Ron Burke

About a month ago you might recall that I got a sneak peek at Ubisoft’s freshly-renamed Immortals: Fenyx Rising. This early look covered a point roughly midway through the game, touching on the Forgelands — the land of the God Hephaestus, forgemaster of the Gods. This time around we’d

Before we get into this review too far, let’s talk a little bit about reference design. The first few laptops that come out each “generation” typically have a somewhat base set of features based around a particular chipset, and then each manufacturer iterates on that design. Sometimes it’s

When the epic score from John Williams formally introduced us to Jurassic Park back in the 90s, it sent shivers down my spine as a kid. Who doesn’t love dinosaurs? I had that same whole-body reaction when I heard that familiar music playing Jurassic World Evolution (my review on

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