Gears of War: E-Day gets a recommend from Skill Up, and WoW Forever a warning

Austin's World of Warcraft: Forever video, titled 'extremely dangerous (complimentary)', passed 750,000 views, and its comments filled up with people negotiating with their own free time.

Channel: Skill UpStory of October 4, 2026Trari Newsroom

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I recommend: 'Gears of War: E-Day' (Review)

Skill Up's verdict on Gears of War: E-Day is in, and it comes in the channel's plainest format: "I recommend." The description calls the game The Coalition betting on old-fashioned Gears gameplay and top-tier presentation, and says the bet pays off. Fourteen hours after it went up, the review had passed 230,000 views, and it is moving faster than anything else on the channel right now.

The week's biggest crowd, though, gathered around a different Blizzard-era memory. "'World of Warcraft: Forever' is extremely dangerous (complimentary)" opens its description with a sigh, "I'm thinkin' I'm back," and has passed three quarters of a million views. The comments read like a support group with a sense of humor: partners who come home to find a screen full of Azeroth, brothers now in their late thirties planning to raid together again from cities apart, one viewer who wants controller support for tired wrists. Many also correct a detail about which edition actually grants beta access, and one notes that this is where the Dawnwalker review went.

Around those two sat the usual furniture: This Week in Videogames on Naughty Dog's new Last of Us projects and the first round of E-Day reviews, and episode 105 of the Friends Per Second podcast with Jake Baldino and Lucy James, asking whether Activision can save Halo and making room for Ace Combat 8 and Control Resonant.

The channel gained about 2.5 million views over the seven days, second among the gaming news and review channels nearest its size, behind only Dobbs. YongYea is also running well above its usual pace, while HaloFollower is having a quieter stretch.

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The videos drawing views on Skill Up right now

'World of Warcraft: Forever' is extremely dangerous (complimentary)754,217 views · 2026-09-28 Naughty Dog's new Last of Us projects + Gears of War E-Day reviews | …344,882 views · 2026-10-02 Can Activision save Halo? + Control Resonant & Ace Combat 8 review di…284,187 views · 2026-09-27

The numbers

Here is how Skill Up's week looks in figures.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels

Dobbs

3,714,262

Skill Up

2,489,357

YongYea

1,420,157

Jesse Cox

1,235,011

Caddicarus

904,340

HaloFollower

793,111

Force Gaming

694,142

Lockstin & Gnoggin

381,302

My name is Byf

324,304

subscribers

1,110,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

351,015,580

views per day

108,287

typical day: 504,780

this week's videos (first-day views)

'World of Warcraft: Forever' is extreme…

517,629

Naughty Dog's new Last of Us projects +…

300,491

Can Activision save Halo? + Control Res…

173,217

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Lockstin & Gnoggin

1,180,000

YongYea

1,170,000

Caddicarus

1,160,000

HaloFollower

1,130,000

Skill Up

1,110,000

My name is Byf

1,100,000

Force Gaming

1,090,000

Jesse Cox

1,080,000

Dobbs

1,050,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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