Joe Skrebels
2plus2isjoe.bsky.social
Joe Skrebels
@2plus2isjoe.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief for Xbox Wire. Podcast garbagier on Regular Features.
The first playable character ever created for the Tony Hawk's series was Bruce Willis
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
There's a Vampire Survivors spin-off. It's a roguelike deckbuilder. It's also an old-school dungeon crawler. It's also probably other, stranger things. I am hideously psyched - and I got to speak to Luca from Poncle all about where the hell this came from.
November 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Please, Tarsier, when you've finished up on Reanimal, there are fun guys like me who'd like lost classic, Statik to come out on new VR headsets:

youtu.be/i7MVb_rv5sQ?...
Statik - Release Trailer | PS VR
YouTube video by PlayStation
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I love this piece from @mike-nelson.bsky.social - a character build guide for The Outer Worlds 2 with a difference: every entry was contributed by a member of the game's QA team.

news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/1...
Obsidian's Favorite Character Builds for The Outer Worlds 2 - Xbox Wire
With early access kicking off today for Premium Edition owners, Obsidian’s QA team shares some of their favorite character builds to help inspire your own role-playing adventure for The Outer Worlds 2...
news.xbox.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Told you
This is going to be a treat.
Xbox Wire got an exclusive hands-on with the opening hours of Double Fine’s Keeper - and there seems to be more to this game than we knew: news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...
October 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I feel like it's gone undersung that Rise of the Golden Idol's DLC this year (which is now all out there), has effectively been an entire new game's worth of cases - and it works like a side-quel (ugh) to both of the first two games.

Honestly, just an incredible thing.
October 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Look, sometimes you're just trying to take a picture of Wayne Rooney on the TV, but you accidentally capture a frame in a dissolve, and it looks like Noah Hawley was trying to communicate that Wayne had deep thoughts about Mo Salah
October 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I'm doing my first ever livestream 😬

Join me for 'UNKNOWN TREASURES', where I spin rogue forgotten vinyl that I've found in charity shops and we listen to it for the first time together.

First stream 📅 Thu 25 Sep 🕘 9-10pm UK

Smash that sub button or whatever: youtube.com/@unknowntreasuresmichaelm
September 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is going to be a treat.
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A post in which I resist the primal urge to just extend the word "Yesssssss" to 15,000 characters
September 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"Golf"
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The amazing thing about video games is that they can really let you express a different side of yourself, something that perhaps you couldn't or wouldn't reveal in the real world
September 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
September 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The worst part is I didn't even need to look at the original message to know which boss this is.
"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see
September 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Little entry I couldn't include from my notes for this piece: "Fucking hell it looks good" news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...
007 First Light Is So Much More Than A Hitman Game in Disguise - Xbox Wire
We got our first, extended look at 007 First Light - and it's an incredibly exciting new take on a James Bond game.
news.xbox.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
There Are No Ghosts at the Grand has been an exciting weirdo enigma to me since it was revealed, so I was very happy to ask @fridaysundae.bsky.social a lot of questions that effectively boiled down "what the hell is this game?" on the Xbox Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pGR...
No Ghosts at the Grand Deep Dive | Official Xbox Podcast
YouTube video by Xbox
www.youtube.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Very proud of the sheer number of organic, free-range, homegrown words that the @wire.xbox.com team has put together for gamescom. Some favourites:
August 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Of course, in England, RoboCop was released as RobbieBobby
August 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Absolutely incredible news for all the cool guys
Hardspace is expanding! 🔥

" @bbigames.bsky.social reached an agreement with Focus Entertainment, our publishing partner, to reacquire full ownership of the Hardspace: Shipbreaker intellectual property."

"And now we're embarking on a new journey to create new Hardspace experiences." 🚀🚀
Hardspace: Shipbreaker on Steam
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX C...
store.steampowered.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Hello, it's me with a message that should have come in January:

Citizen Sleeper 2 is properly magnificent.

If you're at all interested in seeing how RPGs can do things differently, but with a core of that "I wonder what would happen if THIS person was in THIS place" storytelling, try it.
August 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I am once again calling on World Science to ensure that all my mosquito bites just "turn off" when I get home from holiday
August 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Just remembering the most potent visual signifier I've ever seen live:

When I was on jury duty, the lawyer for the (deeply, obviously guilty) defendant kept having his wig slide off while he tried to speak.
July 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I haven't spoken enough about how Rematch is the best, so here's an interview I did because Rematch is the best: news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...
Rematch: 3 Million Xbox Players, a Record Breaking Beta, and the Future Beyond Season 0 - Xbox Wire
Rematch has passed 3 milion Xbox players, and even broke a record before it came out - we caught up with Sloclap to reflect on its launch, and what's coming in future.
news.xbox.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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1. "Head of HR"
July 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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just let gargamel have the smurfs. who cares
October 30, 2023 at 1:00 AM