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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!

1. Games We Played
2. Valve Seemingly Bans All Steam Games That Require Watching Advertisements To Play
3. 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"
4. 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/