Tag: Virtual Bastion

We Need Real Gaming Spaces to Come Back

Something that sometimes comes up in the discussion surrounding game prices is how preferable things are now compared to the age of arcades. Certainly, you’re probably getting more hours of entertainment per dollar than you would have playing quarter-guzzling arcade machines, and games have advanced massively since those days by just about every metric. Even…

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Herdling is the Best Money I’ve Spent on a Game in a Long Time

Released earlier this year, Herdling, from Okomotive, is an adventure game unlike any other. In it, players take the reigns as young shepherd who finds and guides herd of “calicorns” — large, furry, sheep-like beasts – from the lowlands to the highlands, and beyond. The lone shepherd’s journey begins in a city with a magic…

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Night Machine Steam Demo is Live

It’s an unusually slow news week this week, so instead of discussing whatever shenanigans are going on in the AAA sector of gaming, I instead come to you with a bit of indie news. I just learned of a new roguelike deckbuilder, one that’s got a pretty intriguing hook. The game is Night Machine and…

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Hollow Knight: Silksong Was Great, But I Prefer the Original After All

Like many fans of Hollow Knight, I spent the last several years eagerly awaiting the day that Team Cherry would finally release its sequel. I think I even reached a point where I told myself that I didn’t care anymore, after waiting 2-3 years without a single update from Team Cherry regarding Silksong’s progress. Yet,…

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Tim Cain Remarks on How Digital-Only Hasn’t Saved Gamers Any Money

Gaming has been around a long time, as have many of us who enjoy games as a proper hobby. We’ve a great many changes and shifts in the gaming market over our many years, but one of the most significant is one that has been nearly all-encompassing yet hasn’t delivered on the industry’s most important…

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Learning How to Play

I’ve been watching a channel on YouTube recently called SuperJoeBros. He focuses primarily on Donkey Kong games and has been doing a series where he plays through the SNES trilogy for the first time. It’s been fun to watch, but it was also a little frustrating at first. He’d make silly mistakes or have difficulty…

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Spooktober 2025: Arresting Arachnids

In a world of gaming filled with zombies, aliens, orcs, assassins, and mutated monsters, it may seem that there’s not much room left for the worst enemy of them all… …SPIDERS. While I personally find skeletons to be the most unsettling type of enemy throughout entertainment, spiders take a very close second. Oh, I’m fine…

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