It’s April Fool’s Month on Virtual Bastion! Join us as we celebrate all the silly and kooky things we love about games and gaming. My first theme for the month is running gags. There’s so much ridiculousness here, I can hardly contain myself! When it comes to comedy, sometimes a good running gag really hits…
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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…
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…
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…
YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #50
Welcome back to our humble abode, dear friends and acquaintances. This week marks our fiftieth YouTube highlights post, and oh, what things we have to share for it! We bid a bittersweet adieu to one Let’s Play, traveled with a dragon as it took down beasties of all sorts, and enjoyed a lovely piano tune…
Is Gaming Teachable?
I’m not one for having random conversations on public transportation, but every now and then, a random human manages to briefly crack my self-imposed shell. And on rare occasions, the words that arise evoke something interesting. One such occasion happened to me just a couple days ago. I was on the bus minding my own…
YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #49
Hello and good day to all our fine Internet friends! We’re happy to welcome in a little sunshine on this fine Friday, because, after all, it is Friday. And we can think of no better way to celebrate the arrival of yet another Friday than with more YouTube Highlights! Yes, it is that most glorious…
Persona 3 Portable: Update 2
I don’t know if it’s me or the game, but even though I’ve only progressed a mere 10 hours since my Persona 3 Portable intro post in January, it feels like I’ve accomplished tons. It might be that the game kicked things up a notch with the addition of a couple new teammates. It might…
YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #48
Another week, another YouTube Highlights post! And a fine hello to one and all. Somehow we’ve come round to yet another Friday, (funny how that happens…) and so we must dispense with sharing a little gaming frivolity courtesy of our YouTube channel. Not that our videos are frivolous…no, not at all! We aim to bring…
I Ain’t Afraid of No AR Ghosts!
This past weekend, Sony announced their brand new venture into the world of augmented reality (AR) games: Ghostbusters World. As far as comparisons go, think of a mobile game like Pokémon Go! but with proton packs and ghosts rather than pokeballs and Pokémon.
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