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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My Changing Tides as a Video Game Player
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…
My personal plea to those in the game industry…AGAIN
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…
Hat’s Ten Favorite Games From the Past Ten Years or So
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…
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…
The Biggest Gaming Happenings of the 2010’s
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…
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…
Virtual Bastion Anniversary – How On Earth Are We Still Here??
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?
I Loved Zelda-ween!
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…
When Games Bring Out Your Ugly Side
For the most part, I think games are supposed to be a relaxing thing. Once your day is done and its compliment of tasks are completed, enjoying a game should be a matter of stress-free fun. I think this is mostly the case for single player games, but, for me, multiplayer is a different story….
VIRTUAL BASTION 