The Sims has always been about marketing. EA puts a lot of stuff up that you can either buy, or not buy. A lot of the arguments against the monetization that EA has going on is therefore one sided, narrowminded and most of all, false.
While the four friends are underway to Denerim, Loghain elevates his biggest sycophant, Randon Howe, to leader of the Denerim Guards and as a personal advisor. The obvious weasly nature of Howe makes him an unlikely ally to Loghain, but maybe Loghain thinks that dire times call for strange bedfellows or maybe Howe was best choice out of the pool of people who are still loyal to him and Loghain is making do with what he's got.
I believe that if you do a hobby, you have to do it right. There's no sense in doing gaming and then restrict yourself to one system. My pet-system is still the 360 though, even if I sold off most of the games I bought for it over the years.
Digital Homicide, a developer who wears an oversized mantle of the 'indie-dev' variety (to put it mildly), once again finds himself as the focus of Jim Sterling's critique, what in itself has become clickbaiting made art. The entire tone of the video and the clear intent of it is questionable.
Today I bring you a gaming-channel, worked by Noah Caldwell-Gervais, that looks at games and gaming in a more cerebral manner. Noah creates games-videos that are almost mini-docus, puting games within the same franchise oftenly next to eachother. You'll need some free time when you sit down with one of his vids, in some cases you'll need three hours of spare time.
