Smash Mania has arrived! Gamers all over the world are once again choosing their favorite Nintendo characters and using everything from baseball bats to banana peels to just about anything else you can think of, to knock other beloved Nintendo characters off stage and claim victory. A new Smash Bros.

The Gaming Trend crew assemble once again for another episode of the Metatheory podcast. In this episode the team realizes that the Gaming Trend staff is full of scaredy cats… but that isn’t keeping us from playing the likes of The Evil Within and Alien: Isolation, especially during October

The main character in the Dark Souls series has always been the world itself. Whether you’re exploring dark crypts, forgotten kingdoms, or overgrown forests, the unpredictable and terrifying environment is central to the Dark Souls experience. Never has this been more true than with the final chapter of the

For a long time it seemed like Dragon Ball Z would be the anime series with the highest number of console fighting games, but it seems like Naruto is hot on its heels, if it hasn’t caught up already. The Ultimate Ninja Storm series has had several iterations on

You know what’s weird? We live in a world where Nintendo has not only published a Legend of Zelda/Dynasty Warriors hybrid, but has also resurrected Bayonetta, one of the niche-iest action games ever to come out of Japan. Luckily, it was worth it—Bayonetta 2 is one of

I really don’t follow sports except for football. The fact the season is only sixteen games long makes every matchup important. However, the wait between the Super Bowl and the regular season kickoff seems excruciatingly long. The NFL has done a great job to make the combines, draft, training

You are sailing across the seven seas. Salty air whips cross your sails, filling your lungs with the power of the ocean. You are about to head to port and deliver goods that will pay nicely. You will get a payout that will earn you enough money to win the

Alien was released on an unsuspecting audience in 1979 by director Ridley Scott.  The beginning of the movie moves at a glacial pace, setting the stage for the feast of incredible cinematic storytelling that fills the third act.  Everything from the slow descent and landing sequence of the Nostromo to