Lego Jurassic World is a love letter to fans of the iconic film franchise. The moment Jurassic Park’s theme song started I was instantly back in 1993 and nostalgia wrapped around me like a warm fuzzy blanket. This game was more than a take on a franchise, but rather

If you’ve played board games, then you probably know about the dreaded “roll and move” game where luck determines who the winner is.  While games like Formula D that have added some unique elements to the mechanic, there aren’t many designer games that use it.  Matt Riddle and

Condensing the MOBA experience to the mobile format is no easy undertaking; the genre doesn’t exactly lend itself to short play sessions or the casual “pick-up-and-play” of most mobile games. GAEA Mobile is trying to change that, though, and after spending some time with Ace of Arenas at E3

Lanterns: The Harvest Festival is one of the most purely relaxing games I have played in a long while.  If first time designer Christopher Chung was shooting for “sitting on a small dinghy in the middle of a quiet glassy lake while surrounded by colored glowing paper lanterns”, he really

Steam’s Early Access service is constantly bombarded with roguelike survival games, but The Flame in the Flood from The Molasses Flood gives direction to what is normally an aimless genre. The Flame in the Flood follows a girl and her dog rafting down a Louisiana Bayou-inspired river in post-societal

These days it’s easy for a game to have a zombie, sci-fi, or fantasy theme.  While there is a bigger mix of of themes in the board game community, sometimes you are surprised by a game’s theme that you want to find out more about it.  That’s

Hoth is to Star Wars: Battlefront as Omaha Beach once was to World War 2 shooters. It is the signature battle, known to everyone and often a perfect set piece to show off their dynamic engines and mechanics. I had a chance to demo the new Star Wars: Battlefront’s

After a week of press conferences, new trailers, hands-on time, and a lot of discussion, the Gaming Trend staff has decided upon the winners of our E3 awards for 2015. Each game on this list had something special that helped it stand out above the rest, but also be sure