At the beginning of 2013, I finally got around to playing Red Dead Redemption. We had rented to game some months earlier, and though it looked interesting at the time, I was too engrossed in other games to really take notice. But rather than just forget about RDR completely, I instead picked it up on…
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DisHonored: A Ruthless Return
Perception is everything. I consider myself a DisHonored fan. I loved the game when it initially released back in 2012. I eagerly awaited and played through both of its side-story/prequel DLC add-ons. I’ll even go so far as to say that it’s one of my favorite games. So, I was rather excited to return to it as…
Revisiting our “Favorite” Games
Inspired by a notion we recently saw floating around our Twitter feed, we’ve decided to pilot a small project involving our “favorite” games. And we don’t have “favorite” there in quotes for emphasis, but rather because this project involves us challenging the idea of favorites when it comes to games. When we say “[insert game…
Fallout: Overpowered and Loving It!
Image captured by Hatmonster Fallout 4 is on its way, are you prepared to venture back out into the Wasteland? As of the announcement at E3, I was not. It had been years since I’d played a Fallout game, and had forgotten much about what dealing with life in the wasteland meant. The excitement for…
Getting Back To It: Fable II
Image captured by Hatm0nster In my ongoing mission to finally return to the games that have been languishing on my replay list, this month I finally got back to Fable II. The game was a favorite of mine back in the early days of the Xbox 360, when menu blades were still a thing and…
Six Favorite Gaming Secrets…Or Maybe Five?
All month long, United We Game is celebrating secrets, hoaxes, and trickery in games with a new writing challenge. Click here for the details and join in the fun! I’m not much of an artist when it comes to discovering secrets in games. While it seems that some players are imbued with a magical honing…
Gaming’s Best Foolery: Secrets and Hoaxes
We swear we’re not fooling around with a new community writing challenge, for it is with a little April Foolery in mind that we offer up a new topic this month about secrets, hoaxes, and general (yet fun) trickery in games! It’s no secret that developers have been hiding some fun and frustrating secrets in…
Getting Back To It – Final Fantasy XIII
Image By Flickr User: RoninKengo (cc) Happy Easter everyone! It’s hard to believe that we’ve already departed March and made it to April, but it’s happened and with a new month comes a new report back from memory lane. For March I decided to return to Final Fantasy XIII, and it actually held up surprisingly…
What is a Video Game? – It’s a Connection
Photo taken by Hatm0nstar Earlier this month we decided to take on the question of “What is a video game?” and challenged our fellows to do the same. At first I thought it was a difficult question to say the least. I mean how do you come up with a definition that actually reflects everything…
The Big Question: What Really is a Video Game?
When we decided on the topic of “defining a video game”, it seemed rather easy at first. If you’re even here reading this, that means you have an interest in the subject, and in this day and age, if someone told me they didn’t know what a video game was, I would be rather shocked….
VIRTUAL BASTION 