iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

happy birthday hades 2 I still cant believe you were really like that youtu.be/zMa6nDH8KvQ

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Hades II's ending isn't fixed

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

hades was a good game too bad it never got a sequel

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

march 2027 will mark 10 years since my first international byline. think i may just freelance forever at this point

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

at the very least i broke the nine-month curse

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i would have added paste here but it was 4 months of endless mode and... 3 ish of av club, so idk

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

that guy has been me since i tried reese's and baja blast

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

can somebody please think of the billionaires

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this in such an occurrence in the freelance space. i can teach anybody how to pitch but i can’t nor shouldn’t have to teach basic professional manners (and that’s just one thing, really)

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Princess Space Catt 💙 @spacecatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Update has been pushed by @jessiscah23.bsky.social which hopefully fixes a lot of the bugs 🤞👼

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

experiencing roman sands re:build means inhabiting spaces barely holding themselves together, populated by people who are equally crumbling down. it’s perpetually frustrating to see through, but arresting nonetheless. my review: www.theguardian.com/games/2026/s...

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Roman Sands RE:Build review – marooned in a crumbling vaporwave dream

The latest work from the team behind Paratopic is part compulsive time-loop management sim, part eerie subterranean adventure

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

theguardian.com

Roman Sands RE:Build review – marooned in a crumbling vaporwave dream

The latest work from the team behind Paratopic is part compulsive time-loop management sim, part eerie subterranean adventure

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

that’s a pricey way to train your vr legs from scratch

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

at the very least 2016 diego would be really proud of me

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it's obviously great from a preservation standpoint but being able just reload a 10 year old save like it's nothing feels wrong in a way

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the other day i opened a pcgamer article and my laptop when into performance mode lmao

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

didn’t think the movie would be that good

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i think most people who complain didn’t even make it to svartrau city. sure at first i was like “man i don’t even wanna level up, im just gonna hoard these points” and then it was literally fine

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i said this in my review but the blood of dawnwalker doesn’t go hard enough on the time limit. i had access to all main points of no return with over a week to spare and i wasn’t particularly min maxing it. the sense of constraint doesn’t last. if anything the sequel should have 15 days instead

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

very funny to see this mere weeks after the blood of dawnwalker, which has the most unnecessary QTEs of all time (i haven't played wolverine so i got no horse in that race)

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

thinking about this today after having unearthed the most buried lede of all time, following weeks (months, really) of joint and individual breaking news, which wouldn't have happened without proper editorial guidance and great feedback throughout. this culmination is infuriating to say the least

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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

like @danielleri.bsky.social, @diegoarguello.bsky.social, and @kerrblimey.bsky.social, i will no longer be contributing to game developer. it was an absolute blast working with this team on my twice-a-month column! that means i’ve got more time to report and write for you!!!! hit us all up, really✨

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Have some BIG NEWS, and it really is wild that today is also the anniversary of the Fanbyte Apocalypse. But my time at Game Developer is done, and hence, my time as a full-time game journalist has come to an end. 20 years in a career sure is something. www.tumblr.com/danielling/8...

After 20+ years of writing professionally about games, including time at Polygon and Idle Thumbs, launching Waypoint, serving as editor in chief of Fanbyte and finally as EIC at Game Developer, my time is done. I'm officially out at Game Developer. Given the state of game journalism, this obviously means leaving the profession, at least as a full-timer.

I'm out, with respect to my colleagues, and a lot of love for the site as it was. We've published work that I'm extremely proud of, particularly our reporting on labor and on how workers are finding things in a miserable, gutting moment in the game industry. I'm proud of the dev-authored features we had for so many years, the resources and knowledge and bits and pieces of know-how that I still use, to this day, in my own game design courses.

What's next? Well, I'm not leaving games. I'll always be making and teaching and writing about games, it just can't be my full time gig anymore. I've actually been doing narrative design on a game since 2022, with a team I really believe in, and I can't wait until I can show that off properly. I am also OPEN TO WORK. Anything involving writing or editing words, editing video, teaching (I've been teaching college since 2009), and hey, I'm an EMT and got my phlebotomy cert a couple years back. I'm versatile!

For full-time employment, I am eventually going to try my hand at medicine. I've served as an EMT here in NYC since 2016, and I've been taking science courses post-bac since January 2025, usually 2 or more at once concurrently with... the full time job, my part time adjunct job, and volunteering on said ambulance. Exhaustion set in years ago, lol, so I've settled into something beyond that at this point. I feel like I've been climbing a mountain, and trying to make many things work at once. I had a pretty good rhythm going, truth be told, despite all the burnout. I'm proud of myself for that.

I'd really like to be a physician assistant one day, or potentially a nurse practitioner. It's a very, very long and hard road to either of those paths, but I'm going to make my way as best as I can.

How do I feel? Again, devastated was years ago. We're pretty far past that at this point. What's happened to journalism in America is... a topic for a very depressing, very well-researched book. I hope someone writes that one day. What happened to game journalism... well, it's more of a niche, but I can say only that reporting honestly on layoff after layoff and corporate malfeasance writ large and executives gambling the whole industry down the drain was tough, but somebody had to do it.

But it's not something one can do without editorial independence.

It's dramatic, but I'm going to mourn this career. Twenty years of my life, at 42, is just about half of my days alive. I put a lot, and I do mean *a lot* of myself into this. I tried at all times to lead with empathy and care for the human beings around me and to be as honest and frankly honorable as possible in my work. I really, really tried to live my values in my work in this career, and the only way I can keep that reputation is the path ahead of me.

So there it is. Expect to see me making games, making art, teaching game design, writing about games from time to time @VeeGeeBees. Expect to hear more about my adventures as an EMT, and hopefully, soon as a PA student, and eventually, as an advanced practitioner. I've kept telling myself, in the darkest and worst days of the last few years, that I'll fly again, somehow. It'll just look very different.

To sign off, and pull an old favorite out of my pocket: be good, and be good at it.

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

whoops, mb, it is diegoarguello66 (thank you!)

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@lazzieb.bsky.social hi lazzie! hope you’re well. would you mind sending me a dm or email? i have a quick question (my discord is the same as my handle here, too). thank you for your time!

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

after I wrote my oral history of Spore, a member of the community reached out in a long email to talk about its legacy, which has been particularly supported by modding. so I asked if they'd like to help me put together a follow up www.designroom.site/spore-moddin...

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The modding community keeping Spore alive

We talk to three members of the Spore modding community about their efforts to continue Maxis' work and keep the game active for new generations of fans.

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

you're super kind, thanks a ton mark! (and right back at you, especially on the good taste in music)

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

thank you danielle!! it means a ton, and thank you for everything

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this is incredibly kind of you to say, thanks a ton. and keep up the excellent work!!!

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

for good measure muckrack.com/diego-arguel...

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

update: i'm parting ways with my freelance news gig at game developer at the end of the month. helping the team since april 2025 has been a great experience and has taught me a lot if you're looking for an experienced b2b news writer, or just an experienced freelancer that can do it all, i'm around

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