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Aron Garst

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Writer/Producer covering games, esports, and technology.

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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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GameSpot @gamespot.com · 17/09/2025
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Five Years On, The Hades Fanbase Built Its Own Greek Mythology
Hades is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, September 17, 2025. Below, we examine ho the fan community has made the game and Greek mythology its own with a vibrant fiction and mod community. For many people, Greek mythology begins and ends with a few familiar faces. The musclebound hero--known as Hercules or Heracles--has had tales of his exploits retold for centuries through books, and more recently through movies, TV shows, and Michael Bolton's stellar singing. Beyond him, most modern audiences recognize the broadest strokes: Zeus as the thunder-wielding king of the gods, Hades as the grim lord of the dead, and other recognizable figures like Poseidon, Athena, Icarus, and Apollo. This pop-culture shorthand distills a vast and intricate body of myth into a handful of archetypes. The pantheon of Olympus, and the sprawling tales around it, contain thousands of figures whose influence never reached the same cultural spotlight.Continue Reading at GameSpot
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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
i got to preview skate for @gamespot.com and came out with quite a few questions and concerns about this new direction for the series www.gamespot.com/articles/ska...
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Skate Is Placing A Long-Term Bet On Its Community
The new foundation for the series is embracing the modern live-service model while attempting to strike a balance between old and new.
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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Advance Wars: Dual Strike was a grid-based chess match where every piece could explode, but the single-player campaign felt like squaring off against a row of toddlers still figuring out how pawns worked. I wanted something sharper. www.gamespot.com/articles/20-...
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20 Years Ago, Advance Wars: Dual Strike Saw The Future
Versus mode turned Advance Wars into my own tactical playground.
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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
For the evening crowd: I’m launching a new oral histories site called designroom.bsky.social. Won’t be much there for another month or so, but follow now to get in early!
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Design Room (@designroom.bsky.social)
A new website dedicated to video game oral histories coming soon from mattleone.bsky.social. Logo by asawallander.se.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 05/08/2025
If IGN has layoffs, nobody in games press is safe. If Microsoft has layoffs, nobody in platforms is safe. If Ubisoft and Bungie and NetEase have layoffs, nobody in game development is safe. If the Romeros get their funding pulled, no studio is safe. It's rough out there, right now.
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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
It's clear that there is an appetite for the online experience that Fall Guys provides. This is especially true when there is an army of creators supplying new levels on a regular basis. That's not the case anymore, but creators hope that changes. www.gamespot.com/articles/fal...
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Fall Guys Is The Perfect Game For Player-Made Levels, But Epic Is Letting It Languish
The game show battle royale could have been the perfect canvas for level creators.
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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Sub drive! Discounts! Themed week! A new writer! It's big moves over at Rascal, and we would love your support to keep the whole project chugging. Independently owned tabletop journalism funded directly by our readers.
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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Data points to slowing layoffs, but doesn't capture true harm to game industry "There's nothing about a culture of fear of being laid off that’s going to be good for people making games and the games they're making. Stability, and ethical wages, are the future of the industry."
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Data points to slowing layoffs, but doesn't capture true harm to game industry
Where does the game industry and its workforce go from here?
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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It was nearly 10 years ago that Peyton Blake began scribbling pictures in a small classroom. His drawings were usually of his teachers, typically older men with beards, but they all had one strange quirk: every teacher he sketched had an unusually elongated neck. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/e...
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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Me IRL
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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Early Access game to keep an eye on: Every Day We Fight Intuitive mix of XCOM tactics, roguelike narrative structure, and exploration. Rough around the edges, but with space to improve. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/e...
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Every Day We Fight guide: Tips for surviving the Rifters
Maximize your strategic prowess with our Every Day We Fight guide, and learn how to use Overwatch, appropriate weapon types, team tactics, and more to destroy the Rifters.
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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Drenched in thick, burgundy-colored blood after tearing through dozens of enemy Mongol camps, I rode slowly through the Tsushima countryside searching for my next target. Only one thing would defer my thirst for revenge: a brief dip in a hot spring. www.gamespot.com/articles/gho...
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Ghost Of Tsushima's Hot-Spring Meditations Are Still Calming Five Years Later
Jin Sakai's adventure was elevated by moments in the tub.
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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
spine is taking pitches again, ranging from short ($30 for 150-300 words) to longer form pieces ($60 for 500-700 words). *please* read the guidelines carefully, which now reflect the current monthly budget. i want to hear from bipoc and queer folks first and foremost. intothespine.com/write-for-us/
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Write for Spine - Into The Spine
Do you want to write for Into The Spine? Here's everything you need to know, including rates and what we're looking for at the moment.
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Justin Davis @errorjustin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Job Alert Editorial Director, RockPaperShotgun: jobs.jobvite.com/ign/job/oN7r... Guides Writer, RockPaperShotgun: jobs.jobvite.com/ziffdavis/jo... Digital Marketing Manager, IGN Store: www.ziffdavis.com/careers/jobs... Director of Subscriptions: jobs.jobvite.com/ziffdavis/jo...
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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 10/07/2025
We are hiring a senior TV / audio reviewer! Come review headphones, speakers, TVs, things of that nature.
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Senior Reviewer, TVs & Audio, The Verge
Remote (US Only)
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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 03/07/2025
If you have a job in the videogame industry, you might be asking yourself: "How do I keep up with my amazing friends and colleagues, who are successfully getting laid off all around me? How can *I* get laid off just like them?"
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20 foolproof ways to get laid off in the videogame industry
Tired of making games? Just use one of these simple tricks!
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
How co-op climbing hit Peak achieved 2 million sales for less than $200,000
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How co-op climbing hit Peak achieved 2 million sales for less than $200,000
The secret behind Aggro Crab and Landfall's latest hit? Korean barbecue and the power of friendship.
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Trinket Tom | Battle Suit Aces OUT NOW @tom.trinketstudios.com · 13/06/2025
Don't believe us? Believe those who have gotten into the Battle Suits and lived to tell their tales!
Steam review area showing 20 out of 20 demo reviews of Battle Suit Aces are positive.
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer (story-driven sci-fi Action RPG from Owlcat Games - PS5/Xbox/PC) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIQi... store.steampowered.com/app/3727390/...
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Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I covered the anti-ICE protests in downtown Los Angeles today. Here are some photos.
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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 07/06/2025
"Everything that’s good about Split Fiction is good because it’s a videogame. And that’s not because it helps to tell the story they want to tell." The contrast between Split Fiction's writing and gameplay has @jaymcastello.bsky.social‬ thinking about what makes a game good:
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Space Without Story - Unwinnable
Messing around in a space with a good buddy is hardwired into the human brain and it doesn’t matter whether or not that space is digital.
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BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW 🤖 @team.trinketstudios.com · 05/06/2025
IF YOU LIKE: 🤖 old school mecha anime 🃏 deckbuilding ✨ found family and full-of-heart narratives 🌈 queer themes at the forefront THEN YOU'LL LIKE: Battle Suit Aces, a narrative deckbuilder from the Battle Chef Brigade devs, with a demo coming soon 🥰 store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/...
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Battle Suit Aces on Steam
Battle Suit Aces is a charming narrative deckbuilder. You'll recruit, befriend, and upgrade your mech pilots on a heartfelt hunt for fabled alien superweapons: the Relic Suits. Command them across mon...
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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Taking Feature pitches for Nightreign! mkim@ign.com
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Ty Galiz-Rowe @owoathkeeper.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The best way I could think to celebrate Pride was to bring Uppercut out of hibernation, so I did! Get your ideas to the email in the skeet by Friday June 6th!
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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I'd love to see these in Balatro
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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The stories of the villains in Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones exemplify the type of personal story that sets the Fire Emblem series apart from other strategy games.
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Villains Have Rarely Been As Relatable As They Were In Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones
The Game Boy classic gives us a closer look at what makes its villains tick.
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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The Federal Bureau of Control (FBC) rarely seems like it has any form of control. Despite its name, the fictional government agency has failed at its duties to control the supernatural entities it encounters in every situation we've seen them in store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/m...
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Multiplayer chaos and the supernatural reign supreme in FBC: Firebreak
Remedy's first multiplayer game aims to give players an experience that's more about working together and less about grinding for rewards and unlockables
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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 24/05/2025
I wrote a tribute to Leif Johnson, a former writer for many gaming publications, and my friend, who died last weekend. The world is poorer without him in it.
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Remembering Leif Johnson, the gaming industry's one and only cowboy poet
Leif was a historian, a fountain pen connoisseur, and a kind soul who brought a remarkably eclectic background to his time writing about games.
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JessEviltelli @mamavitelli.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I've been in LA playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4!! You can read my preview over at Gamesradar+. I talk about the old, the new (it's very good), and of course what it takes to make a legendary soundtrack that represents current skate culture.
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4's new levels impress me as much the rebuilt classics: "This needs to feel like we found this on a hard drive for THPS4 and we revitalized it"
Hands-on | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 makes me feel young again, and plenty of new additions make Iron Galaxy's loving restoration even more exciting
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STRADOMYRE! || PLAY DEAD ESTATE @stradomyre.newgrounds.com · 29/04/2025
FUCK THE KLAN Smoke from Sinners. #Sinners #MSPaint #DigitalArt #ArtPost
Smoke (played by Michael B. Jordan) from Sinners gunning down scum of the earth in a hateful rage with a thompson submachine gun.
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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
If you need short term work to tide you over you can hit me up with gaming feature pitches at mkim@ign.com
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BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW 🤖 @team.trinketstudios.com · 01/05/2025
OUR DEMO IS LIVE NOW 🤖‼🎉 For the first time ever, check out Battle Suit Aces as a part of #LudoNarraCon on Steam 🤖 recruit ace mech pilots and level up their battle suits ☄ journey through the stars and uncover the mysteries of the relic suits 💪build relationships with your crew and more! 👀
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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We’ll be running weekly post mortems on Andor’s final season, with notes from a couple of its producers
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
UC Santa Cruz professor roleplays gig economy, publisher negotiation, and layoffs with game design students
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UC Santa Cruz professor roleplays gig economy, publisher negotiation, and layoffs with game design students
Retora Games founder and adjunct professor Tyler Coleman held classroom exercises with game design students in order to help prepare them for the harsh current realities of the game industry.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Dredge wasn't originally going to be a narrative game, but then it became one of 2023's best
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Dredge wasn't originally going to be a narrative game, but then it became one of 2023's best
Inside the building of Dredge's dialogue-based narrative system
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
GamesBeat spins off from VentureBeat to become 'niche independent publication'
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GamesBeat spins off from VentureBeat to become 'niche independent publication'
'We are excited about this powerful new chapter for GamesBeat and the industry we are serving.'
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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
for rolling stone, i look back at god of war on its 20th anniversary, a time capsule of a bygone video game era. while it’s good to see to newer entries moving on from misogynistic roots, the pursuit of prestige and catering to modern trends is growing tiresome www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...
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'God of War' Is the Ultimate Edgelord Game of the 2000s -- But It's Still Great
'God of War' remains a PlayStation staple, but the original remains a time capsule of the 2000s
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Aron Garst @garstproduction.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"Combat against automatons is more strategic as their enemy architects all have guns of their own," Roget said. "Eventually, I just started stomping around my apartment while pretending to be a giant robot." www.pcgamer.com/games/third-...
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Helldivers 2 composer recalls stomping around his apartment and channeling 'Super Patriotism' to capture Arrowhead's satirical vision in music: 'The satire works because the music believes it's a pure...
The music will make you a believer, too.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Our very own @bryantfrancis.me will take to the GDC stage today to discuss strategies for whistleblowing to the press, check it out here:
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Power of the Press: A Guide for Whistleblowing to Investigative Journalists
21st March, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm - This if a briefing for all game developers who have questions about whistleblowing to the press. ...
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 20/03/2025
Copy editors! We're have a contract role open to join our Standards and Style desk (we fancy) of seven. Yes, in a newsroom of 47, we have seven copy editors. We love a good copy edit. It's part of the secret sauce that makes our B2B pubs what they are. jobs.lever.co/morningbrew/...
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Morning Brew Inc. - Copy Editor (contract)
This is a contract position. OVERVIEW You'll read and review an array of newsletter items, interviews, and reported stories for errors and other considerations across the B2B portfolio—Retail Brew, HR...
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Using player agency to help engage with history, both real and fictitious.
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How Civilization VII's powerful narrative system helps players experience unique parts of history
Using player agency to help engage with history, both real and fictitious.
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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I thought this write-up (in which I'm quoted verbatim, extensively) was really good and felt very authentic to what I was trying to say, in the sense that it was somehow frantic and meaningless, but borderline profound.
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auxilio plug anal @momorsa.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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