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.

Bravely Default Review

Robert’s Take: For many, the 16- and 32-bit eras represented the golden age of Japanese role-playing games. Although modern entries in the genre may exhibit cutting-edge visuals and nuanced play mechanics, there’s a large constituency ...

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Q&A with OUYA’s Kellee Santiago

Tech-Gaming: Before we delve into OUYA discussion, let’s talk your impact on the industry. Following your graduation from University of Southern California’s interactive media program, you went onto help form thatgamecompany- the studio responsible for ...

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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Review

While Japanese gamers have enjoyed the virtues of visual novels for over thirty years (purportedly 1983’s Hito de Nashi no Rakuin ~Fukei Kankin Inukan Choukyou~ is the medium’s inaugural entry), the genre has only recently ...

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Podcast 13-8: Insistently Yelling Helgast

In episode 13-8 of the Tech-Gaming Podcast, the crew offers impressions of Bionic Dues, Secrets of Raetikon, Insurgency, Killzone: Mercenary, Gunhouse, and Bravely Default before MonkeyPaw Games’ Ryan Olsen stops by to discuss the company’s ...

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New Game Releases: January 24th-30th, 2014

This week’s list of new releases features of number of anticipated releases, from Lara Croft’s foray onto next-generation consoles to Double Fine’s delivery on a crowd-funded title. For retro aficionados, a few games are capable ...

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Assassin’s Creed: Liberation HD Review

Although adaptations like Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery and Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines have tried to translate the allure of Ubisoft’s flagship franchise onto portable screens, the DS and PSP hardware weren’t quite able to capture the ...

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New Game Releases: January 17th-23rd, 2014

With anticipated titles such as Bravely Default, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII still several weeks away, players remain in the midst of a post-holiday shortage of new games. One company ...

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The Banner Saga Review

Undoubtedly, The Banner Saga’s prologue is a harbinger of the challenges which await. Following a succinct voiceover which establishes a bleak backdrop of deceased gods, a stationary sun, and a landscape engulfed in a perpetual ...

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