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803.6KMore cheese, please! — Pizza Titan Ultra review
Considering I reviewed Sushi Striker: Way of Sushido earlier this year, I think it’s safe to say that I’m pretty familiar with...
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955.7KDressed to the 9s — Toast pint glass cuff
If you open up my cabinet expecting flimsy water glasses, you’ll be sorely disappointed. It’s not that I drink an abundance of...
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303.7KMission failed, we’ll get ’em next time — Morphies Law review
Morphies Law is a game that fostered quite a bit of buzz when it was announced last Fall, a sentiment that steadily...
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3.7KAirConsole – impromptu party in your pocket
I’d forgive you if you’ve not yet heard of AirConsole, as it’s not exactly a traditional console. In fact, there’s not actually...
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2.4KThe man behind the Lucha mask — We interview Drinkbox Studios co-founder Graham Smith
After the success of Guacamelee, it was only a matter of time before we returned to Pueblucho for another round. With the...
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553.4KTrapped in a Cage —The King’s Bird review
The ostensibly ancient lineage of the platformer genre can be traced as far back as the late ‘70s. Since its inception, it...
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1.8KMega Man Retrospective Part 4 — New and Improved Doctor, New and Improved Buster
By 1990, the formula of Mega Man had been ingrained into gaming history. With this pattern, the latter half of the NES...
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859.5KLoosely organized crime — Yakuza Kiwami 2 review
The Yakuza series for me has always been one that quietly existed in the background. They kept making more games for the...
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3.4KCrazy Eights: Ted Alspach on One Night Ultimate Super Villains
Some people really enjoy Werewolf for the social deduction aspect of the game. However, it could drag on for far too long...
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10.6K80How to feed your dragon — Little Dragon’s Café review
This is a story about a café, a boy, a girl, and their baby dragon. It's not the best story ever told,...
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704.6KMake no bones about it — Russian Subway Dogs review
Russian Subway Dogs is a bizarre game. Based on the real-world phenomenon of stray dogs mucking around in Russian subways, Spooky Squid...
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46.9KThe first of a trillion stars — Star Control: Origins chapter 1 preview
Space is a wonderful place. Among the trillions of stars beyond our reach, we could be missing out on contact with millions...
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806.7KPower to the pollo — Guacamelee 2 review
With the original Guacamelee, developer Drinkbox Studios put a unique spin on a well-established genre by adding wrestling moves to the Metroidvania...
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2.4KCrazy Eights: Tim Criswell on Nexus
These days games seem to be repetitive, whether from theme or mechanics. Sometimes a designer will tweak a mechanic to make it...
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2.6KWe Interview Jonathan Dumont, Creative Director for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
I sat down with Jonathan Dumont, Creative Director for Ubisoft Québec talk with him about the improvements in the upcoming title, Assassin’s Creed...
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4.3KMedusa, Monsters, and Mercenaries — an Assassin’s Creed Odyssey preview
While talking with Jonathan Dumont, Creative Director of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, he casually mentions that this newest title will be “easily” over...
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803.9KFantastic Mr. Nymn — Tanglewood review
A common thread within the current indie scene is the bid for nostalgia. From Shovel Knight to Axiom Verge, many developers attempt...
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1.9KWe talk to Ubisoft Producer Kévin Racape about Transference
During our run up to gamescom, I got to sit down with Ubisoft Montréal's Kévin Racape, Producer for the upcoming mind-bending game, Transference. Playable in...
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3.1KTechnological torture chamber — Hands-on Transference preview
Transference does something special -- it connects the observer with the protagonist and his family, and then uses that connection to draw...
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2.2KNew Hereford Base and fresh operators — Rainbow Six Siege Grim Sky preview
Rainbow Six Siege is a fantastic comeback story. The game came out on December 1st of 2015 and admittedly, it didn’t exactly...
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3.1K70Form a path, not a line — Tetra’s Escape review
Tetris, known for its block-falling, line-clearing antics, has never been associated with anything outside of its strictly puzzle focused gameplay. Now, imagine...
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904.9KSurvival in the zone–Mutant: Year Zero review
As the apocalypse looms ever larger in America’s collective subconscious, it’s fitting that such a high quality RPG has come about to...
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2.8KYou’re invited to Gaming Trend’s Electronauts coast-to-coast VR DJ livestream party
Come party with Gaming Trend as we throw a VR DJ livestream party! Join our livestream tonight, August 17th at 7:30PM, and...
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2.5KMega Man Retrospective Part 3 — Sliding into something more comfortable
Over time, Mega Man 2 has been proven to be the most influential Mega Man game of all time. That doesn’t mean...
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854.4KThe final four — The Walking Dead: The Final Season Episode 1 review
In looking at the past six years of Telltale Games, there hasn’t been anything as moving as its initial season of The...
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1.9KExploring the Three Kingdoms — A Total War: Three Kingdoms interview with Al Bickham and Pawel Wojs
The next game in the Total War series is coming out in Spring 2019, so I got a chance to sit down...
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1.8KTake charge and unify the people — Total War: Three Kingdoms preview
The Total War series has provided hours upon hours of intense, strategic gaming over the years. These games have covered a variety...
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1.6KTelltale’s Batman — Better Than You Think
This is the first of four in Gaming Trend's new column "Better Than You Think." This is where we take aspects of...
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7511.3KA day in the afterlife — Graveyard Keeper review
While there are plenty of management sims that let you chill out while running a farm or a shop, Graveyard Keeper offers...
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704.0KThe original splat-toons — De Blob Switch review
Long before Splatoon was a Nintendo success, a little developer called Blue Tongue Entertainment released the sleeper hit De Blob on the...
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5.8K85Praise the salt — Salt and Sanctuary review
In a day and age where Dark Souls’ inspiration is far-reaching, it’s not hard to find clones that fail to impress in...
