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Hayes Madsen

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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. madsenhayes@Gmail.com. Signal: HayesM.26

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Latest posts by solfleet.bsky.social on Bluesky

Yeah I think there’s a way to salvage it, I just don’t offhand know what it is - and Aspyr’s track record sadly doesn’t inspire confidence. I think maybe Nightdive’s stuff is the best examples to look at for references in this case

11.12.2025 18:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m very upset this came out exactly when I went to LA and I’ve barely been able to play it

11.12.2025 17:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They’re lucky the Broncos aren’t playing, because I’d be out in a second lol

11.12.2025 17:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am is the extra ironic part - but I’m not going to the show itself

11.12.2025 17:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sure I could watch The Game Awards tonight. But I could also watch a probably terrible Thursday Night Football game too.

11.12.2025 17:53 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

I genuinely don’t know what you do with this game, because what people have a problem with is seemingly the entire approach to redefining the visual aesthetic of Deus Ex.

11.12.2025 17:49 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

One of those mornings where I wake up feeling bad about my life, look at the news, and then just decide to go back to sleep

11.12.2025 16:30 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I did not know I needed DK in the Hades art style, but now it’s all I want

11.12.2025 16:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This art is currently my favorite thing to come out of The Game Awards this year - and that might not change

11.12.2025 16:08 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Why is there a guy with a hawk at LA Live?

10.12.2025 19:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1
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Silent Hill f turned my personal mental health journey into the most evil plot twist of 2025, and I’m not even angry Opinion | Red capsules aren't Hinako's enemy – the world is

after years of resisting medication for my incapacitating OCD, i finally changed my life in 2024 🍪 i was facedown in the dirt before lexapro, fluvoxamine, gabapentin, and trazodone saved me

that's why i love eating yummy pills with hinako in silent hill f yay 🥰

www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...

10.12.2025 17:33 — 👍 44    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 2

Always a trip to wake up in 15 degree Denver and land in 80 degree LA

10.12.2025 17:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy: The Kotaku Review - Kotaku One of 2025’s most important games is one you probably haven’t heard about

Finally, The Kotaku Review for Hundred Line. I spent much of it reflecting on how its incredible ambition makes it nearly impossible to recommend without caveats. But it's one of the most important games of 2025, and a testament to the power of making something for yourself without compromise.

10.12.2025 14:23 — 👍 108    🔁 36    💬 2    📌 13
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Two muppets this year, huh

10.12.2025 14:24 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Got to the airport early enough to to go to the good empanada place. Good start.

10.12.2025 14:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Mariachi Legends Trailer | Latin American Games Showcase
YouTube video by HALBERD STUDIOS Mariachi Legends Trailer | Latin American Games Showcase

This looks incredible youtu.be/jOaIduUeX3U?...

10.12.2025 13:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'The Hundred Line' Creators Say Risking Bankruptcy For A Game With 100 Endings Was 'Worth It' The creators behind 2025's most revolutionary game talk about how their "magnum opus" brought them back from the brink of bankruptcy,

The end of the year is always my favorite time as a games writer, and I always try to get an interview for one game that really hit me. So here's a big interview with Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi, on creating the wild experiment of The Hundred Line www.inverse.com/gaming/the-h...

09.12.2025 19:48 — 👍 414    🔁 217    💬 8    📌 14

Absolutely adored that Hundred Line interview, but my biggest piece of end-of-year coverage is still coming next week. A monster of a thing I've put a ton of work into.

09.12.2025 21:06 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm nothing if not considerate

09.12.2025 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If ya'll aren't talking about The Hundred Line in Game of the Year conversations - you aren't serious

09.12.2025 19:54 — 👍 38    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Might be my favorite interview of the year, just for quotes like this

09.12.2025 19:50 — 👍 80    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 2

We talk about a wide array of things here - zero regrets for almost bankrupting the studio, an incredible anecdote about this game being entirely hand-crafted, making a game with 100 endings but no "correct" one, and the idea that either one will ever make something to measure up to this again.

09.12.2025 19:48 — 👍 25    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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'The Hundred Line' Creators Say Risking Bankruptcy For A Game With 100 Endings Was 'Worth It' The creators behind 2025's most revolutionary game talk about how their "magnum opus" brought them back from the brink of bankruptcy,

The end of the year is always my favorite time as a games writer, and I always try to get an interview for one game that really hit me. So here's a big interview with Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi, on creating the wild experiment of The Hundred Line www.inverse.com/gaming/the-h...

09.12.2025 19:48 — 👍 414    🔁 217    💬 8    📌 14

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

09.12.2025 18:31 — 👍 9708    🔁 1676    💬 151    📌 92

Definitely going done in history as “”Unc Season”

09.12.2025 18:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wild ass season of NFL man

09.12.2025 18:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My YouTube hours on PS5 are probably in the thousands lol

09.12.2025 17:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Between football seasons, I always have a really intense Madden binge session for like a month. My obsessive nature creeps in

09.12.2025 17:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is actually not what I was expecting at all. Upgraded my PC this year, so a lot of my RPGs were on PC or Switch 2. But weird year for me lol

09.12.2025 17:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

There's just something here that undeniably works. I can think of six things I immediately "don't like" about this game, but damn if it doesn't do its own thing in pretty much every way.

09.12.2025 17:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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