The Skylanders franchise has captured not one but two markets. Combining the in-game action with tangible toy creatures, the team at Toys for Bob have created a sensation. Selling over $500 million dollars worth of toys, figures, and accessories – a milestone they reached faster than any kid-focused gaming property, ever.

Creating quality RPGs must be a difficult task.  Creating a unique story deviating from the young hero with a chip on his shoulder seems to be impossible.  However, creating too strange of a story can cause the RPG to not resonate with players, making it a difficult sell as well.

Sony wraps up the day’s events with their press brief at 6 PM PDT. We’ve got you covered with the livestream and once again some rifftrax-style commentary from the editorial staff!

Join us at 3:00 PM PDT for Ubisoft’s E3 2014 livestream, with added flavor by the Gaming Trend editorial staff via liveblog.

Join us at 12:00 PM PDT for EA’s E3 2014 media brief. In addition to the following livestream, our editorial staff will be liveblogging direct from the event.

Join us at 9:30 AM PDT for liveblogging direct from the event as Gaming Trend’s editorial staff gives you the play by play from Microsoft’s X-Box: Game On E3 2014 Media brief.

Tomodachi Life is difficult to encapsulate without actually playing it. It’s not really a game. Like Nintendo’s other life sim Animal Crossing, Tomodachi Life is a game you pop into every now and then, interact with for a few minutes, then put down until tomorrow. But it’s

The Hitman games have been headed in a logical direction over the past few years. A simple stealth-em-up formula that has been, for the most part, working. Then a game like Hitman GO comes out and changes the playing field entirely. It was a risky swing, but Hitman GO knocks