peach and nobody says anything. odd but ok!

Shannon Liao
Shannon Liao @Shannon_Liao
9 Jun 25

played some Lego Party with @alyssa_merc and Cameron Hawkins https://t.co/vteibwcgnQ