Sky's Write-Up Compendium

  We’ve just been through our yearly summer reveal season, a time of the year all too familiar to most of us. A time period that used to be dominated by E3 that is now instead headlined by a large amount of individual company presentations (Nintendo Directs, State of Plays, etc.) and Summer Games Fest. While I’ve been admittedly underwhelmed by what I had been shown the past few years, this year in particular had a lot of decent showings that caught my eye. While I’m not in a position to grab absolutely every game I list here today as it comes out, I’d still like to take the time to highlight what I’m looking forward to the most. Both to go over what exactly about them captivated me, and to potentially help someone else see something they might like. Final Fantasy Resonance (Release Date Oct 22, 2026 - Nintendo Switch/Switch 2, PS5, Series X, Steam) Another Gacha Properly Adapted to a Full Game The preservation of mobile gacha games after they end service has been a consistent to...

  When you spend a large chunk of time playing video games, you’ll eventually figure out what styles are your bread & butter. These games will inevitably be the ones you seek out the most, as they are the ones you are most assuredly going to have a good time with. I myself am no different of course. Action platformers, JRPGs, and puzzle games are genres I know I can return to at any point in my life to have a good time. But only ever playing the same types of games over and over again ad nauseum not only isn’t healthy, but it also severely limits the amount of new experiences we can have with the medium. While it can be hard to break away from the comfortable and familiar, doing so can reveal a new side of yourself that you likely wouldn’t have known about otherwise. You could find something you truly love and attempt to seek out from there on, or you could dislike it but at least know for sure what’s not your thing and why. With this in mind, today I wanted to look back at the...