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682Square Enix announces new manga and art books at New York Comic Con
Yesterday, Square Enix announced that five new manga series would be receiving English translations in Fall of 2025. The Soul Eater: Soul...
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954Disco Heist Laundry Preview — The first taste was free
At Gen Con this year, a few of us at GamingTrend were able to sit down with Mike Gnade from Rock Manor...
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844The Origins unpublished board game extravaganza
In the sheer amount of stuff available to see at a major board game convention like Origins, it’s easy to overlook the...
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838Power Well Origins first look – Puzzle duels!
Let me set the scene. GamingTrend’s Origins interview booth was set up in the back-right corner of the convention. About 5 spaces...
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2.1KGen Con 2024 sees record-breaking attendance numbers, will return in 2025
Gen Con 2024 has ended, but not before seeing more than 71,000 attendees, 540 exhibiting companies, and generating more than $77 million...
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741Great Toy Showdown Preview [PlayX4] — A mashup of genres come together to create simple fun
Recently I had the honor of attending PlayX4 in Gyeonggi, South Korea. While I was there, I met with the developers at...
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1.3KVapor World: Over The Mind preview [PlayX4] — A 2.5D souls-like with excellent atmosphere set in a world of dreams
I recently had the honor of attending PlayX4 in Gyeonggi, South Korea. While I was there, I got to sit down with...
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1.2KWe dive deep into the world of The First Descendent in our first hands-on
It’s hard breaking into the looter-shooter space. There are already some heavy hitters, and some high profile failures that will dissuade most...
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1.4KDune Awakening at Summer Games Fest 2024 — “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water”
When I sat down with the Funcom team at Summer Games Fest 2024 to see Dune Awakening they asked if I’ve “read...
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1.2KTales of the Shire hands-on preview – You provide the potatoes, I’ll make a second breakfast!
I’ve played plenty of cozy style games from Stardew Valley to Sims to Disney Dreamlight. However, nothing could prepare me for the...
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825We battle the Devs in the upcoming Magic: The Gathering – Assassin’s Creed card game
I sat down with the Wizards of the Coast team to check out a very exciting new product they have for Magic...
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947Hello Kitty Island Adventure hands-on preview — Furry and friendly
There’s unexpected, and there’s unexpected. Hello Kitty was not the mascot I expected to be engaging with at Summer Game Fest, but...
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923Dragon Quest III HD 2D Remake hands-on preview — Using a Chimera Wing to return to the distant past
Remaking a classic game is a tricky proposition. When it’s a game with eleven entries spanning over 37 years, it gets even...
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1.4KFlintlock: The Siege of Dawn hands-on preview — Striking flint
Soulsy games are all the rage, eh? It feels like every game that looks neat is one, and most of them revel...
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1.0KSuper Monkey Ball Banana Rumble hands-on preview – Rolling into a new adventure!
I remember playing Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz on the Nintendo Wii back in 2006, then played Step & Roll when the...
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1.4KWe Interview: Executive Game Director Mark Rubin and Creative Director Safy Saada of XDefiant!
XDefiant is finally here, but the team isn’t slowing down. We posted our initial impressions of the pre-season, but Season 1 is...
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1.1KChecking out a 98 inch TV and 55 inch curved monitor at the Samsung booth at Summer Game Fest!
We recently attended Summer Game Fest, and our old friends from Samsung were there. Literally, as Isaac gave us a demo the...
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1.7KHyper Light Breaker hands-on preview — extraction roguelike and real-life achievements
You need to take your wins where you can get them. Over the course of 22 years of playing video games as...
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1.8KMonster Hunter Wilds — a world alive with promise, and a few deadly monsters as well
I don’t know why, but I bounced off Monster Hunter: World. Perhaps it was the obtuse way you had to engage with...
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999Path of Exile II raises the dead — we go hands on with the new Witch class
When your game starts with every character you might pick being hung from the neck in the gallows, and everyone you don’t...
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1.2KI saw Assassin’s Creed Shadows played three ways, and I can’t be more excited about it
We all got to see the incredible gameplay walkthrough for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, but I got to see that same slice of...
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3.6KI saw the first hour of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and we’ve got a lot to be excited about
By now, you’ve probably seen the incredible 20 minutes of opening gameplay for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In it, we are re-introduced...
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2.3KKunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is very strange, and I’m here for it
I wasn’t sure what to make of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess when I saw the trailer. Is this a soulslike game?...
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2.7KZoochosis hands-on preview – The scariest night at the Zoo ever!
I went into my preview for Zoochosis with no previous knowledge of the game past the interesting albeit horrifying art on the...
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1.8KHarmonium hands-on preview – A Sign Language Musical of wonders!
When Harmonium was announced, I got so excited, as did our lead editor David Burdette. So when we found out that the...
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3.3KThe Dragon Prince: Xadia hands-on preview – A fast-paced and hero-based action RPG adventure!
I’ve been a huge fan of The Dragon Prince on Netflix since Season One! The found family elements and interesting world-building were...
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1.2KWe Interview: Yannick Banchereau (Creative Director) and Radu Nedea (Producer) about the Division 2 new season and more!
On our final day at Summer Game Fest, I had the pleasure of interviewing Yannick Banchereau (Creative Director) and Radu Nedea (Producer)...
