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.

A4Tech Multi-Core Gun3 V7 Gaming Mouse Review

With PC gaming has long enjoyed a fervent following, there’s one nagging blemish on the platform: control is typically handled with equipment designed for scrolling through spreadsheets rather than securing headshots. Recognizing an opportunity, manufacturers ...

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Crysis 3 Review

From Doom’s demon decimating BFG 9000 to Call of Duty: Black Ops II’s demoralizing PDW-57 submachine gun, first-person shooters have a long history of conveying empowerment through dominating devices. That said, few franchises can compare ...

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Podcast 12-5: Pee Ess Fore!

This week, Robert, Jeremy, Eric and Sage offer their often-irrelevant analysis of the PlayStation 4 presser as well as impressions of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Big Sky Infinity, Bentley’s Hack Pack, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Unfinished ...

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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Review

Literary critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge once proposed that if authors impart “human interest and a semblance of truth” into an otherwise far-fetched story, readers could temporarily suspend disbelief.  Over the years, this theory has been ...

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Hauppauge HD PVR 2 1512 Review

Not long ago, if you wanted to seize the output of a game console, the sole feasible option was an expensive and bulky professional-level video capture device. Thanks to the introduction of consumer-level equipment developed ...

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Aliens: Colonial Marines Review

While I’ve generally had little difficulty maintaining journalistic objectivism during E3 demonstrations, Randy Pitchford’s Aliens: Colonial Marines walk-through proved to be one of the rare exceptions, stoking the fires of a fervent Aliens fanboy. Driven ...

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Dead Space 3 Review

Although survival is a pervasive theme in interactive entertainment, the first two entries in the Dead Space franchise provided a pair of remarkably engrossing depictions of the struggle for existence. Pitting protagonist Isaac Clark against ...

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