Category - Reviews

Antec Kuhler H20 920 CPU Liquid Cooler...

We decided to upgrade one of our gaming rigs to a newer LGA 1366 chipset, Intel i7-3770K processor and, as one would expect, encountered some issues while trying to overclock it with the stock CPU cooler. The Ivy Bridge chips are running much...

Tropico 4 Gold Edition Review (PC/Xbox 360)

Maxis turns 25 years old next year and one of their most influential titles of all time SimCity is just a year younger.  That’s give you an idea just how long city sims have been around, the title that put them on the map was sharing...

Natural Selection 2 – Review (PC)

Unknown Worlds Entertainment has finally released their sequel to their Half Life mod, Natural Selection, that was released way back in 2002.  Announced in 2006, Natural Selection has taken six years to get to us, and boy was it worth the wait...

Dragon Ball Z For Kinect Review (XBox 360)

I want to love the Kinect.  I really, really do.  It’s red eye seems to beg for attention every time I fire up one of my XBox 360s, I have an old school one with an upgraded hard drive when Kinect was an addition and I have the beautiful...

Painkiller: Hell & Damnation Review...

Fans of the first person shooter genre even if they haven’t played them know games like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and, after it failed so badly, even non-FPS gamers (and non-gamers) know Duke Nukem 3D which wasn’t much different from...

Euro Truck Simulator 2 Review (PC)

I definitely know my way around a simulator.  Another member of the GamingShogun.com family used to be known for them but somewhere along the line I slipped into the driver seat, quite literally in most cases, and I now have a nice solid butt...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Review (PC)

I just finished up with Activision and Treyarch’s latest Call of Duty title, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Thanks to some innovation in the game’s design, this sequel takes the series to new heights. Unfortunately, it seems that the...

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Review (PC)

Torn Banner Studios has released their online medieval combat game, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. Players can join one of two factions in each game, the Masonic Order or the Knights of Agatha. Neither is very important, nor is the game’s...

Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E. 5 Gaming Keyboard...

When we looked at the Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E. 7 Gaming Keyboard, the thing that stuck with me was its high price point. It seems that Mad Catz was thinking about this too as they released the little brother to that keyboard, the S.T.R.I.K.E. 5...