The Gaming Companion

Part 2 of a multi-part series on video game preservation! If you want to read along, this is also available as a blog post here: https://open.substack.com/pub/gamingcompanion/p/the-death-of-owning-games-part-2?r=2wjum1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

That leaked document can be found here: https://imgur.com/a/t2UKOha

Part 1 of a multi-part series on video game preservation! If you want to read along, this is also available as a blog post here: https://open.substack.com/pub/gamingcompanion/p/the-death-of-owning-games-part-1?r=2wjum1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

"The Path of the Goblin King" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Between BG3 winning GOTY and the multiple layoffs in the industry, a lot of good things happened in 2023, and a lot of bad things happened. Here are some of my thoughts on how the year went down.

TL;DR: I'm going to keep "Minecraft" in my YouTube titles :) I didn't mention servers at all in this — and a lot of the discussion is focused on just servers. Just apply the same logic I did: they didn't mention any major changes to the EULA as it relates to servers, so I wouldn't worry about that either.Further reading: The EULA update announcement: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-eula-and-commercial-usage-guidelines-updates The main MC EULA: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/eula The usage guidelines: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/usage-guidelinesMusic from FreePD, "The Crown" by Alexander Nakarada

Nostalgia in games is a tricky one. There's nothing wrong with having favourite childhood games, but knowing when to put the nostalgia to one side and focus on the present is also important. In this episode, I cover the main ways nostalgia can show, some ways to get around it, and the most common marketing tactics used that target our love of retro games.