If you missed the Pokémon battle-ready Salazzle giveaway at GameStop and GAME stores last month, worry not! Gaming Trend is giving away twelve codes, so you can bring home your very own special event poison-fire lizard. This Salazzle is level 50, and wears a Focus Slash, a one-time use item

Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver may be seventeen years old in the US, but they have strong nostalgia among many old school players, and are still considered to be some of the best games in the Pokémon franchise. Building off the success of their predecessors, Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue,

Minecraft is one step closer to complete world domination. One day, we may even see the procedural block-destroying/block-building game on the Atari 2600! Okay, maybe not that far back, but it has come to the New Nintendo 3DS (unfortunately, owners of original 3DS models are unable to play this

Castlevania and Metroid created the subgenre mashup Metroidvania, but it was the latter that captivated my young gamer mind more than any other. It was a feast as a new Metroid game came year after year. The shift to 3D in Metroid Prime spelled renewal, taking the familiar world of

You know you’re playing a game that’s on the high end of the idealism vs. cynicism scale when you literally use friendship to dispel evil. Friendship also fuels your strongest attacks and gets you started on your journey. Almost anything can be done through the power of friendship

I embarked on an unexpectedly charming adventure, crossing continents alongside characters such as Captain Jack Harkness, Toon Link and Zelda, and the X-Men as I tried to stop the scourge of Miitopia, a face-stealing villain so horrifying that few dare speak his name… the evil Dark Lord Monty Burns. This

Years ago, Shigeru Miyamoto had an interview with 4Gamer about the release of Pikmin 3. During that 2013 interview, he talked about prototype tests for Pikmin on the DS and 3DS. “The truth is we were doing prototype tests of Pikmin for the DS and 3DS but it turned into

Nintendo could have easily pulled the 3D hardware out of the New 3DS XL, slapped a fresh coat of paint on it, and released it as a “new 2DS” version. But this is Nintendo — a company that pioneered having a Seal of Quality on their games. Instead of the usual