Tag: gaming

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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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…

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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…

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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…

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Cary’s Fav Event: Getting Sketchy with 1 Hour 1 Sketch

So, we’ve kicked off our 10th anniversary with the question what is our favorite UWG/VB event? Well, for that, I have to look waaaaay back to when we first crashed onto the Internet as United We Game. What strikes me the most is how different the blogosphere was in 2013/14. I don’t know if we…

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Pre-Orders Flood In for Sea of Thieves on PlayStation

After years of existing in relative obscurity, Sea of Thieves is back in the news as PlayStation fans flock to get their pre-orders in for the upcoming port. Both versions of th game currently sit within the top 5 of the most pre-ordered list for PlayStation, with the premium version of the game occupying the…

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