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Jim Sterling, born James Stanton, is a freelance video game journalist, critic, and pundit. Prior to becoming completely independent in September 2014 through crowdfunding, Sterling was the review editor for Destructoid and a content creator for The Escapist.
The Jimquisition is a weekly YouTube video series in which Jim Sterling discusses current issues surrounding video games. Such topics include pre-order culture, gender issues and early access games. The series originally started on Destructoid’s YouTube channel and was later moved to The Escapist's channel. Currently his other series include Best of Steam Greenlight where he watches and comments on poorly made or games that have been sold only using unaltered pre-purchased assets (known as "asset flipping"), gameplays of different games released on Steam, often games of poor quality, and itch.io tasty series where he plays various videogames available on itch.io under various topics.
In November 2014, Sterling announced that he was leaving The Escapist and intended to seek funding for his work independently through the Patreon website. He has also stated the desire to go back to writing articles and doing podcasts, which he wasn't able to do since he left Destructoid., but has since done on his own website (thejimquisition.com), creating "The Podquisition", a podcast that he shares with Gavin Dunne and Laura K Buzz.