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Video Game Trends Writer at Inverse.com Freelance Reporter. Words at CGMagOnline, IGN, Rolling Stone, and more. RPG aficionado. Bisexual.He/they. [email protected]. Signal: HayesM.26
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Man I’m really bummed out by Front Mission 3 being AI slopped to hell. Just the worst possible thing that could have happened to a seminal strategy game. Cannot overstate how much you should not buy that game.

Its Renaissance Festival day

The Trans Lifeline stream starts today! There’s a ton of great stuff planned today and tomorrow - with a ton of great people

Today is the day! So many hours, so many guests, so many giveaways. Let's have some fun, raise some funds, and put some good out into the world. See y'all in just about one hour. www.twitch.tv/bloodgodpod

I continue to maintain that Deus Ex is the sci fi franchise that was the most prescient about our immediate future. The one thing it failed to predict is how stupid everything would be, because it was trying to also be really fkcin cool

Beat Jade Empire again and man it’s a damn shame we never got a sequel. So much promise for building a world, especially knowing what BioWare did with Mass Effect and Dragon Age. Game has its problems, but its undoubtedly compelling

Tune into Blood God this weekend and help raise some money! I’ll be playing some Mario Kart on Sunday!

this has been *months* in the making and now we are less than 24 hours out from a two-day, all-weekend charity stream for @translifeline.org ! we have giveaways, guests, incentives, and one cursed concoction. let's have some fun, raise a ton, and put some good back out into the world!

Did the halfway thing

Finally took the time to write my thoughts about Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut - the “best”technical version of the game, with readded cut story moments that demonstrably make the story worse. It crytstalizes my fear of the series being unwilling to truly move forward www.inverse.com/gaming/yakuz...

NO IT FUCKING WON'T.

Apropos of nothing, Avowed rocket actually. And it’s one of the best games of the year. www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

Met up with a friend and he was like hey I borrowed this 15 years ago and just found it. So, cool.

Seems bad

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

Square Enix has posted the Q&A from their annual shareholders meeting. In Japanese, so hopefully you're fluent or okay with machine translation imperfection Reports of the meeting this week led to drama this week re: turn-based battles, Clair Obscur (& FF14) www.hd.square-enix.com/jpn/ir/stock...

I usually get very "ahh!" about any podcast I'm on and worry about em but I think this episode is genuinely something fantastic. @solfleet.bsky.social and Alexandra brought so much insight, and made the episode – in my opinion – a super thoughtful and insightful rundown of DS2. Gee it a listen

This was a blast to be on and I think we have a pretty comprehensive discussion of what makes Death Stranding 2 so charming and befuddling at times.

Finally took the time to write my thoughts about Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut - the “best”technical version of the game, with readded cut story moments that demonstrably make the story worse. It crytstalizes my fear of the series being unwilling to truly move forward www.inverse.com/gaming/yakuz...

Ethan Winter was a huge dweeb and Grace is a coward. 2/2 on relatable RE protags

Man Pragmata looks so much like my shit

Be Kind, Rewinder 004 is going up tomorrow with myself, @scottmccrae.com, @solfleet.bsky.social and Alexandra Hobbs talking about Death Stranding 2... ... so I made really dumb YouTube thumbnail.

NEW: EA CEO Andrew Wilson was paid $30.5 million in cash and stock this past year, up about $5m from a year ago Since the U.S. requires companies to compare CEO pay to employee pay, I made an EA pay chart To make it work, I had to make it VERY TALL Take a look: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...

Games industry spends decades combating piracy and then immediately pivots into stealing creative works as soon as it’s available to them.

I’m not the only one who thinks including Fantasy Life in an “indie select” is weird, right?

Most of the meaningful discussion I've seen on Expedition 33's ending or themes has come from smaller RPG-focused YouTubers honestly. I think in games crit and standard coverage there's so little time to sit with things meaningfully, it's move onto the next thing as fast as possible.

Hello all. I was just informed that two features I wrote for ComicBook will not be published and I won’t be paid for them, so I’m offering them up! One is a Tales Remastered piece and the other is a Persona 4 Revival article. If interested, please DM me for contact info and details. Thank you all!

they didn't get lost in translation, they got wilfully misrepresented by idiots (usually westerners cosplaying as Japanese-based influencers using MTL to get by)

Can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m probably playing nothing but mobile games this weekend

Holy shit Two Point Museum is getting a fantasy DLC and it looks incredible. Still top 5 games of the year for me youtu.be/GRgEvhYj1L0?...

This keeps happening!

"[Lumines Arise is] an entrancing puzzle game that creates a sensory assault like nothing I've ever played, and it's quite suddenly become my most anticipated game..." @solfleet.bsky.social‬ at @inverse.com‬ 💜🙏🏻 📖 https://www.inverse.com/gaming/lumines-arise-preview-synethesia

Another great reminder that there's a lot of people who watch Gundam out there that completely just do not get it in any way

Not satisfied with just seeing something that made them happy, one of the biggest Gundam fan pages on Facebook decided to rub how "not-gay" GQuuuuuuX is in everybody's faces, then further shit on another Gundam entry, just to be homophobic. Pretty good reason to not be on Facebook anymore.