Tag: video games

Hat’s Most Anticipated Games for 2026

Now that 2025 is over and the reflections on its best games are done, the time has finally come to look ahead to what’s coming down the pike this year. I’m not yet sure how 2026 will stack up against the past couple of years, but it’s definitely got potential. There’s a ton that I…

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Cary’s 2025 Game of the Year – Herdling

I played a handful of solid new games this year, from romping through the afflicted Living Lands in Avowed, to exploring myths and legends of the American South in South of Midnight, to traveling the stars and then some in The Outer Worlds 2. Before my personal Game of the Year pick came along, any…

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Reminiscing Over the Duck’s 2025 Year in Gaming

Every January, we each pick our choice for Game of the Year and discuss what exactly made it stand out above the rest.  But this is the very first year since the tradition began that I, well…I didn’t play any new games.  Sure, I did play a lot of games.  Just none that were released…

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Listmas 2025: Five False Starts Worth Revisiting

Like most folks who play video games, I maintain a perennial backlog of games that I want to play…someday. In recent years, a growing portion of my backlog is becoming populated with games that I started but never finished. Sometime me and the game at hand didn’t click; other times, I dropped these titles in…

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Listmas 2025: Ranking the Bosses of Kingdom Hearts

As you can no doubt tell, I’m in a big Kingdom Hearts mood, which means I’m ending my Listmas posts with yet another KH list!  Today, I’ll be ranking the boss battles from the first game, ranging from the absolute worst to the most fun.  Pretty simple, right?  Except, since there are so many bosses,…

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Listmas 2025: Top Songs from Games Played This Year

One of the newest additions to my music roster is a playlist of favorite songs from games. It’s something that was a long time coming, too! I listen to gaming soundtracks regularly, but until recently, I had never put together a playlist of individual songs from them that stood out from the rest. It contains…

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Listmas 2025: Ranking KH2.5’s Data Battles

Keeping with the Kingdom Hearts theme, I have been playing the Final Mix versions of the first two numbered games in the series, which features new boss fights, including battles against the members of Organization XIII who had originally appeared (and perished) in Chain of Memories.  This is great because I never enjoyed CoM’s card-based…

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YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #422

Up this week: Happy holidays from all of us here at Virtual Bastion! YouTube Highlights is taking a small vacation over the next two weeks and will return in the new year on January 9, 2026. Join us then for lots more gaming goodness! Connect: wegameunited@gmail.comWatch: YouTube ~ Video BastionShop: Spreadshirt