Author Archives: Robert Allen

Since being a toddler, Robert Allen has been immersed in video games, anime, and tokusatsu. Currently, his days are spent teaching at two southern California colleges. But his evenings and weekends are filled with STGs, RPGs, and action titles and well at writing for Tech-Gaming since 2007.

Moco Moco Friends review

Manga, anime, and gaming witches have a challenging gig. Not only must they protect their pantaloons/pantsu from overexposure, as impossibly short skirts are the normative clothing choice, but they frequently fall victim to formula. Often ...

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New Game Releases: Nov. 26th-Dec. 2nd, 2015

From attacking alien mecha-fish in Darius Burst: Chronicle Saviours to a monochromatic bear well-versed in Chinese martial arts (that’d be Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends), this week’s schedule of new game releases reveals ...

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Steelseries Rival 100 review

The quest to find the ideal computer mouse can often seem like a near-insurmountable task. With differences in performance, ergonomics, aesthetics, weight, size, and price, the market is filled with scores of subtle variations, making ...

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Sound of Drop – fall into poison – review

Good horror has the ability to transform the conventional into something quite scary. Whether it’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s ability to make the rural seem menacing, Ringu’s haunting representation of past technologies, or Final Destination’s ...

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Netgear ReadyNAS 212 review

There’s an ever increasing number of reasons why home and small offices should invest in network attached storage, commonly referred to as NAS. Microsoft’s recent rescindment of unlimited cloud-based for Office365 users means that Home, ...

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Stella Glow review

While it’s sad to see a disappointing game cause a developer to fold, it’s exceptionally tragic to witness a studio shut down after a string of successes. Not long ago, Tokyo-based Imageepoch was riding a ...

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Call of Duty: Black Ops III review

It might be time to amend Benjamin Franklin’s quote; the certainties of life are now death, taxes, and a new Call of Duty game. After more than a decade of annual entries, Activision’s war machine ...

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Superbeat: Xonic review

Lately, portables have received a steady stream of rhythm games, between Hatsune Miku’s trio of titles and Rise Kujikawa’s return to the entertainment world in Persona 4: Dancing All Night. PS Vita owners can add ...

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