Ron Burke

It’s fun being the boss.  I get to make the rules, and then I get to break them.  Why?  Refer to the beginning of this paragraph.  See?  Awesome. Being frank, 2014 was the year of broken games.  We saw unstable, buggy, and incomplete games pushed into the hands of

There’s something about touchscreen games that just doesn’t work well for me.  Whether it’s my hands being in the way of the action, or fighting with on-screen controls, I generally shy away from touchscreen games entirely.  However, when Shadowrun Returns came out, I picked it up for

It’s a tale as old as time itself.  You are a pilot, docking at a space station, dropping in for some fuel. As you are heading to security, an alien named Junker absconds with your suitcase.  Now it’s up to you and your newfound sentient luggage case (that

Like all great myths, the story of Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris begins with betrayal and sibling rivalry.  So the legend goes, the God King Osiris and his wife Isis ruled over ancient Egypt with wisdom and benevolence.  The real myth of this betrayal was that Osiris’s

Gaming Trend Editors Kenneth Shepard and Eric Van Allen have made their sojurn to the desert (it’s in Las Vegas — no need to feel bad for them) to dig up all that is fit to print on the Sony PlayStation Experience.  New trailers, fresh hands-on perspectives, and so much

Being committed to a fiction requires more than a slick veneer to pull your audience in.  It requires a great deal of backstory, detail, and in the case of Assassin’s Creed, filling in large swaths of history.  The team at Insight Editions did exactly that last year for The

This is how it’s done. There are art books that I’ve checked out in the past that give you the journey from inception to release, but others that seem to focus almost exclusively on the final product. The latter makes for a far more compelling look behind the

I’m a dork. I have a Magic Galleon punching hand puppet from Lunar the Silver Star, pilsner glasses from the original Burnout, a full-sized chainsword replica from Warhammer: Space Marine, a Keyblade from Kingdom Hearts, and far more than fits in my office neatly. Now, nestled neatly between my