Facebook manipulates users' news feeds. What a shock, I say.

"Anger Builds Over Facebook's Emotion-Manipulation Study"

"Facebook Responds to Negative Reactions to Its Experiment on Users"

Hey, owsf2000, your policy of logging into and checking Facebook literally only once a year is looking ever more appealing to me, I have to say.

"Ultim-Ancestor: Underworld Ascension"

Consider me very intrigued by this.

You know, to go off on a semi-related tangent, I should finally play Arx Fatalis someday. Someone mentioned that in the comments under the article, which is why I remembered that I actually have that game. However, despite it being the first game I ever purchased on GOG.com, I never got around to actually installing and playing it for whatever reason, to my mild chagrin.

"Dreamfall Chapters becomes episodic, will take place over five parts"

This news is somewhat amusing to me, because I had somehow missed the previous news that Dreamfall Chapters wasn't going to be episodic. But now, apparently, it is episodic again? How about that. *shrug*

All it means for me is that I'll simply be waiting until the entire thing is available before I try to play it, same as I did and will do for all of the various Telltale Games series, such as The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, or Phoenix Online Studios games such as Cognition. (See also StarCraft II, though it's looking less and less likely that I'll pick that one up at all, even when it is all available, simply because I no longer like Blizzard even remotely as much as I used to.)

I just hope they don't end up pulling a Legacy of Kain or a Shenmue or a The Silver Lining and only release part of it, then never finish it. Seriously, for The Silver Lining, they released the first four episodes over a relatively short time frame during 2010-2011, but now, almost three years later, they still have not completed the final fifth episode. Hell, they made an entire other episodic game during the time away from TSL (see Cognition, above, which they created to make the profit that they weren't getting from the freeware TSL), though they keep claiming that they're "still working on it" in regards to TSL. Hopefully that is indeed true. Well, I'll still keep not playing it until the whole thing is released. For what it's worth, I've been waiting for this game for almost a decade now from back when it was still called King's Quest IX (and the game has been brought back and then cancelled again and then brought back again, before finally being released... mostly), so I can wait a little more. In the meantime, maybe I'll someday get around to finishingrestarting Cognition, of which I've still only played the first episode thanks to a game-breaking bug in the second episode which made it unplayable (which, to be fair, they have since fixed, but I still just haven't gone back to it yet).

Wow, I went almost completely off-topic there. So, uh, yeah... Dreamfall Chapters is episodic (again).

"The Kerbal Sims Program: The Sims 4"

Here is an article that delineates another reason why I won't be getting The Sims 4 any time soon (as I've already said probably too many times before). I don't want or need cowplants or spaceships in my Sims game. I don't even necessarily want or need that stuff in an expansion pack to come later, let alone in the base level game as it stands now.