It’s that time of year again, when the gaming faithful make their pilgrimage out to the hills of sunny Los Angeles to be berated with announcements and demos at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. It’s E3 2015 time!
The staff of Gaming Trend will be setting up HQ just
Booting up Crazy Machines 2, the initial setup had me install a pre-2010 version of DirectX in order to run the game. That initial moment of virtual time travel was a sign of things to come, as the Anniversary DLC pack for Crazy Machines 2 is in every way faithful
I’ve dumped an inordinate amount of time into MOBAs. Starting with League of Legends, I accumulated somewhere in the ballpark of four-to-five-thousand games played, and with Dota 2 I’m starting to edge closer and closer to that “2000 hours played” mark.
There’s something about them that grips
The finale of the Witcher trilogy has come and gone. The culmination of years of novels and games, weaving character and plot threads like a spiderweb, yet all approaching their climax in a single moment. To say that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a gargantuan undertaking might be an
I remember when I was on the outside looking in on the whole amiibo craze. It was insane, right? Lines around the block, people fiendishly hunting figures of their favorite Nintendo characters that turned into killer AI programs when scanned on a Wii U tablet. I held no burning passion
There’s a sweet science to competitive fighting games. Not unlike real-life boxing, there’s a lot of careful thought and tactics underneath the uppercuts and jabs. The cream of the crop master this and make even the lowliest of hopeful combatants, like myself, feel they can keep improving and
Chroma Squad evokes a lot of the same responses that many children of the 90s have to Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. The clear inspiration for the game, Power Rangers was a Saturday morning cheese-fest that didn’t create overly complex plot lines or inspire discussion over controversial topics. There was
E-sports has grown exponentially over the past few years. It used to be a small phenomenon, and then one only contained in the PC-bang-obsessed land of South Korea, but now competitive gaming permeates gaming culture. That movement is pretty much spearheaded by the advent of MOBA games: five-on-five games where
