James Stephanie Sterling
An Animated Analysis Of Asset Annexation (The Jimquisition)
Whenever you use premade assets for your work, you run the risk of buying in good faith something that was sold in bad faith. This is...
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James Stephanie Sterling
- Mar 17
Accessibility And Gamer Pride (The Jimquisition)
Accessibility is all the rage these days, and that's a good thing. Well, unless you're a gatekeeping elitist, in which case you're...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Mar 11
So, Should We Stop Saying JRPG? (The Jimquisition)
Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida has sparked a discussion over the term JRPG, and how it makes certain Japanese developers...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Mar 11
How AI Takes The Art Out Of The Artist (The Jimquisition)
AI generated art is all the rage right now, but have you noticed it's been sold with the same techbro evangelicalism that tried to shove...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Feb 20
The Under 800,000 Subscriber Special! (The Jimquisition)
What? YES! We have hit another milestone in our historic plummet toward the gutter, and it's time for the moment you've all been waiting...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Feb 13
Hogwarts: A Legacy Of Hate (The Jimquisition)
J.K. Rowling is a transphobe who uses the success of Harry Potter to claim her vile views are justified. Hogwarts Legacy is a game that...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Feb 6
I Was 100% Right About The Stupid Live Service Gold Rush (The Jimquisition)
This past week saw a whole pile of live services - including Rumbleverse - shut their doors. This follows Square Enix closing a whole...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Jan 30
Those Layoffs (The Jimquisition)
The tech industry is seeing massive layoffs, with Microsoft alone jettisoning 10,000 people in the face of slow growth. The key word...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Jan 23
Marvels Avengers: The Disgrace That Was (The Jimquisition)
Marvel's Avengers is finally closing its doors after failing to make waves as one of Square Enix's many "live service" games. Let's look...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Jan 16
When Wizards Of The Coast Tried To Be A D&D Landlord (The Jimquisition)
I had a ton of requests to cover this one. While not strictly videogame related, the situation with Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons &...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Jan 9
Square Enix Can't Stop Being Terrible (The Jimquisition)
Yes, we have to talk about Square Enix again. They shut down ANOTHER game after just 13 months, and their scummy president has doubled...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Jan 2
Dead Services (The Jimquisition)
I'd like to report a murder. Or maybe it's a mercy killing. Either way, when it comes to Square Enix and so-called "live services,"...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Dec 26, 2022
Top Ten Shittiest Games Of 2022 (The Jimquisition)
It's the final episode of 2022, and you know what that means. Time to look at the worst, the pits, the dregs, the shittiest games of the...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Dec 19, 2022
The Jimquisition Game Of The Year Awards 2022
It's that time again! Time for The Jimquisition Awards, where we pick five games that exemplify something good about an industry we spent...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Dec 12, 2022
Microsoft's Little Pity Party (The Jimquisition)
Microsoft feels pretty sorry for itself lately, and it wants you to sympathize. As Phil Spencer chats nonsense regarding $70 games and...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Dec 5, 2022
Pokémon 2077 (The Jimquisition)
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet is a bad game with terrible performance and a litany of broken bugs. That's not stopped it from selling 10...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Nov 28, 2022
Don't Even JOKE About Easy Modes In Dark Souls! (The Jimquisition)
The terrible topic of easy modes in Dark Souls rears its vile head once more. It's not my fault, though! I've learned that the topic is...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Nov 21, 2022
The Sonic Man Did Bad Money Things And Square Enix Is Also Bad... Allegedly (The Jimquisition)
Yuji Naka, co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog, got arrested for insider trading at Square Enix. Oh what a wicked web! Let's use it as an...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Nov 7, 2022
Modern Warfare II, PR As Journalism, And Consensual Plagiarism (The Jimquisition)
When journalist Laura Kate Dale got offered a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, she received some extra fun - the chance to...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Oct 31, 2022
How An Ex-Bayonetta Actor Torpedoed Her Reputation In Record Time (The Jimquisition)
Hellena Taylor's story simply will not end, as she's gone from hero to villain so quickly we've barely had time to breathe. In what...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Oct 24, 2022
So The Bayonetta 3 Mess Got Messier (The Jimquisition)
Oh what an amazing disaster. Platinum Games has hit back at accusations from Bayonetta's former voice actor... unofficially, anyway. The...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Oct 17, 2022
Bayonetta's Payonetta (The Jimquisition)
Bayonetta 3 is at the center of a controversy that exploded over the weekend, with voice actor Hellena Taylor revealing why she won't...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Oct 10, 2022
Overwatch 2: Blizzard's Latest Travesty (The Jimquisition)
Overwatch 2 is a free-to-play monstrosity, and it's hardly surprising. The years between the original Overwatch and its sequel saw...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Oct 3, 2022
Google Stadia R.I.P And L.O.L (The Jimquisition)
Google Stadia is finally dead. I mean, it's been dead from the start, but Google finally did what Google does best, and put a bullet in...
James Stephanie Sterling
- Sep 26, 2022
Dunkey, Vampires, And Staying In One's Lane (The Jimquisition)
Dunkey announced his own game publishing company, Bigmode, and the response was... not universally calm. So let's talk about that. And...
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