The Nintendo Switch is just around the corner, releasing on March 3rd, but what can you expect when the Big N’s new flagship product ships? What do you need on day one? What games are going to be available to pick up with your shiny new system? Not to

Welcome to Gaming Trend’s new gameplay series. Each week, editor Mike Pearce (that’s me) will be teaming up with other members of Gaming Trend. Together we’ll be playing all sorts of games, from the new, to the old, to the strange or the scary; we’re going

Paper City and its seedy underbelly are ready to be explored in Bear With Me Episode 2. Amber and Ted take to the gritty, monochromatic streets as they continue their search for Flint, Amber’s missing brother, and investigate the most recent fire by the mysterious arsonist, the Red Man

For Gaming Trend’s first podcast episode of 2017, a bunch of Gaming Trend’s editors and contributors got together to debate last year’s greatest achievements in video game culture. We discussed everything from virtual reality to mobile, from the high-octane shooters to the quaint puzzle-platformers. The process was

While the Wii U is officially discontinued and will not have any more first-party titles after Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild comes out, the 3DS is still alive and kicking. With a couple of Wii U to 3DS ports and remakes, Nintendo seems content to port another Wii

Dark and engrossing, Beholder takes a realistic look at life in a totalitarian state. Do you perform your job as assigned, look out for your family first and foremost, or undermine the establishment by any means necessary? Though you may try to balance them all, there’s no way to

Written by Christian DeCoster and Rachel “Rei” Berry For Honor is, in my mind, the ultimate elementary school “who’d win in a fight” game.  With the classic mix of Samurai, Knights, and Vikings all joining in brutal, unflinching melee combat, For Honor is a simple concept done very, very

It seems these days that JRPGs are taking cues from western influences and developing into open-world, cinematic sprawls. This isn’t a bad thing necessarily, but it does make the times when the genre returns to form that much memorable. Titles like Eternal Sonata and Gurumin highlight how a modern