Crash’s Ugly Twin: Trash Bandicoot

For the month of April, we thought it would be fitting to cover all the silliness gaming has to offer.  For the Duck’s first post of the month, I thought I’d talk a little bit about a rather wacky series I recently had the pleasure of playing, Crash Bandicoot.

Sunday Video Round Up: March 25 – 31

Happy Easter everyone! For those celebrating, I hope you’re enjoying the day with family and friends, so thanks for taking some time to stop by my site. Of course, it’s Sunday so that means it’s time for a brand new edition of the Round Up. Here’s a small taste of what’s to come. We’re only…

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YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #52

As we head into what we hope is a nice Easter/Passover/etc. weekend, we bid you all happy Friday! Yes, with the rising tides and setting sun, we’ve reach the end of yet another week, and that means it’s time to peek back into our week of gaming videos and share a few of our favorite…

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My Take on the New Atari VCS

Last week, Atari announced its latest gaming offering: the all-new Atari VCS. Formerly called the “Ataribox,” (from a defunct Kickstarter campaign from last year), the new VCS is a Linux-based machine with an AMD processor that promises to run games old and new. But even with the reveal, there still remained questions about the Atari…

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Hopefully Conquering Final Fantasy 8: Part 2

I’ve been slowly and steadily making progress in Final Fantasy 8, and I must say, I feel like I’m finally starting to get the hang of things.  As of writing this, I have just reached disc 2, and I have grown far fonder of the game and its characters than I did on my first…

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Sunday Video Round Up: March 18 – 24

The Round Up has returned once more, bringing you all the best video game trailers and gameplay from the past week. Here’s a few highlights to be on the lookout for with the full list waiting for you below the break. Outside of Far Cry 5, one of the biggest (if not the biggest) games…

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Virtual Bastion Presents: April Fool’s Month!

Hey all, April is right around the corner! In fact, April Fool’s Day is exactly one week away! Commemorating the arrival of spring has become something of a tradition around here, but we haven’t really done all that much with this trickiest of holidays (if you can call it that). This April happens to mark…

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YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition, #51

THANK GOODNESS IT’S FRIDAY!!! Whew. Sorry for being so loud about it, but sometimes you just have to emphatically sing the praises of Friday! And as it is another glorious Friday, it is time for us to share some of our YouTube Highlights. This is our weekly round-up of what went down (or up?) recently…

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On Being a “Good” Player of Video Games

When I sat down to write this post, I initially had in mind to cover some of the recent news concerning Far Cry 5, due out March 27th, concerning it’s length. The crux of the article was going to be something along the lines of “does game’s length matter anymore?” But then, as I was…

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Epic Releases $12 Million Worth of Paragon Assets

Earlier today, Epic Games announced that about $12 million worth of assets from it’s defunct MOBA game, Paragon, are now available on the Unreal Marketplace for all Unreal Engine 4 developers to use. This by itself is pretty amazing, but here comes the real kicker: it’s all free! (video from YouTube user: Unreal Engine) That’s…

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Virtual Bastion T-Shirts are Here!

We’ve got a very special announcement today, folks!  Virtual Bastion has recently opened a t-shirt shop on SpreadShirt!  Right now, we’ve got several variations on the classic Virtual Bastion logo, and we’ll be sure to add more snazzy new designs in the future.  Show off your love of gaming from retro to modern with some…

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Sunday Video Round Up: March 11 – 17

Sunday is finally here and that means it’s time for an all new edition of the Video Round Up. Kick back as the latest gameplay videos and trailers from the industry have all been collected for your viewing pleasure. All you need to do is turn up the volume and press play. One of the…

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