Ron Burke
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Video games and technology of all types. I love VR!
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I'm not a sports person, beyond UFC. I am not a mobile phone gamer at all.
Editor in Chief of gamingtrend.com
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Ron Burke’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a grid"Let there be one ruler, one king" -- Total War Saga: Troy review
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There are few legends as well known or as oft-retold as the Iliad. War, betrayal, love, Gods, mythical monsters, and heroes of legends -- Homer's epic poem has it all. The team at Creative Assembly Sofia have chosen it as their first full release in the Total War universe -- Total War Saga: Troy.
Destiny, Anthem, and Diablo walk into a bar -- Marvel's Avengers Beta hands-on preview
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After half a dozen hours with Marvel's Avengers, I'm left with the feeling that we are just seeing the start of something interesting. After literal decades of waiting for a good Avengers game, we've finally gotten our hands on what Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics have put together. Encapsulating t
Gamify your core workouts -- the Stealth Core Trainer workout Board review
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I'm going to start this review talking a little about how I got to this point in my life. I was severely injured in an explosion in the military, losing 75% of my hearing, a good portion of my balance, and picking up nosebleeds and persistent migraines. I didn't handle it well.
Music is the sound of the soul -- EPOS Sennheiser GSX 300 review
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I've recently purchased a high end gaming laptop. It has every bell and whistle you can possibly want including a 2080 Super, a 240Hz refresh monitor, Thunderbolt 3 support, all M.2 storage, and more. You know what it doesn't have? Decent audio.
"There's so much more to discover before the world ends" -- Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition r...
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If there's a title that made PC players seriously consider abandoning their favorite platform and picking up a console, it's Horizon Zero Dawn. Absolutely gorgeous, the game captivated us and gave us a completely unique combat experience as we fought giant mechanized dinosaurs in our battle to retak
Toy Tuesday - Unboxing Thor and Black Widow Funko Pop Vinyls
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As we ramp up for the release of Marvel's Avengers from Square Enix, we've gotten the chance to check out some awesome Funko Pop Vinyls, courtesy of Entertainment Earth. Today we will check out two of them -- Thor and Black Widow.
"The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed." -- Gamedec hands-on preview
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In some far-flung, neon-soaked future, the world is more virtual than ever. The fidelity of fabricated reality is so high that people can spend vast amounts of their lives in the virtual world, often to the detriment of their real-world lives. Like any well-oiled simulation, eventually it'll be infi
"I think this calls for the Jumbo Probe" -- Destroy All Humans (2020) review
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Destroy All Humans! is a cult classic. A wisecracking alien named Cryptosporidium-137 (or Crypto for short) has landed on Earth in the year 1959 and quickly finds a deep and burning desire to destroy mankind to harvest their DNA.
Unboxing the Destroy All Humans! DNA Collector's Edition
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Crypto is back, and we've gotten our grubby little human paws on the Destroy All Humans! DNA Collector's Edition. We've unboxed it. That's what we do. What's in the box? Let's see... This unique example of human craftsmanship is brought to you by your benevolent Furon overlords Crown you
Unboxing the Destroy All Humans! Crypto-137 Collector's Edition
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There are collector's editions, and then there are collector's editions. Destroy All Humans! is back, and we've gotten our hands on the Crypto-137 edition -- a special edition of the game featuring a nearly 2' tall statue and a backpack with a shockingly small storage compartment. Let's see what e
Thunderbolt powerhouse -- Seagate FireCuda Gaming Dock review
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Seagate has been stretching their legs lately. They've launched high-end NVMe drives aimed at gamers like the FireCuda 510 (our review), and then followed it up with a Gen4 drive in the FireCuda 520 (our review). They've delivered awesome speeds for the Xbox One via their SSD-powered Game Drive (our
Portable 4K/60 Powerhouse -- AVerMedia Live Gamer BOLT review
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AVerMedia has been fueling our captures for a few years now. Ultra reliable and easy to use, they let us capture high resolution video with rock solid framerates.
Unboxing Seagate's The Last of Us Part II Limited Edition Hard Drive
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Seagate is back with a new limited edition hard drive for The Last of Us Part II (you can read our review right here). We take a closer look at the device, as well as the other two collector's edition drives in this unboxing video.
Unboxing the NECA 40th Anniversary Big Chap Alien
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I've recently gotten my hands on the 40th Anniversary "Big Chap" Alien from NECA. In this video I unbox it, showcase the whole thing, and do a quick comparison versus the 1979 Kenner original.
I am Iron Man -- Marvel's Iron Man VR review
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There are few Marvel characters as beloved as Iron Man. He has the best toys, more money than sense, and a larger-than-life persona that serves to fill the room as much as it hides the deeply-flawed individual underneath.
In space, no one can hear you scream -- Hardspace: Shipbreaker hands-on preview
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You exit your habitat, work order popping up on your HUD -- you've got a ship to rip apart. Oops, you tore a hole in your suit as you exited the airlock -- death by asphyxiation. Cracked your helmet as a rogue piece of aluminum goes zipping by?
"You have no idea what loss is" -- The Last of Us Part II review
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The Last of Us II is a cinematic masterpiece, filled with some of the best writing of any medium, so I want to be as respectful as I can to anyone not wanting that spoiled for them. To that end, this review will be the lightest of touches on anything story related, aiming to preserve the experience.