Jennifer Hale is light years ahead of the voice acting for ANY main character in any game I’ve played. The characters in Witcher are voiced well, but no - not nearly as good as Hale’s Shepard.

Usually the cutoff is whether or not they have PhD or other doctoral programs. In New York at least, I’m not aware of any non-Universities that offer PhD’s.

Yes, looks like! According to the Kickstarter: “We are still debating the best ways to present combat as that is ultimately dictated by the final budget, but rest assured it will be party and turn/phase based.”

I wasn't terribly interested until I saw that Alexander Siddig would be playing Doran Martell. After Pedro Pascal playing Oberyn, its a hard act to follow but I think he looks perfect for the role in the promotional pictures I've seen.

The sooner you stop the better. Emphysema took my mother at 50 and she stopped smoking close to 40. She always said that if she stopped sooner that less damage would have been done. I don't know how young you are but regardless, do what you can to stop (with help from doctors, friends, etc.).

There leader would have to be either Wayne Gretzkey or Tim Horton of course.

That's Miguel and he's Leena's father. The music playing there that you mention is one of (if not the) best songs in the game, "People Seized with Life". I highly recommend checking it out if you haven't heard it (or haven't heard it in a while).

That was a great commercial, very well done (loved the look of the US map in it too). The images they used for the quarterbacks (with the filters/lighting) really fit well with it. Though it helps that Colin Kaepernick looks like he would fit well in Game of Thrones as some sort of warrior from Asshai or somewhere…

Chris Avellone is working on this, as well as contributing to both of the inXile games: Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera (the spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment).

I really have enjoyed this game. Haven't gotten past level 4 or so due to non-game issues but for $5 its an amazing bargain. The art style is cool (and if not innovative, at least new to me) and the music really fits the game. All the classes you can summon give it replay value.

• Game: Civilization IV