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With most of the industry recovering from the four-day deluge of games known as E3, this week offers up a quantity of conventional titles. Beyond Electronic Art’s simulation of mixed martial arts in EA Sports ...

Today was a day of technological treats for Tech-Gaming.  We started with Gioteck, a company that continues to prove they can provide quality peripherals at affordable prices.  They showed us a number of upcoming headsets ...

One of the distressing deficiencies of the E3 pressers was the complete lack of Japanese role-playing games. Fortunately, a visit to the Namco-Bandai meeting room helped to cure this shortcoming. After viewing Dragon Ball Xenoverse, ...

E3 starts early for some, and this week CD Projekt Red and GOG.com kicked things off in Santa Monica with a live steam event for their upcoming releases.  The crew released some exciting news about ...

While online gaming forums might be fueled by contention, there’s one premise that almost all players maintain: our games have become dramatically easier over the years. Whereas failure could once be measured by the rapid ...

Two things will be dominating the industry this week: 1) the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo and 2) the interactive adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon 2. Given the incursion of a giant as well ...

Pundits who claim that the plotlines of Japanese role-playing games have atrophied into a puddle of tired tropes likely overlooked 2010’s Hyperdimension Neptunia and its two sequels- subtitled Mk2 and Victory. Throughout the imaginative franchise, ...

With the plethora of peripherals available to the gaming market, it’s no wonder so many of them get overlooked.  Some are superfluous, others are downright useless, and a good percentage of them are priced at ...

As the world’s most prolific golf franchise, Electronic Art’s PGA Tour series has gone through a number of noteworthy phases. The franchise’s inaugural entry, 1990’s PGA Tour Golf, strove to simulate the sport by not ...

With titles such as Mario Kart 8, Klonoa: Empire of Dreams, and Mega Man Xtreme 2 due, this week’s list of releases offers a number of familiar franchises. Most remarkable is the number of new ...