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FromSoftware's Good Grace (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Mar 20, 2022

FromSoftware's Good Grace (The Jimquisition)

Special thanks to Stump Cross Caverns for this weeks filming location! https://www.stumpcrosscaverns.co.uk Elden Ring has been a...

Square Enix Is Poisoned (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Mar 13, 2022

Square Enix Is Poisoned (The Jimquisition)

Babylon's Fall and Chocobo GP have both recently demonstrated Square Enix's commitment to being an awful videogame publisher. It's the...

The Open World Is Not Enough (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Mar 6, 2022

The Open World Is Not Enough (The Jimquisition)

Elden Ring has demonstrated that open worlds don't have to be the sprawling, vapid, alleged sandboxes that have dominated "AAA" games....

Elden Ring And The Tiresome Dance Of Git Guddery (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Feb 27, 2022

Elden Ring And The Tiresome Dance Of Git Guddery (The Jimquisition)

Elden Ring is finally out, and with it has come the same circular discourse about accessibility and difficulty. We're not playing this time.

Some Whining Wankboys Think Aloy Looks Like A Man (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Feb 20, 2022

Some Whining Wankboys Think Aloy Looks Like A Man (The Jimquisition)

Horizon: Forbidden West has caused the usual crowd of nerdy whiners a real kerfuffle, because she doesn't look hot enough for their...

Did I Mention I Hate NFTs? (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Feb 13, 2022

Did I Mention I Hate NFTs? (The Jimquisition)

Yeah, another NFT episode, but I cannot overstate how thorough my disgust for them is, how dangerous they are, and how awful the game...

Insights From A Terrible Galaga Game (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Feb 6, 2022

Insights From A Terrible Galaga Game (The Jimquisition)

Galaga Wars+ is on Apple Arcade and it's absolutely atrocious. A slapdash rerelease of a free-to-play scam, it exposes just how terrible...

NFT Loot Boxes Are A Thing Because Everything Is Bad (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Jan 30, 2022

NFT Loot Boxes Are A Thing Because Everything Is Bad (The Jimquisition)

The shriveled corpse of Atari has inflicted a new blight upon the land - NFT loot boxes. They're NFTs (terrible) that behave like loot...

Obligatory Video About Microsoft Buying Activision (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Jan 23, 2022

Obligatory Video About Microsoft Buying Activision (The Jimquisition)

Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard in one of the biggest power moves this industry has ever seen. I guess we have to talk about...

James Stephanie Sterling

Jan 16, 2022

S... E... X (The Jimquisition)

Game Jolt's recent decision to ban so-called "p*rn games" leads your old pal James Stephanie Sterling to rant about the treatment of...

James Stephanie Sterling

Jan 9, 2022

Cryptovania (The Jimquisition)

Konami is the publisher y'all just love to hate, and recently it's jumped aboard a bandwagon held in equal contempt by decent people...

Square Enix Promises A Sickening NFT Future (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Jan 2, 2022

Square Enix Promises A Sickening NFT Future (The Jimquisition)

Square Enix has ripped off the mask to show just how cynical, just how exploitative, just how greedy the game industry is. As it embraces...

Top Ten Sh*ttiest Games Of 2021 (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Dec 26, 2021

Top Ten Sh*ttiest Games Of 2021 (The Jimquisition)

The year is wrapping up, and that means the grisly business must be undertaken yet again. Ten horrible, horrible games that contributed...

The Videogames I Didn't Completely Hate This Year Awards 2021 (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Dec 19, 2021

The Videogames I Didn't Completely Hate This Year Awards 2021 (The Jimquisition)

Awards are meaningless. Videogames don't deserve applause. It is, however, the end of the year, and that means trophies must be given...

Digipen: The College That Teaches Crunch Culture (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Dec 12, 2021

Digipen: The College That Teaches Crunch Culture (The Jimquisition)

DigiPen Institute of Technology is an incredibly influential establishment in the games industry. A college respected enough to land its...

The Stunning Cruelty Of Raven Software's Layoffs (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Dec 5, 2021

The Stunning Cruelty Of Raven Software's Layoffs (The Jimquisition)

Activision Blizzard isn't going to let a massive scandal over its work culture get in the way of some good old fashioned layoffs, and it...

When Games Media Forgets The Whole Abuse Thing (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Nov 28, 2021

When Games Media Forgets The Whole Abuse Thing (The Jimquisition)

When Ubisoft's horrific history of abuse was exposed last year, it stunned me how quickly games media moved on when it came time to...

Bobby Kotick Is An Abusive Monster (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Nov 21, 2021

Bobby Kotick Is An Abusive Monster (The Jimquisition)

The CEO of Activision Blizzard has been outed as a truly vile creep. Yes, somehow more so than before. Oh dear....

James Stephanie Sterling

Nov 14, 2021

Grand Theft Awful (The Jimquisition)

The Grand Theft Auto Trilogy, otherwise known hilariously as Grand Theft Auto Definitive Edition, is terrible. A disaster. A most amusing...

NFTs: Nasty Fucking Things (The Jimquisition)

James Stephanie Sterling

Nov 7, 2021

NFTs: Nasty Fucking Things (The Jimquisition)

NFTs are the latest craze, and they're horrible. A stain on the art world, a total scam, and environmentally damaging. Naturally,...