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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Which Final Fantasy are you sticking in there? From a historical perspective I think it's 1 or 7, from a personal it's 15

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Everything about it should excite me - I'm a science fiction nerd with a decent interest in Star Trek. But everything revealed so far has just been so... underwhelming. There's probably an argument to be made that they took power creep in the wrong direction and just made boring designs

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The end-game SUCKS and yet, I would absolutely say play it

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Joe Richards -> a coffin (halloween innit) @joerichardswrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pushing this again, but also pushing Skybox as a whole. The team at Skybox have been consistently supportive for over a year since I first pitched. I have grown noticeably since working with them, and pushed my writing to be better. I am better for being there. Please, if you can, support them.

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

next you'll say you've got a podcast host and a close friend from your time here!

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Frat's having property has always weirded me out. It's basically student houses on roids

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Joe Richards -> a coffin (halloween innit) @joerichardswrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love and loathe Tomb Raider in equal measure. On the one hand, a genuinely impressive go at exploratory 3D platforming. On the other, a game with a confused identity that betrays what the name "Tomb Raider" would have you believe. And the tank controls made me want to drink paint. Another month!

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Rhiannon 🇵🇸 @rhithewitch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well. That's me gone from TheGamer too. Six years of service, and I was at least given the dignity of it ending in a phone call. Right after dealing with weeks of institutionalized misogyny too! Thought things might be getting better So. Uh. Looking for work now I guess!

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Skybox @skyboxcritics.com · 04/10/2026

Consider The Woodchipper by @edgarallanbro.bsky.social CW: sexual assault, rape "Let me be clear: you are not a victim of what Geller did." Read on:

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Consider The Woodchipper

A response to "What Do We Do With Jacob Gellar?"

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We got to see a bike safety advert that fully showed the wound that the biker got and the ghosts of the dead. I was 10

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hang on Is that Gina Carano??????

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John E Warren 🤠🐝♿️ @floppyadult.com · 04/10/2026

You should be legally required to post what exactly you think makes this piece "nuanced" and "good." You can't just go "great piece" and then thumb your nose at people saying you're crazy. Say why you think it's good with your chest. epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...

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What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming

Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Notably not a single mention of Trails 2nd Chapter, a game currently sitting at a 90, too

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

8/10 IS great???? What are we doing

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wouldn't have happened without you, Kate! (Also somehow in that excerpt Davies yet again changes his tune about what actually happened with the Christmas Special, further proving that he Cannot Be Trusted)

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

All I'm going to say is that a shocking amount of people in games media and the industry writ large are showing the type of people they really are.

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mildly concerning how many members of the games industry (and press) have shared this seemingly simply because it uses flowery language, without realising what the piece is ACTUALLY doing

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In this week's Quick Save Podcast, I almost start crying talking about Renne's backstory in Trails In The Sky The Third. Elsewhere, @joerichardswrites.bsky.social tells me about his time in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave and we wonder what the hell Xbox is doing

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Episode 27: Ryan and Dune (not the movie)

Quick Save · Episode

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you could say that you're The Vengeful One

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is my favourite photo of you, of course

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you're hot as hell short king

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You did that a long time ago, Ash

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kate is one of the best editors I've ever had, and ButWhyTho is incredible. Go support them

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you really should start writing one day

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If your immediate reaction is to say "not all men" or to absolve yourself of guilt, then you need to shake your brain. Yes, there are good people. But that is not what this is about, this is about making a better place for everybody, not stroking an ego

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're part of this space, and you ever see anybody being weird, or being aggressive, towards a woman, then it is your job to call it out, regardless of whether or not you know the person or not. Making a better world starts at the ground floor

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James GHOULizio 👻 @theswweet.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

I've absolutely not been as loud about this as I could, even should, have been - it has absolutely been noticeable how much less common women writers have been at events this year, and how many fewer bylines they've had for reviews - particularly for major releases.

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very excited to read this, Unbound is an all-timer

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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New from me: I did a deep dive and spoke to Pokemon fan game creators for @fansplaining.bsky.social. This was so hard to source, but I am humbled by the sources who took the time to talk to me about this super massive, and relatively under-examined, fandom. fansplaining.com/pokemon-fang...

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Pokémon Fangames Evolve Beyond Their Origins

For fangame creators, the work they develop and the communities they inspire are inextricably tied.

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Writing for @skyboxcritics.com has been a privilege, but the only way they can continue to give a voice to a diverse group of people is if you toss a few dollars their way. Support independent media. www.patreon.com/SkyboxCritics

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Get more from Skybox on Patreon

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No chance. I want out as soon as possible

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Skybox @skyboxcritics.com · 29/09/2026

Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter is what 1:1 remakes should be by @easbygames.bsky.social "Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter managed to make me cry half a dozen times" Read on:

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Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter is what 1:1 remakes should be

Are the new Trails in the Sky games the ideal remakes?

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

During the review period for this, I just messaged another reviewer "this is the best game of the year" the second this happened

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Listen Alex mate, I know you like RPGs.... well have you heard of one called Final Fantasy VII? I spill my entire drink onto Chris, who I have mistaken for Alex

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Calling it a market is generous, even!

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You're not a million miles off. Alex actually currently has one of my emails in his inbox, though it was written by a human

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm going to have an aneurysm

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I also think it is cheating to put specifically BEEF season 1 on the list

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oracle B Ebeneezer is an all timer name

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I CAN'T EVEN DISAGREE WITH YOU BECAUSE IT IS BETTER

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

staring at my villains tattoo and sighing loudly at least it just looks like a devil on my shoulder, I guess

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Ryan Easby @easbygames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You'll never get this type of thing on IGN, I'm telling you now

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