Will Borger
@edgarallanbro.bsky.social
Pushcart Prize-nominated fiction writer/essayist.
Co-founder/Editor-in-Chief @skyboxcritics.com.
Words: MLR, Purple Wall, ASP, The Rupture, YourTango, Vet. Life.
Games: Rolling Stone, IGN, PC Gamer, Digital Trends, Shacknews, Unwinnable, Restart +
Co-founder/Editor-in-Chief @skyboxcritics.com.
Words: MLR, Purple Wall, ASP, The Rupture, YourTango, Vet. Life.
Games: Rolling Stone, IGN, PC Gamer, Digital Trends, Shacknews, Unwinnable, Restart +
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Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. isn't just a PC port of a 19-year-old game: it's the reason a diehard fighting game community can 'finally reach out and play with each other across the world'
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O's arrival on PC marks the start a new era for the series that pioneered 3D fighting games.
www.pcgamer.com
I interviewed several members of the VF community about why VF5: R.E.V.O. matters for @pcgamer.com. VF is so important, and it's so good to see that community get their moment and help them tell that story.
Big thanks to @wes.readonlymemo.com for the opportunity.
www.pcgamer.com/games/fighti...
Big thanks to @wes.readonlymemo.com for the opportunity.
www.pcgamer.com/games/fighti...
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In the latest Into the Skybox, @brianbarnett.bsky.social talks to @hokutolucas.bsky.social about Graverobber Foundation's Dragon Ruins, and what might be good entry points for folks looking to get into DRPGs.
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Into the Skybox - Dragon Ruins (with Lucas White) | Skybox
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January 5, 2026 at 9:04 PM
In the latest Into the Skybox, @brianbarnett.bsky.social talks to @hokutolucas.bsky.social about Graverobber Foundation's Dragon Ruins, and what might be good entry points for folks looking to get into DRPGs.
Check it out! Subscribe! www.patreon.com/posts/147091...
Check it out! Subscribe! www.patreon.com/posts/147091...
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hi everybody! I'm urgently looking for full-time game writing/narrative design work.
I'm a 6-year industry pro working with both AAA and indie studios on titles like Borderlands 4, Endoparasitic, and [REDACTED]. I also edit and consult!
Updated portfolio is live on my new site:
www.nessacannon.com
I'm a 6-year industry pro working with both AAA and indie studios on titles like Borderlands 4, Endoparasitic, and [REDACTED]. I also edit and consult!
Updated portfolio is live on my new site:
www.nessacannon.com
NESSA CANNON
Experienced game writer and narrative designer available for commissions, assignments, and contract work.
www.nessacannon.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
hi everybody! I'm urgently looking for full-time game writing/narrative design work.
I'm a 6-year industry pro working with both AAA and indie studios on titles like Borderlands 4, Endoparasitic, and [REDACTED]. I also edit and consult!
Updated portfolio is live on my new site:
www.nessacannon.com
I'm a 6-year industry pro working with both AAA and indie studios on titles like Borderlands 4, Endoparasitic, and [REDACTED]. I also edit and consult!
Updated portfolio is live on my new site:
www.nessacannon.com
The last game I played for work in 2025 was Code Vein II, and it's the first game I'm writing about in 2026 for @shacknews.com. Its combat design is thoughtful and the bosses I played were stellar, but what stuck with me was how emotive the characters were, even when they didn't speak.
Code Vein 2 is a Soulslike with sauce, heart... and a fantastic character creator
Justice for Josée.
www.shacknews.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The last game I played for work in 2025 was Code Vein II, and it's the first game I'm writing about in 2026 for @shacknews.com. Its combat design is thoughtful and the bosses I played were stellar, but what stuck with me was how emotive the characters were, even when they didn't speak.
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Hello everyone. Unfortunately, I was told that I would not be resuming my daily news writer role at Insider Gaming.
So, needless to say, I am open for game journalism work. If you’re looking for a reviewer, previewer, news and/or guide writer, as well as mock reviews, please reach out. Thank you.
So, needless to say, I am open for game journalism work. If you’re looking for a reviewer, previewer, news and/or guide writer, as well as mock reviews, please reach out. Thank you.
January 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Hello everyone. Unfortunately, I was told that I would not be resuming my daily news writer role at Insider Gaming.
So, needless to say, I am open for game journalism work. If you’re looking for a reviewer, previewer, news and/or guide writer, as well as mock reviews, please reach out. Thank you.
So, needless to say, I am open for game journalism work. If you’re looking for a reviewer, previewer, news and/or guide writer, as well as mock reviews, please reach out. Thank you.
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Now that the break is over, it's time to get back to work.
Anyone looking for a producer, creative director or lead, writer/editor — freelance or staff — please reach out! I appreciate any leads, too.
Stay sane and safe in 2026, everyone.
Anyone looking for a producer, creative director or lead, writer/editor — freelance or staff — please reach out! I appreciate any leads, too.
Stay sane and safe in 2026, everyone.
In this next phase, I'm available to freelance in many roles: producing, creative directing and development, and writing/editing across entertainment, gaming, culture, and branded content of all kinds.
Please hit me up if you'd like to work together! (ccruz0918@gmail.com)
Please hit me up if you'd like to work together! (ccruz0918@gmail.com)
January 5, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Now that the break is over, it's time to get back to work.
Anyone looking for a producer, creative director or lead, writer/editor — freelance or staff — please reach out! I appreciate any leads, too.
Stay sane and safe in 2026, everyone.
Anyone looking for a producer, creative director or lead, writer/editor — freelance or staff — please reach out! I appreciate any leads, too.
Stay sane and safe in 2026, everyone.
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With 2026 fully upon us now, worth nothing that I too am looking for work to help supplement my current gig. I am open to:
- Reviews
- Mock reviews
- Interviews
- Previews
- Features/Op-eds
- Guides
- Across all relevant platforms
Email is in my description, DMs are open. Reposts are appreciated!
- Reviews
- Mock reviews
- Interviews
- Previews
- Features/Op-eds
- Guides
- Across all relevant platforms
Email is in my description, DMs are open. Reposts are appreciated!
January 5, 2026 at 4:55 PM
With 2026 fully upon us now, worth nothing that I too am looking for work to help supplement my current gig. I am open to:
- Reviews
- Mock reviews
- Interviews
- Previews
- Features/Op-eds
- Guides
- Across all relevant platforms
Email is in my description, DMs are open. Reposts are appreciated!
- Reviews
- Mock reviews
- Interviews
- Previews
- Features/Op-eds
- Guides
- Across all relevant platforms
Email is in my description, DMs are open. Reposts are appreciated!
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Starting off 2026 with a new LOOKING FOR WORK post
I am very eager to pick up some more freelance work or ideally a fulltime gig somewhere. Open to:
- Reviews
- News/event coverage
- Mock reviews/consulting work
- Editing
- Copywriting/editing
- PR/marketing
email in bio! reposts appreciated!
I am very eager to pick up some more freelance work or ideally a fulltime gig somewhere. Open to:
- Reviews
- News/event coverage
- Mock reviews/consulting work
- Editing
- Copywriting/editing
- PR/marketing
email in bio! reposts appreciated!
January 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Starting off 2026 with a new LOOKING FOR WORK post
I am very eager to pick up some more freelance work or ideally a fulltime gig somewhere. Open to:
- Reviews
- News/event coverage
- Mock reviews/consulting work
- Editing
- Copywriting/editing
- PR/marketing
email in bio! reposts appreciated!
I am very eager to pick up some more freelance work or ideally a fulltime gig somewhere. Open to:
- Reviews
- News/event coverage
- Mock reviews/consulting work
- Editing
- Copywriting/editing
- PR/marketing
email in bio! reposts appreciated!
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“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”
We Are the Bad Guys
The swaggering threat to global stability is us.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM
“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”
Spoilers for Tomb Raider, I suppose:
The game ends with Lara running away from the pyramid at the end of The Mummy Returns, which naturally explodes somehow(?), and escaping on the villains' yacht. What a trip.
Tomb Raider 2 starts with you doing the obstacle course she has built at her mansion.
The game ends with Lara running away from the pyramid at the end of The Mummy Returns, which naturally explodes somehow(?), and escaping on the villains' yacht. What a trip.
Tomb Raider 2 starts with you doing the obstacle course she has built at her mansion.
Watching my wife play the original Tomb Raider and she's fighting a massive skeleton/meat torso and there are meat hallways and robots? I truly did not understand how weird this series used to be.
January 5, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Spoilers for Tomb Raider, I suppose:
The game ends with Lara running away from the pyramid at the end of The Mummy Returns, which naturally explodes somehow(?), and escaping on the villains' yacht. What a trip.
Tomb Raider 2 starts with you doing the obstacle course she has built at her mansion.
The game ends with Lara running away from the pyramid at the end of The Mummy Returns, which naturally explodes somehow(?), and escaping on the villains' yacht. What a trip.
Tomb Raider 2 starts with you doing the obstacle course she has built at her mansion.
Watching my wife play the original Tomb Raider and she's fighting a massive skeleton/meat torso and there are meat hallways and robots? I truly did not understand how weird this series used to be.
January 5, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Watching my wife play the original Tomb Raider and she's fighting a massive skeleton/meat torso and there are meat hallways and robots? I truly did not understand how weird this series used to be.
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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"joy is an act of resistance" is not praxis and while im a firm believer that art is good for the soul even during hard times, you have got to be fucking real for a second and realize that drawing pictures is not gonna help someone who is being bombed by the US government
January 4, 2026 at 4:17 AM
"joy is an act of resistance" is not praxis and while im a firm believer that art is good for the soul even during hard times, you have got to be fucking real for a second and realize that drawing pictures is not gonna help someone who is being bombed by the US government
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many Americans will concede that imperialism is the price we all pay to maintain a certain quality of life but I just spent 5 weeks in Europe using public transport and eating food that doesn’t taste like shit so I dunno man.
January 3, 2026 at 9:56 PM
many Americans will concede that imperialism is the price we all pay to maintain a certain quality of life but I just spent 5 weeks in Europe using public transport and eating food that doesn’t taste like shit so I dunno man.
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We're in this situation because Nixon didn't go to jail for Watergate and Reagan wasn't punished for Iran Contra. The path of least resistance brought us here.
January 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
We're in this situation because Nixon didn't go to jail for Watergate and Reagan wasn't punished for Iran Contra. The path of least resistance brought us here.
I'm going to try to do productive things today. The best way to do that will be to get off of here and do what I can. Final thought:
The people and systems that made this possible will not save us. A system is what it does. It is working as intended. We will have to save ourselves and each other.
The people and systems that made this possible will not save us. A system is what it does. It is working as intended. We will have to save ourselves and each other.
January 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
I'm going to try to do productive things today. The best way to do that will be to get off of here and do what I can. Final thought:
The people and systems that made this possible will not save us. A system is what it does. It is working as intended. We will have to save ourselves and each other.
The people and systems that made this possible will not save us. A system is what it does. It is working as intended. We will have to save ourselves and each other.
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Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
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It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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No. More. Fucking. Wars.
Impeach the bastard now. Do it again every single day.
End this madness.
Impeach the bastard now. Do it again every single day.
End this madness.
January 3, 2026 at 7:35 AM
No. More. Fucking. Wars.
Impeach the bastard now. Do it again every single day.
End this madness.
Impeach the bastard now. Do it again every single day.
End this madness.
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anyway. no war. oppose this at every level, in every way, and do not get sucked into these false debates about process. after all, both american parties are currently pro-genocide. america's hegemon *has* to be dismantled if there is to be anything resembling peace in our or future times
January 3, 2026 at 7:25 AM
anyway. no war. oppose this at every level, in every way, and do not get sucked into these false debates about process. after all, both american parties are currently pro-genocide. america's hegemon *has* to be dismantled if there is to be anything resembling peace in our or future times
There must be consequences for this, and they must be Biblical, Old Testament wrath of God type shit.
January 3, 2026 at 7:17 AM
There must be consequences for this, and they must be Biblical, Old Testament wrath of God type shit.
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Make sure you take some of the anger you’re feeling right now and use it to contact your officials to demand impeachment now.
It’s basically the least we can possibly do in opposition to this, which IMO makes it mandatory.
It’s basically the least we can possibly do in opposition to this, which IMO makes it mandatory.
January 3, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Make sure you take some of the anger you’re feeling right now and use it to contact your officials to demand impeachment now.
It’s basically the least we can possibly do in opposition to this, which IMO makes it mandatory.
It’s basically the least we can possibly do in opposition to this, which IMO makes it mandatory.
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You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 AM
You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.
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I don’t know how else to say it: we must be stopped.
January 3, 2026 at 6:57 AM
I don’t know how else to say it: we must be stopped.
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america is a nuclear armed fascist state dedicated to utterly shattering world peace for its own imperial gains and any decent person should want everyone involved brought before the hague
January 3, 2026 at 7:01 AM
america is a nuclear armed fascist state dedicated to utterly shattering world peace for its own imperial gains and any decent person should want everyone involved brought before the hague
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Hey this reminds me of a funny old article in a satirical newspaper you might be familiar with.
theonion.com/no-blood-for...
theonion.com/no-blood-for...
No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?
Contrary to what he would have you believe, President Bush’s plans to invade Iraq have nothing to do with such high-minded goals as liberating the Iraqi people or saving the world from terrorism. His ...
theonion.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Hey this reminds me of a funny old article in a satirical newspaper you might be familiar with.
theonion.com/no-blood-for...
theonion.com/no-blood-for...