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.

Unicorn Overlord review

Vanillaware retains its long-running reign, with the studio delivering another enchanting experience. Osaka-based Vanillaware confidently pushes genres in innovative directions. 2007’s GrimGrimoire adapted the mechanics of real-time strategy games – placing them on side-scrolling, two-dimensional ...

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New Releases: March 14th-20th, 2024

Before baseball season begins later this month, MLB The Show 24 takes a leadoff, heading onto consoles this week. Alone in the Dark also arrives this week, providing a reimaging of the 1992 survival horror ...

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Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story review

Boasting skilled curation, Digital Eclipse delivers a mixed-medium digital museum dedicated to the life of Jeff Minter. With each image, video interview, and playable game, it builds a strong argument that the developer commonly known ...

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Bore Blasters review

“I’m Gonna Make You Mine”, 8BitSkull boasts. While there are people who dig shallow holes in the ground for fun, hobby tunneling can become an obsession. In California’s Mojave Desert, a man known as William ...

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Timemelters review

Spend the evening playing with yourselves. From being able to slow the world around you in Max Payne, controling the pace of combat in SUPERHOT, to slowing, stopping, or even reversing the clock in Timeshift, ...

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Ufouria: The Saga 2 mini-review

Sunsoft’s NES title receives an unessential follow-up more than three decades later. Recently, Sony and Microsoft have begun to port some of their exclusives onto PC. But beyond a few mobile-based spin-offs, Nintendo has been ...

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New Releases: March 7th-13th, 2024

This week, the remainder of the Command & Conquer franchise unshackles itself from EA’s storefront and arrives on Steam. But that’s hardly the only retro title arriving, with Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story offering an ...

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Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator review

I could buy myself flowers- or at least build myself a garden. Given the number of agrarian-focused games on the market, there’s a good chance that you’re already a veteran digital horticulturist. Games like Story ...

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