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6.8KGaming Trend’s Best of 2013 — Special Categories/Game of the Year
It’s that time again, where we hunker down and argue over our favorite gaming experiences of 2013. There was no shortage of...
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3.1KGaming Trend’s Best of 2013 — Platform/Technical
It’s that time again, where we hunker down and argue over our favorite gaming experiences of 2013. There was no shortage of...
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806.1KValdis Story hurts so good
Bringing classic gameplay back to life is a double-edged sword. The “Metroidvania” platformer enjoyed its heyday some 15-20 years ago when Super...
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2.4KGaming Trend Podcast 01//15//2014 — Saying “Hello” To Demelo
This week on the Gaming Trend Podcast, Dave and Atlas are visited by the gravelly, manly voice of Jeffrey Demelo! Dave, Atlas,...
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705.1KDriven around the bend – Forza Motorsport 5
Despite a long history of gradual improvements, the racing genre doesn't always reflect the real-world track life: there is one winner, and...
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3.3KGaming Trend’s Best of 2013 — Genre
It’s that time again, where we hunker down and argue over our favorite gaming experiences of 2013. There was no shortage of...
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905.7KValhalla trail — The Banner Saga review
Every action has a consequence. In order to survive, we do what it takes -- even if that survival comes at a...
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803.7KMy lightning, my prayer — Continue?9876543210 review
What is the meaning of life? Or death, for that matter? It’s the ultimate philosophical cliche. We strive for greatness -- or...
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8.1KCrazy Eights (plus one): Nine questions with Mike Selinker about HeroQuest 25th Anniversary Edition
While several developers have tried to create projects that commemorate or honor games from the past, they often have found themselves working...
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1.9K“Create something that will live forever” – Interview with Dave Cox, Lead Producer for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
You’d be hard-pressed to find a videogame producer more devoted to the craft than Dave Cox. Over the past two decades, he’s...
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2.9KGaming Trend Podcast 01//08//2014–Clean Machines
Welcome back to the Gaming Trend Podcast! It's been a while since we recorded our last podcast, but luckily, not too much...
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855.6KDebate team deathmatch – Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc takes great pride in slowly unravelling its twisted, sadistic narrative. You play as Makoto Naegi, a high school...
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452.7KFree-to-play with a price
Somewhere in the course of history, we all decided that games needed to be shorter. Modern games tend to slot somewhere between...
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754.2K“Abandon Your Sense and Enjoy the Ride” – Lococycle
Twisted Pixel has earned something of a reputation for giving us some of the most bizarre games ever made. Lococycle, their most...
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754.3KThe Price of Freedom – ACIV Freedom Cry Review
In Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, there is only a pair of references to Adéwalé’s skin color and how it affects his...
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654.4KSonic & All Stars Racing Transformed Review
Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed (hereafter Sonic Transformed) is Sega's most recent foray into the world of iOS gaming, providing some...
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2.2KHands-on with Dungeon of the Endless Steam Early Access
What do you get when you cross a roguelike dungeon crawler with a tower defense game? You get the Steam Early Access...
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3.7KMost anticipated video games of Q1 2014
The next-gen battle has just begun, but there are a lot of fantastic games coming our way in the first quarter of...
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1.8KA month with Xbox One – what’s working, and what’s not
We've spent a little over a month with the Xbox One and its launch titles. We've tabulated what we love about the...
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803.5KHe ain’t heavy – Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
Born to PC and WiiWare , Press Play’s character Max of Max and the Magic Marker was a well-received 2010 Windows Phone...
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703.8KGo with it — flOw
The original release of flOw was a simplistic experiment that showed that the PS3 had support for the artsy and indie community....
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3.5KFive games to tide you over until Mass Effect 4
There are people out there playing Mass Effect 4 (tentative title) right now, but it's not you or me. Employees at Bioware,...
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154.1KFighter Within? We’d be better Without.
In the seventh console generation we saw an increased focus on motion controls, but the hardware just wasn’t capable of the 1:1...
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804.9KWe take to the skies with World of Warplanes
There are 75 million people registered in World of Tanks, with 1.1 million peak concurrent players. Let that number sink in -...
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853.3KIn space no one hears you blow up — Star Trek Attack Wing Review
For a while, the Star Trek universe felt like it had gone a bit stale with the end of Enterprise. That changed...
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2.4KAll That Remains of The Walking Dead is a familiar dread
Telltale’s The Walking Dead surprised everyone in 2012 with a story that was as engaging as it was harrowing. The episodic adventure...
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604.0KThe Ryse and fall of the Roman Empire
Ryse: Son of Rome was originally announced in 2010 as Codename: Kingdoms, and was slated to be a Kinect game for the...
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2.0KCrazy Eights: Eight questions with D. Brad Talton of Level 99 Games
If you have seen my review of BattleCON: Devastation of Indines, then you know that I thought highly of it. It's a...
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2.3KGaming Trend Podcast 12//19//13 — A distinguished discussion of this, the Year of Luigi
Good morrow, everyone. You have stumbled upon a gentlemanly discussion of the year that was. The year that brought us new interactive...
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705.2KThink small — Tiny Brains
Getting together and playing video games with your friends is tough these days. Games are getting packed with more and more online...
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852.4KTaking the long road — Via Appia Review
They say that Rome wasn’t built in a day. I have a feeling that neither were their roads. With Rome being a...
