Celeste is a difficult game about mountain climbing and self-acceptance. Spread across 7 main chapters and 2 optional ones, the gameplay is a mix of fun challenges and pure agony. Though, when it’s all done, you gotta admit that the sense of accomplishment is undeniable. Because ranking things is fun, I decided to rank all…
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Nintendo Swings for the Fences
Well, what an interesting year, and then some, it’s shaping up to be in the world of gaming! After the Xbox Showcase at Game Fest, I didn’t think much else could come out on top. But, Nintendo then went and released a phenomenal Direct that proved they are still in it to win it. Though…
Favorite Summer Game Fest (and More) Reveals
At some point soon, we’ll all (or just me, at least) will stop calling Game Fest “not E3,” but until then…this past weekend was, indeed, not E3. It was the Summer Game Fest, plus Sony’s own State of Play, that brought forth a slew of gaming content, known and unknown, that players will see this…
Top 10 Creepiest Dredge Aberrations
In a unique little fishing game called Dredge, there’s always this uneasy sense that something is not right. And one of the most obvious examples of this are the aberrations, bizarre and sometimes outright grotesque mutations of normally mundane fish. Having now gotten 100% of the trophies in the main game, I was required to…
Cary’s Fav Games of 2013-2023
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 Duck’s Ten Best Games of the Last Ten Years
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. …
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…
The Duck’s Most Anticipated Games of 2024
Now that 2023 is over, we have another year’s worth of games to look forward to. To be honest, I don’t have a whole lot of games I’m particularly excited about, but of the few on my list, at least there’s some nice variety, including a remake of one of my favorite RPGs, a relaxing…
Hatmonster’s Most Anticapted Games for 2024 and Beyond
You know, there was once a time when you could make a list like this for just the coming year. There were enough games confirmed for it that you could confidently talk about what you were looking forward to playing within the next few months or so. Now though? Now release dates tend to be…
Hatmonster’s 2023 GotY: BG3 and…
I’ve been hearing a lot of talk recently calling 2023 one of the best years in gaming. To be completely honest, I don’t see it. I mean, yeah, a lot of pretty good stuff came out this year, but I feel as though very little of it was actually memorable or impactful. In my case,…
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