I could save everyone the trouble of reading the rest of the review and let you know that Victory Point’s Hundred Days 20 is a good game. But does that really tell you anything? After all, BoardGameGeek’s library includes nearly 300 Napoleonic games that have at least 25

As a rule, I’m suspicious of tabletop game reviews. I get that we want to proselytize for our hobby, but the cost is a hyperbolic review cycle that tells gamers that there are dozens, even hundreds of “must-play” titles releasing all the time, even as the number of hours

It’s been four years since Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure shook up the industry with it’s trailblazing toy-based gameplay, enticing a new generation of young gamers and inspiring everyone from Disney, Lego, and even Nintendo into getting in on the action. Unlike it’s upstart competitors, however, Skylanders has

It’s nearly three o’clock in the morning, and the party next door is in full swing. Music is blaring, the punch bowl is bottomless, and costumed hooligans are milling about in the front yard. You can barely contain your anger as you don a white mask and stuff

In concept, Runbow seems like a fun idea for a video game. Nine-player local multiplayer always looks great when you’re watching a group of game journalists play on a livestream. But in the real world, getting together nine friends–even three or four–is a difficult task. So that

Until Dawn creates a delicate balance between decisions and ramifications, where the slightest wrong move has the power to effect the lives and well-being of more than eight people.  It also forces players to witness some of the most horrific, macabre, and gory death scenes we’ve ever seen in

Blues and Bullets is a game having an identity crisis.  Sometimes, it is an adventure game, based around exploration and investigation. Other times, it’s an on-rails shooter.  Half of the time it is telling a gritty, hard-boiled noir drama. The other half, a story about a ritualistic occult.  And

Supermassive’s Until Dawn has been pretty divisive among the Gaming Trend staff, so we thought we’d get a group together to chat about the interactive slasher movie. In this spoiler-heavy show, reviewer Eric Van Allen is joined by Kenneth Shepard and Blake Hester to talk about the characters