Previews
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3.5KKicking off the rust – Destiny: Rise of Iron preview
September marks the start of the third year for Bungie's popular shared-world shooter, Destiny, and the upcoming expansion, Rise of Iron, will serve as...
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2.7KFirst impressions of Vikings—Wolves of Midgard
Vikings are badass. Full of giants, gods, elves, and dwarves, their mythology is too. These things are a natural foundation for video...
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4.1KPaper Diablo – Hands-on Book of Demons Preview
I think the meeting with the Thing Trunk team went a little like this: “Hey, what was awesome about the original Diablo?”...
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2.0KMonster among men: A preview of the chilling Vampyr
You need to feed. That's how the demo of Vampyr started, in our time at E3. Then again, that might be a...
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2.1KBeautiful Brutality: Absolver preview
I love martial arts. I love movies about martial arts. I love the philosophy behind martial arts. And as a gamer, I...
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7.3KI got drunk and stole a boat in Rare’s Sea of Thieves – preview
Sea of Thieves fulfills a fantasy I’ve had for a long time. As a pirate, Sea of Thieves gives the player the...
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Bringing a gun to a spaceship fight: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare preview
There are two ways I’ve come to look at Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. One is just as a first person shooter...
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3.0KTaking crazy pills: We Happy Few preview
“Happy people have no history.” – Leo Tolstoy This chilling quote opens the We Happy Few demo and immediately sets the tone...
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3.0KCan’t read my Gwent face: Hands-on with Gwent: The Witcher Card Game
Gwent is bigger than it has any reason to be. It was that way in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, where a...
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3.2KThe platforming revival you’ve been waiting for: Yooka-Laylee preview
Since 2000, I’ve been anxiously awaiting another Banjo-Kazooie platformer. As a series that helped define my early gaming years, Rare’s pair of...
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1.5KWatch Dogs 2 preview
Hacking is a dangerous business. I recently learned this firsthand during my time with Watch Dogs 2, when I murdered an innocent...
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2.6KTeam-based precision in an exciting open world: Ghost Recon Wildlands preview
Ghost Recon: Wildlands feels like a liberating evolution of the Tom Clancy series’ mission-based structure. It retains familiar themes of the series...
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2.6KCharacter creation is king – Skylanders: Imaginators preview
The original creators of the Toys-to-life genre, Toys for Bob, are back in the saddle for the newest iteration of the Skylanders...
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1.8KSave the robots: Hands-on impressions of Shiny
With violence being prevalent throughout so many art forms today, developer Garage227 wants to do its best to counteract that with their...
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8.1KGuns, fists and Thralls — hands-on with Battleborn’s Incursion game mode
One of the most common things I’ve heard about Battleborn since its announcement was that it was a “first-person MOBA.” Gearbox Software,...
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2.4KBringing isometric platformers back – Lumo preview
Gareth Noyce has been making big budget games in the UK for over a decade, and has a reputation with gamers as...
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1.9KQuantum Breakthrough? Hands-on with Remedy’s Quantum Break
At a recent event in San Francisco, I went hands-on with Remedy's upcoming time-bending shooter/puzzler, Quantum Break. After a three year wait...
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2.3KTom Clancy’s The Division – Hands-on preview
Hundreds of billions of dollars change hands on the day after Thanksgiving. In a bid to grab the latest tech, clothes for...
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4.2KPlants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 – Get to know the new classes
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 introduces six new characters classes (three plant classes, and three zombie classes). The Imp, Super Brainz,...
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Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 – Justin Wiebe Interview
Popcap Games gave us a sneak peek at Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, and we had the opportunity to chat with...
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Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 – preview
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare was arguably the silliest game of 2014. The combat was over-the-top, the characters were hilarious, and the...
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3.0KRail Gun Kickstarter Preview
From the SuperScope on the NES to the Sniper Scope rifle on the original Xbox and PS2, we've flirted with the idea...
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2.5K“Dying Light: The Following,” electric buggies, and the undead – An interview with Techland’s Maciej Binkowski
Dying Light was one of the biggest surprises of 2015, and Gaming Trend praised it for its excellent parkour and melee combat mechanics...
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8.5KMain status — Battleborn preview
While much of Gearbox’s marketing of Battleborn has gone into showcasing the shooter's expansive roster of distinct playable characters, in the several...
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2.8K“Never tell me the odds” — hands-on with the Star Wars Battlefront beta
Defeat was imminent. Despite my team’s best efforts, Imperial troops had continued to push forward. The snowy battlefields of Hoth had been...
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Hands-on with WWE 2K16’s MyCareer mode
WWE 2K15 had a lot of issues. The game did not die based on one failure, but a host of failures coming...
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4.2KThe Fast and the Furry-ous: Taking a ride with Skylanders Superchargers
It’s been four years since Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure shook up the industry with it’s trailblazing toy-based gameplay, enticing a new generation of...
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3.7KPresentation and nostalgia rule in WWE 2K16 — WWE 2K16 preview
The aura of being in the shoes of a Superstar is something many WWE fans dream of throughout their many hours of...
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2.0KKing’s Quest champions the triumphant return of adventure gaming
There are times in your life when you start a project and in your heart of hearts you know what you are...
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2.3KMy axe is bigger than yours – an early look at Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide
In the midst of towering booths, colorful lighting and thunderous sounds, you can often find smaller, niche game makers scurrying about the...
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3.3KSword Coast Legends makes being a DM simple and fun
At E3 you take a lot of appointments. In fact, across three days we ended up taking nearly 70 of them between...
