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For Show Date: 02/13/2025
This week we talk a lot about The Sims, partly because Jared played it a good deal, and partly because its in the news again! We talk about some other stuff too. Enjoy!
- Games We Played
Valve Seemingly Bans All Steam Games That Require Watching Advertisements To Play- Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor hits out at RPG devs trying to recruit them for their Disco Elysium successors: "Miss me with that casting call"
- The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games
Games We Played
Rage:
Jared:
The Sims 3-4
https://store.steampowered.com/app/47890/The_Sims_3/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1222670/The_Sims_4/
Halo Wars 2
https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/Halo-Wars-2/C21TDXKRNMHZ
News Items and sources:
Valve Seemingly Bans All Steam Games That Require Watching Advertisements To Play
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/valve-seemingly-bans-all-steam-games-that-require-watching-advertisements-to-play/1100-6529356/
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/advertising
Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor hits out at RPG devs trying to recruit them for their Disco Elysium successors: "Miss me with that casting call"
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/baldurs-gate-3-karlach-actor-hits-out-at-rpg-devs-trying-to-recruit-them-for-their-disco-elysium-successors-miss-me-with-that-casting-call/
The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/02/the-sims-re-release-shows-whats-wrong-with-big-publishers-and-single-player-games/
