I was too hasty when I condemned the gang earlier for skipping so many podcasts. Putting them continually closer and closer together until you have to deliver a 24 hour live stream seems to be a reasonable compromise.
The steam version of Bastion has been on sale recently for $5 and may go even lower if it becomes a daily deal during the Xmas sale on now.
Portal and portal 2 combo are on sale for 7.50 today.
Wombat is correct in criticizing what passes for journalism in gaming. The reason that embargoes exist is because the game industry has the press scared into doing what they want, when they want. Somehow movie and music criticism is possible without embargoes, perhaps because the media wields...
I'm going to play this on consoles to avoid Origin. And I'm not American so I take this moment to kvetch a bit more about the paucity of games and particularly deals on Amazon.ca.