Tag: Virtual Bastion

Spooktober 2025: The Spooky Flash Games of Yesteryear

Whenever Halloween season rolls around, my mind cannot help but wander back, at least once or twice, to the hey day of the old internet. Those of you who were around in the early- to mid-2000s might remember it, a wild world of cheaply made websites and hundreds, if not thousands of flash games made…

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Happy Spooktober!

If it’s October (and, hey, it is!), then that means only one thing around these parts…it’s Spooktober! If the name didn’t give it away, Spooktober is our annual celebration in October of all things scary in games. In past years, we’ve themed our Spooktober event, but not this year. This year, we’re presenting a more…

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The Ancient Art of the Cheat Code

Well, here we are at the end of September already. These events always go once again facing the end wishing there was too fast somehow, and now I am more time to talk. Ther’s how it goes, though. So instead of mourning the end of Sneaky Secrets in September, let’s instead celebrate it by discussing…

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The Worst Kept Secret in Conker’s Bad Fur Day

In the pantheon of 3D platformers, Rare’s Conker’s Bad Fur Day is a bit of an outlier. It has the bones of an exploration game with the muscle of a puzzle-platformer and the brains of an action-platformer. But its most noticeable departure from tradition has to do with collecting. Unlike its most comparable titles (Banjo-Kazooie,…

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Costco Removes Xbox Products After Latest Price Increase

“Unprecedented” is a really good word to describe the current console generation. While there have certainly been many great games released since the debut of PS5 and Xbox Series consoles, they haven’t made the same kind of difference that past hardware has, which many have found disappointing to say the least. Even more so the…

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Elden Ring’s Wealth of Secrets

As fun as it was finding all the little out of the way passages (and sometimes bosses) in Hollow Knight, I still think Elden Ring reigns supreme when it comes to secrets and discoveries. Again, these aren’t secrets in the same way that Stop ‘n’ Swop and normal Easter eggs are, but rather locations and…

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Full Remake Announced For Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly

Those wondering if Koei Tecmo was still interested in developing the Fatal Frame series need ponder it no longer. Not only has the publisher announced a new entry into the series but that entry also happens to be a full remake for Fatal Frame’s most celebrated title. Yup, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake is…

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