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.

Bit.Trip Runner Review

Long before games used complex narratives to engage participants, our diversions often relied on a uncomplicated primal notion: they challenged players to save alive as long as possible. Tapping into our self-preservation instincts, titles like ...

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Agent Provocateur- Alpha Protocol Review

Regrettably, most games which have depicted the espionage business have focused on visceral rudiments. Although players have been offered exhilarating car chases and gratifying gunplay, the more cerebral exploits of the spy trade are often ...

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Kart and Paste- ModNation Racers Review

In 1983, a young programmer named Bill Budge taught the gaming industry a critical lesson: occasionally, there’s more fun to be found in designing your own diversions, that in playing prefabricated ones. Budge’s Pinball Construction ...

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Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition Review

Despite the ability of contemporary consoles to articulate any kind of imagined world – from a post-apocalyptic landscape to a medieval countryside, most of our games reflect familiar settings. Typically, processing power is used to ...

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The Tech-Gaming Podcast, World 3-2

On this week’s podcast, the Tech-Gaming crew discusses the futility of plastic firearm accessories , the German Dog Police , and wainscoting. Since we also enjoy that terribly addictive pastime , the trio offers impressions ...

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Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Review

While the signature mechanic of the Prince of Persia series is the protagonist’s ability to rewind time, the franchise’s other temporal-tweaking device has been the reboot. From the transformation of Jordan Mechner’s side scrolling platformer ...

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Rocket Knight Review

I’ve spent years passionately expanding my knowledge of retro games of all types and generations, but Rocket Knight Adventures was a game that I was blessed with playing in my youth. Later in life, I was able ...

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