Hayes Madsen

Pinned post was out of date, so here's a new one. I'm actively looking for work, especially with review season in the thick of things. 16 years of experience covering games and pop culture, specializing in RPGs and interviews. I'd love to review games for you (even the big one), or anything else

I knew November would be a slow month for work in the games space. But, uh, boy I’ve literally got almost nothing for the next month. And from what I’ve been seeing, I’m clearly not the only one

An Austin Wintory Mass Effect soundtrack. Good god we were robbed.

I have largely not felt good about myself or my work this year. But boy being in four (four!) different issues of Game Informer this year has been a nice little morale boost

More not good news today, again. Redundancies have hit Auroch Digital.

Putting it out to the universe that I'd love to consult on more games, in any capacity. By the end of this year, I *should* be in the credits of three games - and that should then continue next year. And I'm also developing a better eye for the dev side of things. A lot of knowledge I'd love to use.

a very rpg site interview on all fronts. niche questions, hardcore topics, and of course this sort of thing

Putting it out to the universe that I'd love to consult on more games, in any capacity. By the end of this year, I *should* be in the credits of three games - and that should then continue next year. And I'm also developing a better eye for the dev side of things. A lot of knowledge I'd love to use.

Majora's Mask still is, and will probably always be, the best Zelda game by the way

Nintendo should do the exact same thing they did for Majora’s Mask on N64, and just use all the Ocarina of Time assets to make a Majora’s Mask remake - I’m not kidding

Yeah, early big thought for Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave - there’s way too much stuff in this game that’s not tactical battles. I just wanna battle man

You might have noticed I stopped covering Phantom Blade 0 a while ago. And let’s just say I’m glad to see the reviews it’s getting.

Phantom Blade Zero is my GOTY. GOD. I hope it makes a whole new audience fall in love with wuxia and Chinese Epics. You can read the 3k words here 👇🏽

Fun story I realized tonight - the first ever video game review I wrote for a site was Dragon Age 2. Feels remarkably bizarre to remember that right now. And while Slimgamer.com has long stopped existing, and it’s not on the way back machine, I found the N4G link (of all things)

Wildwood was FANTASTIC. Might be up there with Kubo as my favorite from Laika

I found the best idea for a romance film

Hard to parse my thoughts for this honestly. But to me, BioWare represented making things happening despite so many forces working against it. And that was represented in the stories the creators there told as well - representing people who, so often, have the world working against them

Fuck yeah dude

I have not played a Call of Duty game since Black Ops 3, but I am wholly unsurprised hearing that the jingoist machismo has only gotten worse in recent games

it's been a decade since I played a COD campaign and out of interest I decided to give MW4 a go and... I'm not sure what to say. US devs got away with a certain amount of myopic jingoism in the 2000's, but the evil "othering" in this game is out of this fucking world. I've been appalled for 2 hours.

Who could have seen this coming

Ever video game company racing to be the fucking worst right now. Jesus

I have never been more excited for a Lego set. I will pay any amount, upfront, right now

Boy, it's a bad week to have clinical depression

I can't believe I live in a reality where I can at least partially blame fucking Jared Kushner for the closure of BioWare. I hate it here so much man.

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

Im in pain www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

Gotta be honest, an open world football game is maybe the game I’ve ever wanted the least in my entire life

Informal poll. My partner is interested in trying Soulslikes after talking to a friend. She’s never played one, but seen my play a few. What should be the first one -Elden Ring -Lies of P

God yes

As much as it's not really a surprise, especially given the industry right now coupled with the Saudi sale, the news today still made me sad. BioWare joins other great studios of the past, with a legacy that will not soon be forgotten. 😔 www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...