Ron Burke

This year has been a rich and varied landscape for strategy games, both real-time and turn-based. Masters of Orion: Conquer the Stars, Ashes of the Singularity, XCOM 2, Homeworld: Remastered, Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, The Banner Saga 2, Offworld Trading Company, Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII, and the upcoming

Tempest is an open-world seafaring adventure, casting you as customizer, cannoneer, and course charting captain. Part RPG and part resource management simulation, Tempest looks to put a tricorn hat back on our head and reinvigorate the pirate genre. Thankfully, Tempest is fairly seaworthy, even if it has a few barnacles.

Neon Chrome feels like what might happen if classic cinematic masterpiece Blade Runner and isometric gorefest Crusader: No Remorse met up, fell in love, and had a top-down shooter baby. It’s not always perfect, but it scratches a very particular cyberpunk itch. Playing as a nameless character, you find

I called Forza Horizon 2 “Easily the best racer I’ve played in the last decade,” in my review, leaving Playground Games a tough act to follow. An incredible amount of content, over 200 cars, non-intrusive multiplayer, and some of the best arcade action on any platform had me singing

By Brad Wardell (Stardock) and Ron Burke (GamingTrend) During both of our PC gaming lifetimes, we’ve always built our own machines. As putting together computers has consistently become simpler throughout the years (with the notable exception of having to worry about heat) an alarming trend of form over function

While one of the hottest summers on record continues to crisp us up in north Texas, Laura and I take to the scary outdoors for a look at the latest offering from Sumo Lounge: the Sumo Air. Built of 300-grade ripstop nylon, the Sumo Air is as durable as it

Politics. Always the hot-button topic no matter which side of the aisle you reside. Now you at home can debate the important issues affecting society with the same dignity as our enigmatic leaders. It’s time to tackle topics such as Medicare, Government Surveillance, and Prostitution and get ready to

There hasn’t been a lot of innovation in the peripheral input device market beyond higher DPI mice. Sure, we had trackballs, gun-shaped mice, the Novint Falcon, and the SpaceOrb 360, just to name a few, but none of these added much to the equation. One idea that has had