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MinnMax Interview - Skill Up's Big Bet On The Future Of Games Coverage
🕑 Added 2025-07-21 16:15:01 +0000 UTC
MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews Ralph AKA Skill Up about his rise to YouTube success and how he's using that community to launch a new video game site: thisweekinvideogames.com. You might know Ralph from the Friends Per Second podcast along with Lucy James and Jake Baldino. We talk about the state of games media and how it's likely up to people with a video following to give back to original news reporting about games to keep the larger ecosystem for games coverage healthy. Ralph also offers advice for folks starting out on YouTube, calling back to his earliest days covering Ubisoft's The Division.
You can support ThisWeekInVideoGames right here - https://thisweekinvideogames.com/sign-up/
Check out Skill Up's YouTube channel here - https://www.youtube.com/c/SkillUp
Watch and share the video version of this interview here - https://youtu.be/SJeB-MB0gVg
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:34 - Welcome Ralph AKA Skill Up
00:03:21 - Behind-The-Scenes Of Launching ThisWeekInVideoGames.com
00:25:44 - The Origins Of Skill Up
00:32:27 - Finding His Voice On YouTube
00:38:17 - The Future Of Games Coverage
00:45:04 - Managing Burnout And YouTube
00:50:29 - Final Message About This WeekInVideoGames.com
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Cory S
Great interview!
