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.

NASCAR The Game 2011 Review

Although I’ve spent weeks careening around the replicated tarmac surfaces of the Forza, F1, and Shift franchises, the merits of a concentrated stock car simulation have largely evaded me. Blame the three-year hiatus since console ...

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Podcast 6-9: Everyone Falls for Paper Dolls

This week SeanNOLA offers impressions on Playstation Move Heroes and assails the notion of ‘paper dolls’ in modern RPGs, while Samurage finds gratification in Anomaly: Warzone Earth. Meanwhile DesertEagle dusts off his Move controller to ...

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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars Review

At first glance, Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars is an unlikely 3DS inaugural title. With a launch library focusing on exhibiting quick, palatable demonstrations of the hardware’s capabilities, a thoughtful turn-based game which delivers a middling ...

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More Face Than Heel- WWE All Stars Review

Although popular perception often regards professional wrestling as an insubstantial diversion, contemporary recreations of the sport deliver a involved experience. With complex control systems, intricate storylines, and aspirations for authenticity, most of today’s wresting games ...

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Podcast 6-8: Nothing But Ninjas

This week the shuriken-throwing, tabi-wearing trio deliver stealthy impressions of 3rd Birthday, Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, Super Street Fighter IV 3D multiplayer, Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, as well as Streets of Rage ...

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StarDrone Review

With a resume which includes the (as of yet unreleased) 2010 Independent Games Festival honoree, MelodyBloxx, as well as the woeful Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter, the quality of Beatshapers output has varied widely. With StarDrone, the ...

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Major League Baseball 2K11 Review

With a fervent amount of critical acclaim and an impressive amount of polish garnered across its eleven year lifecycle, the MLB: The Show franchise is the interactive equivalent of the New York Yankees. Love them ...

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