Big ups to Capcom for letting me check out their #TGS2025 lineup from their offices in San Francisco! It was a whole lot of fun previewing these games: Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection smashpad.com/tgs-2025-meg...

Happy for all the FFT fans. But it should’ve been a remake.

I am absolutely fine with my social feeds primarily being Like a Dragon and Trails-focused. Quite dandy, actually.

Something I posted on LinkedIn that didn’t get enough attention for whatever reason. But yeah, stop calling people lucky.

So Yakuza 3 getting the Kiwami treatment is pretty much a guarantee that 4 and 5 get it too, right?

Nintendo fixed Mario Kart World a couple days after my very late review of the game. 🤣

This letter from UCHealth Greeley Hospital made our day 🧡 Thanks to your support, GO Karts are helping kids find play and relief during tough moments 🎮

I’m flying to Dallas on Thursday night for the Packers-Cowboys game. Will be there till Monday. Give me all the food recommendations!

If anybody needs someone to talk about Trails in the Sky in any capacity on their podcast, big or small, I offer myself as tribute.

One of the homies hit me up about Trails in the Sky today. That makes me happy.

Holy crap I actually won in this Madden league. With the freakin Arizona Cardinals. 🥲

We shipped 294 GO Karts in the first half of 2025 🎉 That means 2,300+ gaming experiences every day for kids receiving care! 🎮 And we have YOU to thank for it 🧡

The Six One Indie Showcase just wrapped, and we have a round-up of the coolest games shown during it: gameinformer.com/round-up/202...

31-21, Bills. They were favored by 11 and the O/U was 50.5. Tell me it’s not rigged.

I love that Trails positivity is littering my social feeds. Welcome to the pure peak of JRPGs, my friends!

Very excited to see people play Trails for the first time after talking their ear off about it for years and then I respond with

Three reviews in one week. One of these days I'll get paid for these, but for now I'll just relish over the fact that I got to play these all early. smashpad.com/sonic-racing...

Had the pleasure of reviewing my most anticipated game of the year before it came out. Please give it a read! Also - buy and play this game when it comes out on Friday. Peak JRPG right here. smashpad.com/trails-in-th...

To my network, complete shot in the dark, but if anybody has the time to review any of these games, I’d love to have your content on @smashpad.bsky.social. Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion (PS5) Hirogami (PS5) I can’t pay you since I don’t even pay myself, but free games to diversify your bylines!

Need 50KB to be easy again.

One of those typing and deleting a post six times kind of days.

I’m giddy, bro.

I wrote this. ✌🏼 Love a read!

A huge thank you to @kujoprime.bsky.social for taking time to interview with our president @elainegomez.bsky.social To those interested please give it a watch 💜 youtu.be/HjHRoWn0q7A?...

I wish casual NFL fans understood the difference between a good game and terrible defense.

Thursday night parlay hit. Sunday night parlay hit. Monday night should’ve hit if the Bears didn’t Bears.

My bsky follower account has grown considerably since Evo, so I’ll take the opportunity to reintroduce myself. I’m Danreb. I work at Gamers Outreach full-time as their community coordinator and before was at EA for seven years before that prior to being laid off. I also run SmashPad.com.

I’m not cool enough to book appointments to preview Nintendo games, but that didn’t stop me from playing Pokemon or Kirby as a civilian. Check out my posts below for previews on their two biggest titles from the show floor!

Review season just doesn’t stop! Met with some cool folks at @junkfoodarcades.bsky.social at PAX West and ended up with a SWORL ergonomic controller. Is it a fight stick? Is it a controller? Who knows?

My biggest behind-closed-doors PAX West Preview appointments were with Square Enix. Here’s a 🧵of what I played along with their previews on @smashpad.bsky.social. I’d appreciate a read!

Now that I’m boarded, my #PAXWest has officially come to an end. If you’re looking for a sentimental post, I go into more of that detail on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/posts/danreb...

Games at PAX West that I’m allowed to tell you I’m writing about - Kirby Air Riders - Pokemon Legends Z-A - Crimson Desert - Final Fantasy Tactics I don’t know when I’ll have these previews done, but they will.

Just a few more eats before leaving SEA.

I wrote a PAX Preview while waiting for my delayed flight. Guess which game it was on. It rhymes with “ales.” smashpad.com/pax-west-202...

I also finally got to meet @danreb.bsky.social! I almost worked with him and we both are grinding the independent press life and most importantly... we're kapamilya. Haha. Was sick to say hey and see what you're up to nowadays.

Meeting dudes I listen to every week. #PAXWest @loganjplant.bsky.social

I was doing some work with the Master Chief at a hospital’s teen night. Turns out the Spartan enjoys him some Mario Kart World. Everything truly is an Xbox.

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter is my most anticipated game of the year. I just finished the 8-hour demo, and let me tell you… if I’m this blown away by it, it’ll be my Game of the Year. Check out my impressions! smashpad.com/trails-in-th...

I witnessed home runs at T-Mobile Park.

When I first got my hands on #SonicRacingCrossWorlds, Ichiban wasn’t ready yet. Sega since invited my back to play for another hour, and Ichiban Kasuga was there for me to use. How was it? Check out my latest preview! smashpad.com/sonic-racing...

As a 90’s kid who loved all things Ninja and grew up with Shinobi games on Genesis, @lizardcube.bsky.social and Sega really cooked here and I’m super excited for the rest of the retro revivals! Check out my review of Shinobi: Art of Vengeance on @smashpad.bsky.social! smashpad.com/shinobi-art-...

Totally forgot this was a Game Pass game.

#Herdling from @okomotive.ch came out the other day, and @smashpad.bsky.social gave the game 5/5. I really enjoyed the game at GDC, and I don’t know when I’ll have time to jump into it, but I’m happy to see Chris loved it. Thank you to the homies at @popagenda.co! smashpad.com/herdling-rev...

Alright bye guys

Giant Squid could only get me a Steam code for Sword the Sea. Well, my best PC is a Steam Deck, this game is one of those unverified games that runs POORLY on Steam Deck. I wrote a review in progress at the embargo lift talking a little bit about what ran poorly. smashpad.com/review-in-pr...

YO GANG! Make sure to do this so you can keep your GB accounts! You'll get +10 podcast points if you do!

Your boy was at Capcom because Gamescom wasn’t happening for me, and they let me play all the demos everybody’s standing in line for.

Three huge previews going up on SmashPad tomorrow, and I’m excited to have you read them. I even did video stuff for two of them. God I wish I was a real freelancer though.

Here we go. Silksong will have a "special announcement" on Thursday at 10:30am ET. AND coming from me on Thursday, the story behind why Silksong took seven years to make... Stay tuned! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGe...

It was supposed to be done by someone else, but I’m happy to let everybody know that I’m stepping in to review SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance for @smashpad.bsky.social! As a Genesis kid, this one definitely hits close to home so I hope you guys give my review a read when it goes up next week!