This month, we've got an awesome addition to TASTEE, news on an upcoming Twitch Vancouver event, and we're also growing! TASTEE Has a New Map! We’re excited to announce that a new map will make its way into the game and TASTEE Elite members are able to try it out in the beta branch first! This octagon-shaped map is a massive map ideal for 6 vs. 6 combat, where you’ll have to be relentlessly meticulous with your movements. Each section of this repurposed cartel warehouse offers distinct advantages for each Merc and is filled with bombs and passages for endless strategic approaches! You can sign up to the TASTEE Elite anytime for free. This membership grants you access [...]

Happy new year! It's been a great start to the year at our studio! Here's what's been going on: TASTEE: Lethal Tactics Tournament of the Dead Results! The TASTEE team is finally ready to let Halloween go now that the Tournament of the Dead has reached its conclusion! This one of a kind competition tested players' resourcefulness with different rules for each round: every participant was required to add infamous bomber Hudson to their team for round one, the second round saw intel mercs like Augustus and Zeke banned, and the finals got rid of bombers altogether. These rules gave way to different strategic approaches and very close matches, where 3 rounds could go by with no kills [...]

It's been a very festive month in the studio! Here's what we've been up to: Idle Intelligence Alpha Launched You are an artificial neural network tasked with recognizing hot dogs. What could possibly go wrong? We're happy to announce that we've launched a new title under our SkyBox Workshop label, Idle Intelligence. It's still in alpha, but available to try on Kongregate.com. Your feedback is greatly appreciated while we continue to tune the title, and add features. -> Play Idle Intelligence on Kongregate Age of Empires II HD Patch 5.6 is Now Live! Patch 5.6 is now Live! Thank you to everyone who participated and played multiplayer games in the Open Beta. We really appreciate your dedication and [...]

Happy Halloween! We've got a great update for you this month featuring a bone-chilling TASTEE update, and some exciting studio news.awesome April - here's what we’ve been up to: Announcing the Day of the Dead Skin Pack! We're happy to announce our latest set of skins - The Day of the Dead Skin Pack! This new pack includes 12 skins, featuring some of the wildest and most vibrant TASTEE designs yet including: Ares as Lady Calavera Denton as The Undead Desperado and The Baron as Barontula, the Spider King. As a special Halloween treat, we've added Seraphim's Day of the Dead skin to the game for free. She's available right now - just check your character selection screen! The [...]

Hey, we’re SkyBox Labs - a game studio based in Vancouver, BC, that does three things: Create, Develop, Play. We Create games, Develop games for our partners, and Play games! Here's what we've been up to in July: Sign Up for the Next TASTEE Tournament and Beat the Devs!  We’re excited to announce our next TASTEE: Lethal Tactics community event: Beat the Devs! The rules are simple: Beat the devs, win a prize! This will be a standard async-match tournament – with a twist! Every player that advances to the finals will take on a member of our development team. If you can beat one of us, you’ll take home a special TASTEE prize! Winners will be taking [...]

Another busy month! This month we've got a great feature on our recently wrapped TASTEE Tournament! The Results are in! Congrats to TASTEE Community Member Rogdhor! Our second ever tournament is now over and boy, it was super exciting! The TASTEE ROYALE: Guns & Gladiators Tournament set the stage for the best TASTEE players to compete asynchronously, giving plenty of time for each player to plan their moves extra carefully and showcase their best tactics on our newest map: the Backyard Colosseum. We'd like to give a big congrats to the top 3 finishers: 1st place: Rogdhor 2nd place: ashley89 3rd place: ubq We're currently planning the next big community event! While the details are still secret, you can [...]

This month we shine a light on three of our top TASTEE: Lethal Tactics players, Age of Empires II HD updates, and our studio's expansion! The Guns & Gladiators Tournament Update We've hit the final round of the TASTEE: Lethal Tactics Guns & Gladiators Tournament! Congrats to these titans of tactics, our finalists: ashley89 - a newcomer to the TASTEE tournaments. ashley89 can regularly be seen at the top of our monthly leaderboards. Rogdhor - our Daily Mission Deadliest champ, and writer of some of the best and most in-depth TASTEE guides. ubq - the first TASTEE tournament champion! Can ubq defend his record and remain the only person to own a TASTEE trophy? These are three of the best TASTEE: Lethal Tactics players [...]