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Merry Listmas! In considering our first topic of the season – our bestest (or mostly so) buds in games – my mind immediately went to the most obvious place…BioWare. We’ve been traipsing around game worlds with teammates and companions by our sides for decades, but BioWare companions, or at least some of them, are second…
Recently, Microsoft announced several editions for Avowed, the newest game being made by Obsidian. While they all had goodies that people are sure to like, none actually included the game on an actual disc, and that’s got fans of physical media upset. Truly, it looks like Microsoft has given up on physical media altogether, and…
RPGs are typically known for their grand stories and complex characters. Alongside turn-based fighting where allies and foes alike take turns slapping each other silly. Ahem, considering these kinds of games usually give us a wide array of characters that we can choose to travel alongside us, we thought it would be a good idea…
At last the Christmas season has come again, and so has Listmas, one of our longest- running traditions here at Virtual Bastion! As Cary explained earlier this week, this year we’re looking at the best gifts in gaming: all the friends, allies and companions we’ve gotten to journey with over the years. As fun as…
Each year, when a chill sets in and the smell of hot chocolate wafts dreamily in the background, we know that Listmas isn’t far away. Of course, it also means that the end-of-year holidays are on the horizon; but it wouldn’t be the holidays in the blogosphere without Listmas! For over a decade, we’ve been…
Ever since the release of the Switch, Nintendo has pretty much been the only game in town for handheld gaming. Yes, there is the Steam Deck, which is a great option for playing PC games on the go, but it’s not exactly in direct competition with Switch in the way that the 3DS and PS…
As part of one’s Nintendo Switch Online subscription, apparently free game trials are available, in which you have a limited time to play a game for free. I just found this out recently when Nintendo emailed me about a game trial for a puzzle game called A Little to the Left. I had about a…
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To say I was looking forward to playing The Plucky Squire after it was first announced in 2022 is an understatement. With modest promises of a 2023 release that became a late 2024 release, I became a little obsessed with following any crumbs of news about it, just hoping that this little game with big…
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