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Editor-at-Large Brian Barnett’s top ten games of 2025 Skybox's written 2025 GOTY extravaganza starts with Editor-at-Large Brian Barnett's top ten games of 2025

We're finally rolling out our written GOTY 2025 lists from the Skybox staff (with some extra bonuses) this week! First up is the official @brianbarnett.bsky.social top ten.

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There are SO many great games that came out last year

Here are my thoughts on my 10 favorites ❤️

(Fair warning, some of it gets emotionally intense)

Ep. 23 - Funerals & Ancestry, Digimon Story: Time Stranger, & Super Bomberman OR "A Profane Portrait Bigger Than Her Picture Of Me" | Skybox Get more from Skybox on Patreon

The latest episode of The Skybox Podcast is live!

In it, @brianbarnett.bsky.social @hokutolucas.bsky.social and @kriscornelisse.bsky.social talk about Brian's grandma passing (and subsequent portrait shenanigans), Digimon Story: Time Stranger, Calamity Angels, DiceVaders, & much more

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this suuuuuuuuucks

for folks who are active on x, threads, etc and feel bad about it bc of its stewards but have a hard time letting go: sometimes your behaviors overpower your values online because tech companies hire psychologists & sociologists to come up with ways to put you in that position

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

dougiefox_fl "To the kids who are doxing their I.C.E agent dads, I want to tell you something that they have never said to you. I love you, and I'm proud of you."

Al Green continues to be one of the only mfers meeting this moment and his colleagues CONSTANTLY fail him.

me too
my mom has the early signs of it, and my father in law does too

I'm not for sale.
are you?

the game is truly always changing

Growing up means realizing that All Star by Smash Mouth isn't just "the meme song from Shrek," those lyrics are spitting stone-cold truths in the face of the human condition 😔

He used to sit on our chests and looked deeply into our eyes, and Audrey would say "COMFORT ME, SPOONS!"

🎶 The Jake in the corner, who no one ignores
He thinks he's the compassionate one 🎶

Fighting game preservation and the tyranny of choice A deep dive into the issues with game preservation as they appear in the fighting game scene.

🕹️ Fantastic read on gaming preservation. Plus fighting games place in that arena.

- #FGC #History #GameDev @skyboxcritics.com

an image of Daisy from the mario franchise edited to be holding a gun, saying "I do not support all indies, some of you bitches use gen ai"

mood of the morning.

RONNY WITH A BUZZER BEATER FROM THE THREE POINT LINE!!!!!

@ted-ed.bsky.social my 6yo daughter and I have been watching your videos on YT lately and love them!

today she asked me: "can you leave a voicemail to Ted Ed to tell them I'm waiting for a pretzel video from them!"

she wants to know where they come from and how theyre made

youve got a fan!

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i had not thought of that

that is darkly hilarious

Rise of Skywalker

just fundamentally doesnt understand what makes a good MOVIE, let alone a good Star Wars movie

squandered potential at every opportunity

pissed me off more every time i thought about it

and finally killed my love of, and interest in, star wars

a man with gray hair and a beard is wearing a sweater ALT: a man with gray hair and a beard is wearing a sweater

i fought in the gacha wars, same as your father

Thank you @hokutolucas.bsky.social for hosting Beyond The Skybox while I was out.

and I forgive the slander

Its a great episode, so check it out!

Beyond the Skybox - Gacha Games | Skybox Get more from Skybox on Patreon

Beyond the Skybox episode 4 is available on demand! Temp host @hokutolucas.bsky.social and @kriscornelisse.bsky.social talk gacha games, what they do well and why they’re problematic, and what the future has in store - can making them “real” games work? Or is Octopath 0 a fluke?

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WE NEED HIM

gooners will goon but i don't think a series that spent the better part of a decade confronting that it Used to be Problematic should suddenly start hiding its history when it gets remade.

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

my body is ready

where the mentats at?

the butlerian jihad but it's just the entirety of tech infrastructure collapsing because middle-tier companies also can't afford it anymore so every piece of tech up and down the consumer/business spectrum/chain is unintentionally nuked and we just go "yeah let's never do that again"