Ron Burke

The Skylanders franchise has captured not one but two markets. Combining the in-game action with tangible toy creatures, the team at Toys for Bob have created a sensation. Selling over $500 million dollars worth of toys, figures, and accessories – a milestone they reached faster than any kid-focused gaming property, ever.

A little over a month ago you might have checked out our hands-on preview of The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II and wondered how the final product panned out. Now a few days past release, we get a chance to dive back into the world of Abraham Van Helsing

eBay was breached, Heartbleed is running rampant, Sony’s passwords were compromised, DDoS assaults are exceeding 100s of Gigabits of traffic per second, and upwards of 95% of the Internet is spam and attack traffic. To say that we’ve lost control of the power of the Internet is a

We sat down with Karl Roelofs, Design Director at Zojoi to talk about their revival of the classic NES title, Shadowgate.  Coming to PC, Mac, iOS, and Android, this reimaging of the original brings with it all new content and a stunning uplift in graphical quality.  They’ve also brought

Wolfenstein 3D is, for old timers like me, one of the first 3D games we had ever played. It helped create the first person shooter genre, and it pioneered run-and-gun gameplay, hidden rooms, weapon progression, and many more staple features that we see in modern shooters over 22 years later.

Readers of Gaming Trend are pretty well aware that I’m a sucker for game artwork – it’s why I buy Collector’s Editions of games. It’s not the awesome figures (though those are pretty cool), or even the in-game goodies – it’s the peek behind the curtain at