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955.4KKutnà Hora: The City of Silver review — Silver is the new brass
I love Brass: Birmingham. The high interactivity combined with how well it rewards tweezing out every last mote of efficiency is crazy...
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753.1KGodsforge Review — A Fast Paced Wizard Fight!
In the magical setting of Godsforge, Etherium (not the cryptocurrency) was plentiful, and the land was at peace. Children created charms with...
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7511.4KMagic: The Gathering Starter Kit 2023 review — We all start somewhere
If you’ve always wanted to try Magic: The Gathering, but don’t know where to start, Wizards of the Coast has a product...
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702.7KWaffle Time review — A delightfully light breakfast
Waffle Time is a light drafting game where each player is trying to score the most points by putting toppings on a...
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303.8KDungeons & Dragons: Trials of Tempus review — The god of unmet potential
Credit where it's due, Trials of Tempus is certainly an ambitious title. For his debut, lead designer Thor Knai tossed Dungeons &...
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806.6KPrince of Persia: The Lost Crown review — Heir to Elegance
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown hails from a long lineage of elegance. Although the details of its form shifts among the...
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1005.1KUnmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze review— I’m amazed
Ever since I bought my first Unmatched set back when Battle of Legends dropped, I've been screaming from the rooftops about how...
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754.8KStationfall review — Despite all my rage, I’m a telepathic rat in a cage
Many board games are designed from the floor up to ape other media and end up being mediocre at best. Nemesis is...
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902.2KGunnar Optiks COD UAV glasses review — Seeing in sepia
I’m a huge Call of Duty fan who is bound to his glasses. I don’t like contacts; always worried I might poke...
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1.3KInterview with Craig Campbell of Nerdburger games, designer of Capers, Good Strong Hands, and others on small press distribution and the state of the industry
Nerdburger Games has been lauded many times for its achievements in design, covering adventure and parody, group, GM-less, and solo, along with...
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2.6KM. Allen Hall, creator of Godspark and Sprinkles is missing, on experimental design and the state of the TTRPG industry
Continuing my series of interviews with tabletop designers, I move from the therapeutic model of design to M. Allen Hall, a more...
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2.7K90Hohem MIC-01 Wireless Lavalier System review — Impossibly good audio capture
I’ve looked at a number of audio capture devices, especially wireless ones, and so many miss the very mark they set for...
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1.7KGunnar has awesome new looks for 2024, and we’ve got the first set!
Gunnar has been making awesome eye strain-reducing glasses for quite some time now, and we’ve certainly covered a lot of their technology...
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908.1KKinfire Delve: Vainglory’s Grotto review — A roguelike card game for two
Kinfire Delve: Vainglory’s Grotto is the first in a series of dungeon delving card games from Incredible Dream Studios. It is set...
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1.7KThe unsung hero of Modern Warfare III — Sledgehammer and co. are nailing live service
The moment Call of Duty truly became a live service game was during Modern Warfare 2019. We saw the battle pass model...
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4.8KLuke Crane, creator of Burning Wheel and Mouse Guard, on RPG design and the state of the industry
Continuing my series of interviews with RPG designers, I spoke with Luke Crane, the mind behind Burning Wheel, Burning Empires, Burning Sands,...
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1.8KMolly House PAXU Preview — My excitement won’t be mollified
To be perfectly honest, I don't know how best to classify Molly House, Wherlegig’s latest cardboard masterpiece. I feel like I'm describing...
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2.3KShaping the Clay — Previews from PAX Unplugged’s Unpublished Hall
Some ideas can look good on paper or in an echo chamber and need a stranger’s perspective. For board games, fresh perspectives...
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1.8KWe Interview: Zach Sharpe, discussing Stern Pinball and their upcoming Jaws machine!
At Gamingtrend, we love all sorts of games. That includes video games, table top games, and in today's case: Pinball Machines! Editor...
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656.2KPokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2: The Indigo Disk review — The next semester of Pokéductation
Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet tried to reinvent the series, and succeeded in some ways with its open world structure, but largely...
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6.2KGamingTrend’s 2024 most anticipated video game list!
We do our best to keep up with all the video games that are coming every year. We really do. However, by...
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602.8KGangs of Sherwood review — Gang wars
To be completely honest, I’m rooting for Gangs of Sherwood. This is a compact, fun, well-paced experience that is enjoyable alone or...
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1.7KA once illuminating beacon of the video game industry fades to black — So long, E3.
The beauty of being young and relatively inexperienced in life is the gentle tug of awe and inspiration that one feels when...
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853.8KThe Finals review — The ultimate FPS gameshow
I grew up on first-person shooter games, but recently I was in a bit of a slump. Nothing appealed to my tastes...
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2.8KThe GamingTrend staff’s “Game Of The Year” Top 3 list
As this year has just been too massive for one GOTY list (you can view our Trendsetter Awards here), we went to...
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2.1KRPGs at PAX Unplugged — All hail the indie scene
PAX Unplugged 2023 was a bounty of knowledge, new faces, and great games. I spoke to someone at nearly every RPG booth,...
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2.4KGamingTrend’s 2023 “Trendsetter” Awards!
Every year there are a ton of games that deserve recognition. This year might be the most packed ever. 2023 brought games...
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9513.2KPrismXR Puppis S1 Wireless VR Extender review — Making PCVR possible for Meta Quest 2 and 3
Whether you have a Quest 2, a shiny new Quest 3, or a HTC Vive with the wireless addon, the power of...
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9531.0KPrismXR Carina W1 Power Belt — Fixing VR battery life permanently
The Meta Quest 2 has a problem – the VR headset was ahead of its time in terms of being entirely untethered...
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751.8KThe Invincible review – “Not everything everywhere is for us…”
What lies beyond our solar system has been one of the greatest mysteries of our time. Our fascination with the ‘final frontier’...
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1.5KStephen Dewey, creator of Ten Candles, on Indie production and the state of the industry
Kicking off my first in a series of interviews with RPG designers, Stephen Dewey and I discussed the culture and practicalities of...
