Tag: Virtual Bastion

How I’ve Changed as a Gamer Since 2013

For this last week of personal posts for Virtual Bastion’s tenth (ish) anniversary, we decided it’d be a good opportunity to take a look back at our gaming lives and see how we’ve changed as gamers. We already discussed views and such last week, so this time I think the focus will be on taste…

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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.

Then and Now: The ‘Triple A’ Fun Factor

As our tenth anniversary continues, we decided it’d be a good chance to take a look back at the first few months of Virtual Bastion and compare some of our thoughts then with those we hold now. Have we changed over these past few years, or have our opinions solidified? To answer that question in…

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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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Hat’s Ten Favorite Games From the Past Ten Years or So

I probably don’t need to tell any of you that 10 years is a long time, so picking just 10 games out from a literal decade of awesome stuff took some real thought. There are of course the games you instantly remember, but ot all of those were great experiences, you know? Sometines you can…

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