You have to love a Xena episode that is set up to be a Fightin' Over a Mythical Item Episode only to learn that it is in fact a musical episode when the the entire cast breaks out into a rendition of Edwin Starr's "War" and Xena proposes a battle of the bands

It's fun watching people remember (or discover) that Star Fox 64 is a generational video game and replaying video games, especially games that offer different experiences as you improve, is good. One day, they will be able to medal Area 6 with their eyes closed and they will Understand.

If you are a Bungie dev laid off as part of these cuts, or a former / remaining dev who wants to talk, you can contact me on Signal at ConnorMakar.62 I would love to get an accurate picture of how this all went wrong.

"Fortnite boss claims every video game connecting to Fortnite is the only way games industry survives"

talking to my neighbors and she was like "it's a pretty shitty time to be an american but it's a fuckin' GREAT time to be a new yorker" and that about covers the past several months

Imagine having Bungie -- Bungie, the studio that made Marathon and Halo and Destiny and Marathon, that level of generational talent, one of the best teams to ever do it, consistently, for 30 years -- and not knowing what to do with them. Then imagine firing nearly 300 of them. Clownshow shit.

I've been the weirdo standing on the street corner saying the end of the video game industry as we know it was coming for a while now, but I have to admit I never thought it would be because rich idiots decided autocorrect that uses all the water and electricity to just make shit up was a good thing

RPG Guys have it made. They just need a DVD menu and half-decent characters and they're happy. They get a new game every week. But as a action game guy, you spend days thinking of the combat systems in Ninja Gaiden 2 and Devil May Cry 4 and then realize you'll never get anything like that again.

Guys, I love all the likes and retweets, I like the good brain chemicals as much as the rest of us, but there was a question here, and it begs an answer

Well, @skyboxcritics.com is over $250 a month in subscriptions now (THANK YOU!), which means we owe y'all a themed week of pieces and I have to write a column. We have some ideas for a theme internally, but what do you wanna see us do? Sound off, y'all

when will said he was publishing this i didn't think he literally meant last night so hello lol i wrote about tomodachi life and the mii news network

"Are you playing like a spy or playing like James fucking Bond?"

i think what's happening to the game industry is just representative to what's happening across the cultural sphere - a hollowing out mainstream with fractured, balkanized, highly engaged fandoms with extremely specific, highly insular expectations, or platforms primarily designed to exploit people

just want to remind people of what I said about how I’d cover this game last year in this conversation with @autumn-wright.com unwinnable.com/2025/07/11/a...

this month's BLOBBER BLOG has arrived

Can a Skybox Editor Find Readers After Risking Their Life in a Dungeon? Volume 13: Labyrinth of Aetheria by @hokutolucas.bsky.social "Labyrinth of Aetheria got hands, folks." Read on:

The end goal of the digital future companies so desperately want is two-fold: to make sure that you never own anything again, and to make sure that you pay whatever they decide you should with no alternatives for everything, all the time, forever

Sleeping Dogs rules because it had the temerity to ask "What if Grand Theft Auto was good?"

yeah maybe we should stop calling it “the physical version” if it does not come with the physical version

Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream rewrites the news by @platanoranger.bsky.social "None of it makes any sense, but that’s the appeal, and it certainly beats the shit out of doomscrolling the actual stupidity and cruelty that passes for news in real life." Read on: skyboxcritics.com/2026/06/23/t...

I hope Schumer is so fucking scared right now. I hope he is looking at what happened in his own districts and is absolutely sick to his fucking stomach about his future. I hope he’s terrified. Gillibrand too. I hope they see the tide turning and just want to barf with overwhelming fear.

Please stop threatening me with a good time

I'm so fucking tired of hearing that trans kids need to eat shit. That we need to let lawless bygones be bygones. That data centers get all our water and we just need to adjust to the future. That the Supreme Court is static and we just need to sit there and not have rights.

It's not just New York. In Maryland, at least two state senators & one state representative are losing to challengers to their left.

I say this with complete ill will and animosity: eat shit. Your people are Diet Republican bums, and they're getting thrown out because they're Diet Republican bums. You don't wanna get voted out? Maybe stop being bums. You get what you deserve.

Star Wars Trilogy Arcade better be on the final list or so help me God

that sound you hear is every too-comfortable incumbent screaming, crying, throwing up

I love New York

"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything

Great recurring Xena bit in later seasons is when Gabrielle, having moved from staff to sai, is attacked by several people with staffs, not knowing Gabby is Master of Big Stick. Then she takes one and kicks all kinds of ass with it. Real "surely I will be the one to kill John Wick" hours.

I got to play Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 at SGF and and spoke to producer Masayuki Hirano about making a new Xenoverse after 10 years, bringing the series to Age 1,000, and why my character’s room was so damn messy. Big thanks as always to @dmc-ryan.bsky.social for the opp. Check it out at @ign.com:

Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr

Watching Bungie tie itself into knots to try to make Marathon into a game for people who hate Marathon and will never like it no matter how what Bungie does is so sad.

oh my god

I got to play Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 at SGF and and spoke to producer Masayuki Hirano about making a new Xenoverse after 10 years, bringing the series to Age 1,000, and why my character’s room was so damn messy. Big thanks as always to @dmc-ryan.bsky.social for the opp. Check it out at @ign.com:

NEW STOP CARING ESSAY! @construct.goblinmo.de joins the site to write about Skate Story, crashing into the ground and picking yourself back up, and the fear and effort one must surpass in order to "do the damn thing." Please read and share, if you would be so kind. www.stopcar.ing/skating-thro...

You are posting about the price of the Steam Machine I am watching Xena: Warrior Princess on DVD We both use technology, but we are not the same

The average player spends less by playing on PC anyway, so yes. Cheaper games are big, but paying again to use your own internet is one of the biggest scams in the history of scams. Plus you can use whatever controller you want on PC, and keep using it basically forever. That stuff adds up.

Yeah, bro, more influencers will totally fix the problem. Why don't you just put all that money in one room and light it on fire? At least then you'd be warm.

They're calling it the please buy Xbox edition of EW

Whenever someone implies that gamers will boycott anything I think of this image and laugh and laugh and laugh

More SGF coverage from me at @ign.com. I talked to the producers behind Gundam: Rogue Orbit about making a Gundam game where the focus is on being the pilot.

“Let’s?”

For what the hardware is, this is a joke. Jesus Christ.

I know I sound like a crazy person because we all worship cars now but I actually don’t think it should be legal to drive a vehicle with a hood taller than most women and all children in a heavily pedestrian city

There's never been a man who's been proven more right than the 30-50 feral hogs guy

‘marathon should be a linear campaign fps so i could see all the art and all the writing without having to get my teeth kicked in in multiplayer’ is witch in the alps posting unfortunately

*Xena, pulling back her duster to reveal the chakram* Me: heavy breathing