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As people grow older, the people and hobbies they identified with as teenagers may fall by the wayside. Gamers may give up gaming for the sake of a more adult lifestyle, or change the kinds of games they play. The people they once enjoyed hanging out with may be replaced by new co-workers, or not replaced at all but simply left behind. For some aging gamers, isolation and loss of identity can set in, leading to mental health issues on top of the physical health issues common to getting older. As...

When Althena proposed to Selbaek and me the idea of getting our online groove back, I wasn't sure what the future would look like. But in a year's time, we've had a lot of fun and have built a nice little community in the process. I look forward to another year of seeing where this community experiment takes us!

Tomorrow night at 7:30pm CT/8:30pm ET, we will be getting together on our Twitch channel to discuss what this last year's been like and what's in store. We...

For those of you who are on Bluesky, you now have another way of keeping in touch with the goings-on here at Valiant Gamers! We just opened our account there today, found at the link below. We plan on announcing our Twitch streams there when we go live, along with any future Valiant Together announcements. Hope to see you there!

https://bsky.app/profile/valiantgamers.com...

It stands to reason that one of the purposes of a video gaming community is to come together and play some games. To that end, we recently held our first site-wide game night this past Tuesday. The turnout was quite good, and a lot of fun was had playing the FPS classic Doom! Our plan is to hold a Valiant Together night once a month, with a different game each event. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please check out the forum for news and announcements for future events!...

The next in our lineup of Valiant Gamer's Game of the Month is LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete. Released in North America in 2000 by the famous Working Designs, this was the direct sequel to LUNAR: Silver Star Story Complete. Taking place a thousand years after the events of the first game, it follows Hiro, a young adventurer and explorer who comes across a mysterious girl named Lucia, with a surprising link to the Blue Star. Together they meet a whole new band of characters, and see some old ones,...

Thanks to Selbaek, we got two GotMs for the price of one. He graciously brought us both Mega Man Legends and its sequel for the month of April. We had a great turnout from the community during each stream, and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

But you all didn't stop there! Thanks to you all, our first community-selected Game of the Month will be EarthBound! Random Encounter will be taking on this one, and the first EB stream will start on Thursday, May 2nd, at 7:30pm CST/ 8:30...

The amount of support and enthusiasm the community has shown for our Game of the Month series has been nothing short of incredible! We really appreciate you all, and Valiant Gamers would be nothing without you!

Because this is a community effort, we want to play the games you want to see. April's GotM will be Mega Man Legends, brought to us by none other than Selbaek, but there are a lot more months in the year ahead of us. That's where you come in! Each month, we will put the Game...

Our second Game of the Month will be Game Art's/Working Design's LUNAR: Silver Star Story Complete. Released in 1999, it is the PS1 successor to LUNAR: The Silver Star, for the Sega CD. It tells the story of Alex Noah, a determined boy from a peaceful mountain village, who wants to be a great hero. This game, though formulaic, set the standard for much of the genre going forward, and it has stayed relevant with its well written story, unique setting and loveable characters....

Hello everyone! For my first article, I wanted to go over a few things to get on the same page, like what went through our minds when we decided to bring back a project from 20 years ago, if anyone even asked for this, etc.

When I took ownership of GameSekai back in 2005, I wanted to take an already thriving community that I loved and make sure I preserved it. I was lucky. I had an amazing team at my disposal who exceeded all the expectations I could hope for. They consistently went...

Tomorrow night at 8pm on Twitch, Random Encounter will go live once again as he progresses further through our Game of the Month for February, Vagrant Story. We hope to see you there!

https://www.twitch.tv/random__encounter...

Valiant Gamers' inaugural Game of the Month is Vagrant Story! Released in 2000, Vagrant Story tells the tale of Ashley Riot, a Riskbreaker agent investigating a corrupt politician with occult ties in the kingdom of Valendia. The game's setting takes place in Ivalice, the same world first featured in Final Fantasy Tactics and explored later in Final Fantasy XII. The gameplay is a hybrid of real-time action and tactics-oriented RPG elements. The soundtrack, composed by...

Before 2001, the Internet looked much different than it does today. Google was still in its early days, and large social media hubs like Reddit and Facebook weren't even a concept. Most online traffic centered around scattered pockets of forums and chat rooms. One such forum, Gamingforce, hosted a user base passionate not only for video games but also video game music.

In 2001, a handful of Gamingforce users, eager to realize their own vision, set off to make an online space of their...