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Hayes Madsen

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Freelance Reporter looking for work. Former Video Game Trends Writer at Inverse.com. Words at CGMagOnline, IGN, Rolling Stone, and more. Writer of An Evening at the Inn Newsletter. RPG aficionado. Bisexual.He/they. madsenhayes@Gmail.com. Signal: HayesM.26

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Lets fucking go

06.03.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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"We began asking ourselves how a tabletop version of Resident Evil might feel" - Vultures developers on creating a turn-based survival horror game | RPG Site Vultures - Scavengers of Death hopes to bring a fresh perspective on the survival horror genre. We talk to its developers about the difficulty of making a turn-based tactical horror game.

Out of everything I played in Next Fest, Vultures stood out the most (partially because of my RE obsession). So I reached out to the devs and talked to them about what crafting a turn-based survival horror game looks like and the resurgence of survival horror at large www.rpgsite.net/interview/19...

06.03.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Found here that they're taking a truly thoughtful approach to how you translate things between significantly different genres - and truly think it's fascinating how you keep things "scary" in a turn-based setting.

06.03.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"We began asking ourselves how a tabletop version of Resident Evil might feel" - Vultures developers on creating a turn-based survival horror game | RPG Site Vultures - Scavengers of Death hopes to bring a fresh perspective on the survival horror genre. We talk to its developers about the difficulty of making a turn-based tactical horror game.

Out of everything I played in Next Fest, Vultures stood out the most (partially because of my RE obsession). So I reached out to the devs and talked to them about what crafting a turn-based survival horror game looks like and the resurgence of survival horror at large www.rpgsite.net/interview/19...

06.03.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Seems good

06.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I got this out of nowhere today too.

05.03.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

RT if $3000 would literally change your life

05.03.2026 02:44 πŸ‘ 4440 πŸ” 3080 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 28

We can only get one Tales game every six years - but ten Sword Art game in the same time

05.03.2026 23:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
05.03.2026 23:08 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Good luck with that

05.03.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So, uh, this is why I'll be at PAX East.

I'm giving the keynote!!

05.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 341 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 0
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Did the 9 games things. (my9games.com) Really focused in on what I think influenced me the most.

05.03.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Esoteric Ebb Review - Chaotic Good This "Disco-like" RPG has a colorful world and sense of humor worth checking out.

A lot of shit sucks rn but y’know what doesn’t? Esoteric Ebb. I tried to give it its flowers www.gamespot.com/reviews/esot...

04.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Ethan Winters is the guy who says "this is the worst part" before he pulls out the pizza from the oven bare handed

05.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 2164 πŸ” 721 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 6

Okay I'm adding it this weekend, and wouldn't you know the fates aligned to let me write about Assassin's Creed Unity

05.03.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A comic drawn digitally with two panels. First panel has one black cat on the left asking a white cat on the right "so what do you do for a living?"

Second panel the white cat answered with a silly face "My best?"

A comic drawn digitally with two panels. First panel has one black cat on the left asking a white cat on the right "so what do you do for a living?" Second panel the white cat answered with a silly face "My best?"

don't we all

#art #cuteart #comic #cat

05.03.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 5684 πŸ” 2185 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 33

Ratcheteer! A lovely little Zelda-like

05.03.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dug my copy of Unity out and I forgot the disc is literally just a guillotine

05.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Every time I review a 5 hour game I tell myself I should do more of this - and then I go right back to playing 100-hour RPGs.

05.03.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi!

Me again.

I've played Mouse: M.I. For Hire and it is far cooler than I anticipated it to be.

It plays like DOOM, has Troy Baker doing a tough guys Dick Tracy accent, and some of coolest use of rubberhose animation I've ever seen.

And bad guys yell Gabbagool when you fight them? Epic.

05.03.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I really need to stop posting these things the minute I wake up..... sorry for the typos

05.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ratcheteer DX Impressions: The Sincerest Form Of Flattery Hero of Time

I played Ratcheteer DX and wrote abou tit, an upgraded versiok of a Playdate game. And it really made me sit and think about the line between inspirstion and imitstion (in a good way - the game rocks) theindieinformer.com/2026/03/05/r...

05.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

01.12.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 9334 πŸ” 2757 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 113

There are lots of games inspired by Zelda, there aren’t as many hyper specifically inspired by Link’s Awakening. And it’s cool to see something take that formula and really try to mold it into something new

05.03.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ratcheteer DX Impressions: The Sincerest Form Of Flattery Hero of Time

I played Ratcheteer DX and wrote abou tit, an upgraded versiok of a Playdate game. And it really made me sit and think about the line between inspirstion and imitstion (in a good way - the game rocks) theindieinformer.com/2026/03/05/r...

05.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Be careful who you make fun of as a kid

05.03.2026 07:06 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it even has the same disney world structure where you hang out with leonardo davinci for a bit and then you get 5 minutes of the actual main plot progressing

04.03.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I know exact what you’re talking about. And YEP.

04.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Like…. Out of 100?

04.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You'll never think of it the same again

04.03.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0