Ron Burke

It’s been just over 20 years since Baldur’s Gate II came out. Jon Irenicus, the game’s primary antagonist, served as one of the best bad guys in CRPG history, driving the player to hell (literally) and back to foil his grand bid to gain immortality. The game

I remember riding in a car headed to a gaming event talking to some fellow press members when one of them casually mentioned that he was playing Torchlight: Frontiers. I wasn’t aware that the game was even on the horizon and, given the number of hours I’ve sunk

With over 80 years of history to draw from, you know that Marvel’s Avengers wasn’t going to suffer from a lack of inspiration. The team at Titan Books has teamed up with Crystal Dynamics to tell the story behind the story with their new book, Marvel’s Avengers:

I’m old. Like, really old. I’m so old that I can still tell you how to write an autoexec.bat and config.sys to get my drivers loaded high and configure my 16-bit Sound Blaster card — no Midi here! These early days of computer gaming gave us incredible

It’s almost time to the world of Ember as Perfect World Entertainment and Echtra Games have announced that Torchlight III will be exiting Early Access and headed to launch on October 13th for Steam, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.  (The Switch version will follow at some point later this

I grew up on pirate games like Sid Meier’s Pirates! and tycoon titles such as Caesar and M.U.L.E.; these games put you behind the wheel. They were a blend of city planning, economic development, and warfare, giving players the keys to every aspect of the game

There has been a lot of discussion on what constitutes a remaster nowadays, but there are a few games that raise the bar to the point where they could be considered a completely new product as the rework is so complete. It’s in that way that Mafia’s remaster

It’s a question that comes up with every upgrade cycle, and the answer is always “It depends”. That question, of course, is “Is this a good time to upgrade my video card?” Well, NVIDIA has announced their GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 cards, and this time around the answer