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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.

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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

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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