About Us & Contact

Skybox was started to be a place for everything we could think of, and all the stuff we couldn’t do elsewhere. A place where good work, whether that meant criticism, blogs, reporting, features, interviews, or whatever else, would find a home as long as there was good work to do and good people to do it.

Our Editors:

Our Writers

Cristina Alexander has been contributing to the games media industry since 2017. Sonic the Hedgehog is her specialty — she’s autistic, after all — but she will happily write about any other video game franchise if she puts her mind to it. Any game that presents a feature or issue she finds interesting, she’ll write it up like nobody’s business. Whether it’s in Kingdom Hearts, Zenless Zone Zero, or literally anything she’s playing at the time, she’ll tell it like it is. You can find her on Bluesky at @sonicprincess15.bsky.social.

Echo Aspey is an experienced freelance writer with more than six years covering games for a variety of websites, including Rolling Stone, IGN, PC Gamer, NME, and more. Previously, they led The Loadout’s guides section until going freelance and has a deep knowledge of shooters, action RPGs, multiplayer games, and arcade racers.

Abram Buehner is a Senior Editor for publisher and design studio Lost In Cult. He has a particular interest in Nintendo games and spends too much time thinking about them. So talk to him about that, or his various other interests like fitness, music, birding, and movies (that way he can get a bit of use out of his film degree).

Nicole Carpenter is a writer and reporter covering the video game industry. You can find her on Bluesky @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social‬.

Kris Cornelisse (he/him) is an Australian writer who was cursed to write compulsively about video games after causing a Tetris clone’s score to stack overflow at the age of 4 years old. Since then, he’s spent far too long playing every strategy game he can get his hands on, while also pondering the ways in which games can tell stories unique to the medium. He’s most notably written for GameSkinny and DualShockers, and is a regular co-host on the Platformers Podcast.

Brogan Chattin is a freelance writer who prefers to dwell in dark caves waiting for the chosen to arrive. He likes fighting games, retro and indie games, and pizza. He is one host of the gaming podcast called the Daydreamcast. Do not make direct eye contact with him.

Francisco Dominguez is a freelance games journalist and recovering Kojima devotee published at IGN, Polygon, Epic Games, and more.

Tomas Franzese is a contributor to Skybox. Previously a Staff Writer at Digital Trends, Tomas is passionate about sharing game developers’ stories, analyzing video game history, and contextualizing those things within the modern video game industry. Tomas’ byline has also appeared on GameSpot, ComicBook, Inverse, and DualShockers.

James Galizio has been writing about gaming and technology from LA since 2014, and has contributed to outlets such as RPG Site, Nintendo Insider, and more with a special focus on PC gaming and Japanese RPGs. Graduating from the University of California, Irvine in 2021 with Bachelors in English, he has covered events such as E3, Tokyo Game Show, and more as he hopes to help shine a light on games both big and small. If he’s not writing about an upcoming or recently released RPG, you can probably find him playing Monster Hunter or some random game that might have recently been released in Japan.

Amadeo “Mads” Garcia III has been drawing since he was a wee lad, and maybe someday he might even go to school for it. He drew comics for Hardcore Gamer Magazine, and has spent most of the last two decades starting and stopping several webcomic attempts, doodling nonsense across forums reputable and disreputable, and generally dipping in and out of fandom after fandom, feverishly imagining himself a writer and reviewer. Time has found him mostly settled down with a family, but the game has pulled him back. Maybe he enjoys playing it too much. Maybe only death will free him.

Peter Glagowski is a freelance gaming and film critic with over eight years of experience in the industry. He has contributed to outlets such as Destructoid, TheGamer, and Nintendo Wire. He has also written essays on martial arts cinema for Arrow Video, and Vinegar Syndrome, alongside providing audio commentary for 88 Films, Shout Factory, and Spectrum Films.

Trudie Graham is a journalist who has been covering media, politics, and more since 2018. You can find her words on Dexerto, The Digital Fox, GamesRadar, and more.

Luis Gutierrez is a freelance journalist who’s worked with various publications, such as IGN, GameSpot, Polygon, and more. He loves all video game genres. In his spare time, he loves reading, watching TV and movies, and spending time with his pug. You can reach him at ImLuisGutierrez1997@gmail.com.

Imran Khan is a two-decade veteran of the gaming industry, working as a prolific writer and occasional developer. You can find his old work at Game Informer, Fanbyte, and others. Also here, this thing you’re reading!

Lawrence Maldonado is a writer, editor, commentator, and freelance journalist from Brooklyn, New York, now contributing to Skybox! Having gotten his start straight out of High School with a group of like-minded friends, Lawrence continued on the path that had been paved, turning a blogging hobby into a future occupational goal. His love of video games has led him to work as a Community Editor for Koei-Tecmo, interview notable names and voice actors within the industry, contribute writing for Screen Rant’s Gaming team while covering the Game Devs of Color Expo, pursue commentary for fighting game events, and work on the narrative team on a video game himself. A multifaceted man of intelligence, fighting games, Musou, and pro-wrestling are just a few of his favorite things.

Fran J. Ruiz is an English Studies survivor and a freelance writer for Games Radar, VG247, SPACE, GameWatcher, and more. He plays a bit of everything, from little-known indies to the biggest AAA releases, resulting in a backlog that never goes down.

Joe Richards is a freelance games journalist with a taste for RPGs and worldly questions. A literature graduate from the University of York, Joe has always tried to bring their academic background into how they view and talk about games. You can find their work at SUPERJUMP, PlayStation Universe, Startmenu, and here! Joe also likes Pikmin a perfectly healthy amount.

Victoria Rose started a video game club at their women’s college, which made their involvement in a campus-wide survey obvious when it included video gaming as a hobby. A year later, they became canon in an Alternate Reality Game. They’re more known for being that former esports writer, and less known for the “A Hell Of A Ride” quote used on an FFXIV ad with a hot dragoon smirking. Disney World and Universal Studios passholder, dance music enjoyer, kandi trader. NYC; she/they/he; the “they” is plural.

Ashley Schofield is the author of Lost in Cult’s VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works and a freelance journalist focused on video games, film, music, gender identity and queer life. Featured in publications such as Polygon (rest in peace), GamesRadar+, PCGamesN, PLAY (rest in peace), EDGE and Into The Spine. Talk to her about the Like a Dragon series.

Thomas Wilde has been a freelance writer since Internet small times. His bylines can be found on GeekWire, Hard Drive, Bloody Disgusting, IGN, Kotaku, and elsewhere. If you’ve ever seen a zombie game and wondered aloud “Who is this for?” it was for him.