I'd appreciate if every website on the planet would stop giving me AI popups trying to get me to write like the most boring dweeb in existence.
Spencer Hayes
@spnkr.bsky.social
Indie game Scout. Formerly itch.io, Humble Bundle, Destructoid. Technically an award winning journalist and print photographer. Technically. Show me your cat.
The Fire Emblem rule is the longer the name, the better the game. Fortune's Weave will be *fine*
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If anyone wants to talk narrative game publishing and will be in Seattle for PAX, hit me up.
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I think the Bandcamp blog rules and I wish there was a video game store that dedicated to curation and serving their audience as more than just customers.
Red Kiss is featured on the Guardian website. It was fun to do this interview to tell a bit about our tech and our feelings and inspirations that lead to the project. 😊 #indiedev #games
Red Kiss – guiding vampires through a blood-soaked cold war Berlin
Inspired by interactive theatre and fuelled by the motion capture tech used by VTubers, the vampire spies in Red Kiss have personality in spades
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late night post: I wrote a fairly long article quite awhile ago (auratriolo.com/blog/2024/09...) on why you might submit to the Independent Games Festival. Today I present something a bit more specific: Advice on navigating the submissions interface and common pitfalls auratriolo.com/blog/2026/07...
A quick guide to the Submissions Interface for The Independent Games Festival (IGF) – AURAMBLES
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I do not think there is a less visually appealing team than the Spanish. Control-ball combined with ref manipulation is so boring
Galley House, Mermaid Mask, and Desktop Explorer all releasing this week feels so greedy. What did I do to deserve so many nice things?
Something a bit more personal than usual: For the last 10 years my dad has been struggling with a version of ALS, a terrible neuromuscular disease. He's kept up his spirits by making photo books chronicling his life as a photographer+traveler. I'm helping sell them now to pay for nursing care:
Photo Trips by Hugh Fenlon
Personal photography books compiled from a catalog of more than 30,000 analog film photographs taken across multiple continents and multiple decades.
photo-trips.bigcartel.com
OPINION: I Think I Know How To Solve the Video Game Industry’s Problems ggtribune.com/2026/07/10/o...
So after 14 months(?) of work and a lot of frustration barely knowing what i was doing i think i made someting special (!) presenting: a Wine fork for Ableton Live 12 on Linux stable pixel perfect vst support 1st class gnome citizen device hotwire support low latency audio tell ur friends 🥹🥹
If this World Cup is anything like the last one, billions of dollars are going to be spent trying to convince people that the USMNT has a chance to win it. Soccer tourists: do not believe their lies. There are so many great things about the game, please do not think that the USMNT is representative
some people are replying to the marvel rivals post with "I'm downloading it right now!!" and I really hope people have more respect for themselves than to pay for a gacha skin to see wiggling captain america dick. you can find much cheaper and higher quality dicks in so many places
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Idk why people are upset about Captain America's hog, feels justified when you consider the rest of Marvel Rivals' skin offerings
Any other team would have parked the bus, but America doesn't have public transit so they just kept attacking
I just do not understand what the positive vision at the end of the Xbox Reset is. What is the future that they're selling to investors, partners, and customers outside of "we make a box with no games on it and have no developers to develop for it"
"Actually everyone is using AI they just lie about it" feels like cope from people looking to justify their use of AI
At Forbidden Door right now and this room is H O T. Pro wrestling rules
Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.
Introducing Warp Point, a Web 1.0 gaming blog directory built for 2026
It's a webring! And a website!
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I'm so mad that the Saudis took Evo from us. I've got almost 20 years of memories of growing up alongside the show and now there's a weird FGC shaped hole in my summer plans going forward.
America losing in the literal last minute is exactly what we deserve lmao