Previews
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2.6KDescending into nostalgia: Overload preview
A six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) shooter named Descent came out in 1995. Parallax Software, the developer, went on to create the sequel, Descent II...
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2.1KHere’s all the Destiny: Rise of Iron content that we can show you before September 20th
If you're like us here at Gaming Trend, you're too excited for Destiny's upcoming expansion, Rise of Iron, to wait for it...
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1.9KCheck out Destiny: Rise of Iron’s first story mission
Gaming Trend had the opportunity to play Destiny: Rise of Iron, and today we're sharing our experience with the first story mission...
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2.0KPAX West 2016: Steep hands-on
Backcountry skiing and snowboarding is about avoiding the crowds and finding the freshest, most untouched slope. But it isn’t just about finding...
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2.3KPAX West 2016: Gears of War 4 Horde 3.0 hands-on
Gears of War 4 had been making me nervous. Knowing that Epic Games is no longer involved in the development of an...
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2.2KPAX West 2016: South Park: The Fractured But Whole
South Park excels at making fun of things. People, ideas, companies, religions, it doesn’t matter, everything and everyone is fair game to...
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3.7KWelcome to the 80’s personified: Zombies in Spaceland hands-on preview
It wouldn’t be a new Call of Duty game without the fantastic addition of zombies. This newest iteration, entitled Zombies in Spaceland,...
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1.9KHands-on with Call of Duty Modern Warfare Remastered’s multiplayer
Raven Studios has a long and tenured history of creating incredible games. They’ve also been involved with the Call of Duty franchise...
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2.9KCall of Duty in Space – Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare preview
I hear it from my friends every year. “Another November, another Call of Duty” -- clearly fans are feeling a bit of...
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3.6KPAX West 2016: Final Fantasy XV hands-on
It’s unlikely that there are many games more highly anticipated than Final Fantasy XV. During PAX West, I had the opportunity to...
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3.6KKicking 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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2.8KFirst 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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4.3KPaper 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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2.1KMonster 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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2.2KBeautiful 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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7.6KI 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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3.2KTaking 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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3.2KCan’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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3.4KThe 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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2.7KTeam-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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2.8KCharacter 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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2.0KSave 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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9.0KGuns, 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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2.6KBringing 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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2.0KQuantum 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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2.4KTom 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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4.5KPlants 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...
