Author: cary

Cary’s 2025 Game of the Year – Herdling

I played a handful of solid new games this year, from romping through the afflicted Living Lands in Avowed, to exploring myths and legends of the American South in South of Midnight, to traveling the stars and then some in The Outer Worlds 2. Before my personal Game of the Year pick came along, any…

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Listmas 2025: Five False Starts Worth Revisiting

Like most folks who play video games, I maintain a perennial backlog of games that I want to play…someday. In recent years, a growing portion of my backlog is becoming populated with games that I started but never finished. Sometime me and the game at hand didn’t click; other times, I dropped these titles in…

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Listmas 2025: Top Songs from Games Played This Year

One of the newest additions to my music roster is a playlist of favorite songs from games. It’s something that was a long time coming, too! I listen to gaming soundtracks regularly, but until recently, I had never put together a playlist of individual songs from them that stood out from the rest. It contains…

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YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #422

Up this week: Happy holidays from all of us here at Virtual Bastion! YouTube Highlights is taking a small vacation over the next two weeks and will return in the new year on January 9, 2026. Join us then for lots more gaming goodness! Connect: wegameunited@gmail.comWatch: YouTube ~ Video BastionShop: Spreadshirt

Listmas 2025: Top Spots in skate.

If someone had told me six months ago that one of my most-played games of the last quarter of 2025 would be a skateboarding game, I’d have called them crazy. And yet, it’s true! I’m talking about the new and not-without-controversy title, skate. Released by EA in mid-September, skate. is a live-service, online game that’s…

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Listmas is Coming!

Do you hear that? The sounds of furious typing and hasty scribbling as holiday lists are made? While jingle bells may herald the arrival of candy in stockings and presents under a decorated tree, it’s these list-making sounds that we look forward to every year, for they mean Listmas is upon us once again!