Ron Burke

When Sony and Microsoft announced their new consoles the first thought I had was that the anemic hard drives must have saved them literally tens of dollars. 500GB of space might have been an amazing amount of space at one point in time, but with games like Batman: Arkham Knight

We’ve colonized through the ages, we’ve built impressive armies, and we’ve even taken to the stars, but for the first time we are going to take our territorialism to the sea. Firaxis and 2K Games has announced the first expansion to Civilization: Beyond Earth entitled Rising Tide.

The team at Obsidian are Grandmaster storytellers. Fallout 3 was a hit, but it’s Fallout: New Vegas that is regarded as the better installment. It was no surprise that their spiritual successor to the Baldur’s Gate universe, Pillars of Eternity, would be an excellent RPG. You can see

There are times in your life when you start a project and in your heart of hearts you know what you are doing is right. You feel it deep in your soul. When you meet people who are in that same situation, you are instantly drawn in and you get

When people think of 4X games, there is one game that pretty much defined it — Masters of Orion. Much of what we see in modern 4X games have their roots in that title from 1993. While there were sequels, the original is still regarded as superior. When Atari folded it

You’ve been sitting in this blind for days.  You try to ignore whatever the hell just crawled up your leg, and you are thankful you’ve sealed off your boots with OD-green tape.  Your stomach is empty, and even an MRE sounds pretty amazing right now.  But you can’

You might remember Crazy Machines or it’s sequel from over a decade ago.  They were wacky physics-based puzzlers, asking players to solve puzzles by experimenting with simply insane Rube Goldberg machines.  Well, for the 10th Anniversary of Crazy Machines 2, you can get all of the previous DLC, along

At E3 you take a lot of appointments. In fact, across three days we ended up taking nearly 70 of them between the eight of us. The best part about having that much chaos in your life in such a short period of time is that it makes the real