Ron Burke

The last expansion for XCOM 2 was a solid upgrade to the seriousness of the base game, adding a lot of cosmetic options, but part of me felt like the community had already served this need and to better effect. This time around we are treated to something far more

What the hell is TASTEE? I found myself asking that same question when this game came across my desk. In this case, it stands for Tactical Asynchronous Simultaneous Turn-Based E-something Engine (seriously, they didn’t figure out that first E) but that doesn’t really explain everything TASTEE: Lethal Tactics

Battlezone was far ahead of its time when it released back in 1998. Back when the minimum requirements was a Pentium 90, this game had shooter elements as well as third-person RTS action. With in-vehicle combat, as well as on foot, it absolutely blew me away when compared to anything

You’ve probably noticed the ads for the swashbuckling sky piracy steampunk board game, Aether Captains on Gaming Trend.   As the game’s already-successful Kickstarter comes to a close in a week, we at Gaming Trend want to extend one more opportunity to get your hands on the game — this

The Shield TV is far more than a TV service aggregation platform. As you might have seen in my review of the system, it’s also a very capable gaming machine in its own right. Beyond its ability to stream from a GeForce-enabled PC, it’s also able to run

Bravely Default awoke something in me that had been lying dormant — my love of JRPGs. While Bravely Second: End Layer doesn’t quite live up to the lofty heights of its predecessor, it is every bit what you would expect from an old-school RPG. Welcome back Square Enix — we missed

Ashes of the Singularity will have none of your “turtling” nonsense. It was during the third level that I realized that Stardock and Oxide had made something very different than any RTS in recent memory. I sat back with my massive fleet and waited for an unknown dreadnought-type threat to

Death wants Pizza. For some reason, the denizens of the local cemetery, castles, and forests want to stop him from enjoying his favorite pie, and he and his female reaper sidekick, Rose, must use the power of progressively longer words to take them down. If Letter Quest Remastered: Grimm’s