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VGL Podcast Ep 346: The Sims Repeat Review
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VGL Podcast Ep 346: The Sims Repeat Review

Video Game Logic Podcast

February 14, 20251h 7m

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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/