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

I enjoy the occasional glass of wine. I don’t know much about it though and truth be told I’m probably more of a beer drinker. Sometimes I’ll like one wine more than another, but most of the time I have basically the same reaction: “Pretty good!” Regardless

Battleborn represents a huge step forward for 2K Games. A co-op, character-based shooter with elements drawn from many genres, mediums and ideas, there’s a lot of cogs moving at the same time. When Gearbox Software brings them together, though, the result is simply one of the best class-based shooter

Now that E3’s over and we’re all winding down, a few of us got together to discuss each conference, from Bethesda to the PC Gaming Show. Kenneth and Travis are joined by Josh Devlin and Justin Pauls as they both make their GT Reboot debuts. We talk Bethesda’