Author: cary

Top Stories: A Decade in Review

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…

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We’re in this Together – Maintaining Motivation

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…

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Cary’s Fav Event: Getting Sketchy with 1 Hour 1 Sketch

So, we’ve kicked off our 10th anniversary with the question what is our favorite UWG/VB event? Well, for that, I have to look waaaaay back to when we first crashed onto the Internet as United We Game. What strikes me the most is how different the blogosphere was in 2013/14. I don’t know if we…

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Still Going Strong: Celebrating Virtual Bastion’s 10th Anniversary

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,…

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Big Times in Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Over my winter break, I was looking to clear out my backlog a little, and I stumbled across Sackboy: A Big Adventure. It had become free at some point through PS Plus, and as I had heard decent things about it when it was new, I snatched it up…only to have it sit, sit, and…

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