Bold and Dashing

Gaming in style

Month: October 2014

  • It puts the video in the basket

    Videos will promote positive sentiment about the game. Videos must not show bugs or glitches that may exist.

    — Quote from the boilerplate agreement YouTubers are presented with in the promotion of Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor.

    Maybe I’m just unfamiliar with legal marketing speak but something about the tone creeps me out.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bek6nQGw520

     

  • Should a mummy zombie be referred to as a zummy or a mumby?

    I snatched up the three newer expansion packs for CK2 at a Steam sale, very apropos of the last post. Seeing as most everything was 75% off I even paid up for some custom culture portraits which change the appearance of the affected culture’s characters from the default vaguely northwestern European to something more local. Are they any good? Well, they’re different.