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Call me gullible, or curious, or something in between, but thanks to the new Amazon Fallout series, I have joined the throngs in returning to the Fallout games’ various wastelands. The TV show, enjoyable as it is, however, is only one part of the bandwagon equation. The other is that Bethesda released last week its…
As fun as it is, Helldivers 2 isn’t without its flaws. What the team over at Arrowhead has accomplished with the game so far is absolutely commendable, but I’d be lying if I said that the bug list wasn’t becoming distracting, especially the ones affecting some of the weapons. Fortunately though, it seems some of…
When I first got into Helldivers 2, I did so more or less on impulse after my friendshyped it up for a bit. I didn’t think it would be as good as they were saying, and, intruth, it’s not. It’s not a perfect experience and has a lot of issues to iron out yet. However,…
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It seems like only yesterday that I began tackling the weird and wild world of law under the guise of fresh-faced defense attorney Apollo Justice. In fact, it’s been a few months since I began that journey thanks to the Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy for the Switch, and it just recently concluded. When I…
Sometimes you gotta hand it to Valve. While they hardly make games anymore, they have been steadfast in keeping their existing titles in good working order. Case in point: Team Fortress 2. The game released all the way back in 2007, but Valve is still dutifully maintaining it.
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince follows three heroes, Amadeus the wizard, Pontius the knight, and Zoya the thief on their quest to find Prince Selius and figure out a solution to the young man’s rampant nightmare magic. The game is a puzzle-platformer, and thanks to each character’s unique moveset, there are multiple ways to progress…
We’ve spent the last roughly two months talking about how gaming has evolved over the last decade and how we, as gamers, have changed, as well. A lot has happened in these past ten years, some good, some bad, but one thing is for certain. Gaming is going stronger than it ever has before, reaching…
Recently, I had the misfortune of being without internet for a couple of weeks. To put it simply it was rather inconvenient. I couldn’t play most of the games I’d been working on, couldn’t watch a lot of TV and couldn’t really do any writing. Even so, it was kind of nice in a way….
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Though my familiarity with video games goes back to the mid-1980s, it was not until the late 2000s that I began to think of myself as a regular “player.” I personally mark that changeover to the moment when I was first introduced to expansive, narrative-driven, choice-heavy games via Fable. Before this, I played primarily platfomers…
When it comes to movies based on video games, typically it’s only the biggest and most famous series that get considered. Yet, it looks like that might be changing. See, Dredge is now apparently in consideration for a full film adaptation. Setting the average (low) quality of video game-based movies, that’s kinda big.
As we near the end of our roughly two-month anniversary celebration, we are tasked now with taking a good hard look at our ourselves to decide how we, as gamers, have changed over the last decade. Not only do I hope that I’ve grown in skill (though it’s doubtful), but my preferences have changed, as…
For this last week of personal posts for Virtual Bastion’s tenth (ish) anniversary, we decided it’d be a good opportunity to take a look back at our gaming lives and see how we’ve changed as gamers. We already discussed views and such last week, so this time I think the focus will be on taste…
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In real life, I work with relics of the past. I preserve little bits of history so that future folks know what life today was like. Sometimes, it’s tough, especially on the days when the “future” feels so bleak that I see nothing but a Fallout-esque future. Other times, it feels like the best job…
PC Gamer reports that, in response to Ubisoft’s recent shutdown of The Crew, an organization by the name of “Stop Killing Games” has launched a campaign pushing game preservation. Specifically, they are urging gamers around the world to sign petitions and send them to their respective governments, urging them to look into rendering games inoperable.
Back on June 9 of 2013, I wrote a long rant entitled, well, “A Rant Concerning My Growing Indifference to New Games, Plus Why Game Stores and New Consoles Can Irritate Me”. It was apparently listed as my ninth ever post on the blog, and I pretty much ranted about the exact things listed in…
As our tenth anniversary continues, we decided it’d be a good chance to take a look back at the first few months of Virtual Bastion and compare some of our thoughts then with those we hold now. Have we changed over these past few years, or have our opinions solidified? To answer that question in…
When tasked with the simple action of choosing my favorite games of 2013-2023, things proved not so simple. That’s mainly because the first list I came up with not only long but also, as I was working just from memory, contained a number of games that came out just before 2013. Eliminating those games helped…
The Virtual Bastion 10 Year Anniversary celebration continues, and so does our look back at some of the headlines of the past! For this entry, we figured it’d be cool to take a look back at the past generation of consoles and the games people were celebrating at its end. We’ve actually been about two…
Ten years have gone by, and now it’s time to list the Duck’s ten very favorite games from the last decade, ranging from horror to Metroidvania to expansive adventure and platformer games. The last decade saw the release of some pretty amazing games from well-known series, along with a whole bunch of amazing indie gems. …
I probably don’t need to tell any of you that 10 years is a long time, so picking just 10 games out from a literal decade of awesome stuff took some real thought. There are of course the games you instantly remember, but ot all of those were great experiences, you know? Sometines you can…
It’s difficult to describe the past decade in gaming in a nutshell, especially when you throw the pandemic in to the mix. For much of the decade, it seemed the industry was on a certain trajectory, which unexpectedly shot off into the stratosphere and is now just normalizing. If there’s anything good to say about…
Since we’re still taking time to look back this week, we thought it’d be fun to take a look at some of the headlines from the past! Our first blast from the past: the Ouya! I wonder: how many people these days even remember the Ouya? At one point it was going to be the…
For the Duck’s own list of the top 5 most important gaming events of the last decade, I’ve got a mix of good and bad. On one hand, certain companies have gotten greedier than ever. In the middle, we have well-intentioned developers who attempted to deliver a good product, failed, then tried their best to…
When we first started United We Game/Virtual Bastion, gaming was in a very different place than it is now. Many things that are commonplace now were unthinkable then, and games themselves were largely different in how they were designed. Even the way we engage with games is radically different these days, so…how did we get…
When we were considering weekly topics for our grand anniversary, this question of “what’s kept us going?” seems like an obvious one to include. In a world where blogs come and go (so quickly sometimes, it’s hard to keep up!), longevity is something of a “golden egg.” Did it just happen that the three of…
Dragon’s Dogma 2 finally drops this Friday, but fans can check out some more of what they’re in for right now thnks to some new gameplay posted to YouTube by the game’s director: Hideaki Itsuno. Those who played the original probably already know what to expect, but everyone else should check out the video below:
Seeing as Virtual Bastion has been going strong for more than a decade, with the same team of three since the very beginning, there must be a pretty good reason why we’ve kept chugging along all these years when many other blogs have long since closed their doors. For me, I think I have to…
Last week, instead of jumping right into the topic, I instead took a moment to reflect on the fact that ten years really is a long time. Most of, perhaps even all, our blogging peers from 2013 have moved onto other things by now, but we’re still chugging right along somehow. Why is that?
After years of existing in relative obscurity, Sea of Thieves is back in the news as PlayStation fans flock to get their pre-orders in for the upcoming port. Both versions of th game currently sit within the top 5 of the most pre-ordered list for PlayStation, with the premium version of the game occupying the…
You know, it’s still kind of insane to me that we’ve managed to last 10+ years as a blog. Most of our peers from that time have, for one reason or another, moved onto other things yet here we are somehow still chugging right along. We’re all going to talk about that a bit more…
It’s kind of hard to believe that ten-plus years have already passed since we started Virtual Bastion (then “United We Game”) back in 2013. Our little space on the net isn’t quite what it was in the beginning, but I like to think that we haven’t changed all *that* much over the course of the…
It seems like another lifetime ago that three bloggers – Hatm0nster, The Duck of Indeed, and myself — came together to form United We Game. The site, which debuted in the spring of 2013, was all about sharing our love of gaming and inviting others to share their own gaming stories. As time went on,…
Late on Sunday, Helldivers 2 players got a big surprise with the sudden addition of mechs into the game. Now mechs were apparently announced a long time ago, so their existence isn’t the surprise. Rather it’s theirs and other vehicle’s sudden surfacing that is. How it’s come about is not yet clear at the time…
Tetragon is a 2D puzzle game that follows the story of a father looking for his missing son. The demo covers a good handful of these puzzles, all of which take place within a square-shaped space. While your character cannot jump, he can climb and utilize two tools for changing his environment. First off, you…
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