About Charles Lynch, Reviews Editor

Charles co-hosts The Gentlemen Radio (podcast on this site) with J. Patrick Ohlde, Jeffrey Stephenson and one other gentlemen. He is a beard and beer enthusiast, enjoys short walks in the mountains and video games. He has a degree in Business Management from the University of Arizona that he is doing absolutely nothing with. He is an actor, voice actor, sometimes animator, rarely a homebrewer and hosts a show on YouTube about beer culture (youtube.com/spentgrains).
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The Gentlemen Radio Episode 46: You Haven’t Seen THAT?!

Welcome to this week’s installment of The Gentlemen Radio, we have returning special guest Susan. Amazon and their amazing television pilots, FX(X), Man of Steel casting rumors and Jeff’s brainchild called “You haven’t seen THAT?” are all covered. Recommendations: Susan   Charles   and Patrick Jeffrey   Josh   and  

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The Gentlemen Radio Episode 44: How To Win Better By Not Raiding That Tomb Unless You Have Backup

  Sometimes you spend of lot of time trying to force something and it just doesn’t work out. Enjoy Gentlemen Jeffrey as Lara Croft. The watch along movie, we still remember to do that occasionally is: Once again we have Gentlemen Todd rejoining us for hijinks and general shenanigans, we never did solve the skateboard sound [...]

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Far Cry 3 (Xbox 360)

Summary [9 out of 10]   Far Cry 3 is the latest installment in the Far Cry franchise and combines elements of the first and second game, in so much as the mechanics of the second and the setting of the first game. This is the second title to come out of Ubisoft Montreal and [...]

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The Gentlemen Radio Episode 43: The Todd Strikes Back

  Todd makes his return, breaking our guest embargo of 2013. What does this mean? We learn that Todd will not help Jeff in his kickstarter to get a tattoo. Jeffrey attempts some controversy and Patrick makes a bold statement about Sex and the City. Charles is doing some hard time. Things heat up when [...]

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PS4 Announcement After Thoughts

On Wednesday, February 20th 2013 Sony had their big announcement of the upcoming Playstation 4. Patrick and I both watched the the livestream so we decided to share some of our thoughts with you. The System   So in a similar vein to the PS3 the PS4 will be something of a PC with a 32bit [...]

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The Gentlemen Radio Episode 38: Strange Days of Future Consoles

Solutions and variables gentlemenites! This week we kick things off about Marvel shifting into Phase 3, which isn’t even their final form! Seriously, let us get a little bit into Phase 2 before tickle our brainholes with the next stage. It is some pretty awesome news with Doc Strange and Ant Man joining the fray. [...]

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The Walking Dead: The Game (Downloaded from Xbox Live)

Summary [10 out of 10]   The Walking Dead: The Game is a point-and-click adventure game from Telltale Games. It draws more so from the comics as source material than the television show. This should not dissuade you as this story is more engaging and better executed than the show thus far and perhaps maybe [...]

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The Gentlemen Radio Episode 37: Our Cruisers Can’t Repel Lens Flare of That Magnitude!

Solutions and generalizations gentlemenites, this week The Gentlemen tackle the news that J.J. Abrams will be helming the newest Star Wars installment. Mostly we feel it’s a good thing, but it might be fair to say we reserve our judgment… ha ha… yeah no, not on this podcast. Next we move unto some discussion about [...]

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The Gentlemen Radio Episode 36: SHIELD Us From The King, The Nerds Know Not What They Do

Welcome Gentlemenites™ to this week’s The Gentlemen Radio™. We hope you enjoy your Ovaltine™ and remember Gentleman Jeffrey always pretends he is a T-Rex. On this episode we blindly speculate on the upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. show, and speculate even more so on the future of the MMU( Marvel Movie Universe), sidebar: Gentleman Charles’ prefers MCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe. [...]

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (Xbox 360)

Summary [8.5 out of 10] Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is the second installment in the CoD: Black Ops brand by the fine folks at Treyarch (SPIDER-MAN 2 ANYONE?! Such a great game). Everything you want in a Call of Duty game is here, the Black Ops branch seems to operate at a bit [...]

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The Room (iPad 2 iOS 6.0.1)

Summary [5 out of 5] The Room is the first foray into the iOS gaming library from the folks at Fireproof Games, some Criterion alumni who banded together and released this short masterpiece, which has won Game of the Year from the App Store. The Room is a puzzle solving game with an interesting ambiguous narrative. [...]

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Assassin’s Creed III (Xbox 360 Review)

No traditions are remembered, all glitches are permitted.   Summary [7 out of 10] Assassin’s Creed III is the indirect follow up to Assassin’s Creed II with two stop gap titles between, those being Brotherhood and Revelations. The story got a bit convoluted with those two titles, some new mechanics were introduced for better or [...]

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Pond Panic (iOS Review)

Summary [4.5 out of 5] Note: We decided to use a ½ scale for mobile gaming since we they are a bit different in terms of depth than a console or PC title. Pond Panic is the first entry into the game catalog of Fabling Game Studios. The game hits all the right notes for [...]

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Xbox 360 Review)

Summary [9.5 out of 10] I’m not saying that the Unknown Enemy is Aliens, but it’s Aliens. XCOM: Enemy Unknown is not a remake, but a reboot of a beloved game from 1994 called UFO: Enemy Unknown aka X-COM: UFO Defense aka X-COM: Enemy Unknown. After a string of follow-ups culminating with 2001’s X-COM: Enforcer, [...]

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Borderlands 2 (Xbox 360 Review)

Summary [9 out of 10] Borderlands 2 is Gearbox’s follow up to the awesomesauce that was 2009’s Game of the Year and it does not disappoint. The main characters from the first game return as NPCs to interact with and help you out on your journey. This one really starts off with a bang (I [...]

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