There's at one distinctive difference. Valve is not funding the development of titles contingent upon using only Steam. Their approach is, "You've got a game you're making? Put it up on our storefront." EA's approach feels more like, "You've got a real pretty game here. Be a shame if you ran out of money to…

Clearly, I've missed this one. Which movie?

For $10K, that widget ought to be teleporting delicious sandwiches from the finest kitchens around the world and placing them in front of me with linen napkins.

Important safety tip, kids: if your weapon is named, not merely "designated," don't disassemble it."

They got a lot of air play out in Phoenix around the millennium, then sorta dropped off the map, though they do come out and play live shows periodically.

HAX!

Possibly not, but if he didn't want it that badly, he could have thrown more dremora at the problem. I'm just wondering when one of the Daedric Princes is going to send the player on a quest to obtain a shrubbery.

Usually, yes. Molag Bal's quest in Skyrim was pretty low key, particularly for a being who tried to pull off an apocalypse once. A little white lie or two, a little forced conversion, a casual bludgeoning, not one that speaks of world-shattering evil. And Mehrunes Dagon's quest was almost virtuous compared to…

For $200, I'd thrown down for a statue of "Daedra Playing Poker." Sanguine, Sheogorath, Mephala, and Hermaeus Mora playing cards, with Mephala passing an ace to Hermaeus Mora under the table.

Only the Emperor, in all his glory on the Golden Throne of Holy Terra, looks out for the Ogrim. All praise to the Emperor of Mankind!

Meridia's quest is probably the most "good" aligned of the Daedrice Quests in Skyrim. Sanguine's quest is more "chaotic neutral," but also probably the funniest quest line in the entire game.

6. Thou Shalt Chill With The DRM

Damn you for reminding me those were a thing. I'd almost forgotten I used to take support calls on them.

Surprised one hasn't been made yet. It sounds kinda horrific, but you see it and it's just got this weirdly adorable aesthetic to it that doesn't make any sense at all. It's almost like somebody took the basics of Hello Kitty and leavened it with just a pinch of Lovecraft.

The ending tunes from Log Horizon, season 1 and 2, are both just the neatest little J-pop ditties floating around my brain these days. It's super hard to get either of them out of your head.

Because Hollywood hates heroic pulp.

I swear, I was working on the main story, and then I had one little random encounter, and BAM! I'm suddenly trying get named head of the Thieves' Guild while running around as a werewolf fighting for the Stormcloaks. It's really kinda screwed up. You're like Odysseus, always getting pulled off course and having…

Long before there was the "flash mob," there was the "Persuadatron Horde." The amount of time you spent on getting every civilian on the map persuaded was worth it when you led them into the critical spot where the target you had to eliminate appeared and died almost instantly as a hundred civilians and four badasses…

Apparently, we do.

• Civ V - It's like crack. Delicious history spanning crack. I think I'm still trying to get the Steam achievement for England and sinking ships.