Tag: gaming

Angst and Admiration Abound in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

It seems like only yesterday that I began tackling the weird and wild world of law under the guise of fresh-faced defense attorney Apollo Justice. In fact, it’s been a few months since I began that journey thanks to the Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy for the Switch, and it just recently concluded. When I…

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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…

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How My Sleepy Adult Self Has Changed as a Gamer

As we near the end of our roughly two-month anniversary celebration, we are tasked now with taking a good hard look at our ourselves to decide how we, as gamers, have changed over the last decade.  Not only do I hope that I’ve grown in skill (though it’s doubtful), but my preferences have changed, as…

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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…

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‘Stop Killing Games’ Launches Preservation Campaign

PC Gamer reports that, in response to Ubisoft’s recent shutdown of The Crew, an organization by the name of “Stop Killing Games” has launched a campaign pushing game preservation. Specifically, they are urging gamers around the world to sign petitions and send them to their respective governments, urging them to look into rendering games inoperable.

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…

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A Look Back: News Byte – Eurogamer’s ‘Game of the Generation’

The Virtual Bastion 10 Year Anniversary celebration continues, and so does our look back at some of the headlines of the past! For this entry, we figured it’d be cool to take a look back at the past generation of consoles and the games people were celebrating at its end. We’ve actually been about two…

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