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.

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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New Game Releases: January 10th-16th, 2014

This week’s roster of new releases offers a few familiar faces. From the return of Aveline de Grandpré for the high-definition, console-based reworking of Assassin’s Creed Liberation to an appearance by the perpetually assistive Chibi ...

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New Game Releases: January 3rd-9th, 2014

Last week’s post-holiday eShop rush was unexpectedly intense, besieging Nintendo’s servers and taking the digital service offline for several days. As such, the company’s selection of weekly releases might look familiar- many of the games ...

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Zen Pinball 2 (PlayStation 4) Review

Although the PlayStation 4’s software library is still in an embryonic stage, Sony’s new system already has two pinball titles in its lineup. Remarkably, the two games take radically different approaches to the beloved pastime. ...

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