Summer Game Fest
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896Hello 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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851Dragon 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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992Super 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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1.2KWe 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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1.0KChecking 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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1.6KHyper 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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1.6KMonster 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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895Path 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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1.1KI 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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3.5KI 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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2.1KKunitsu-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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2.5KZoochosis 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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3.1KThe 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)...
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1.1KMarvel Rivals hands-on preview – Heroes rise to the occasion!
When Marvel Rivals was announced, I think everyone knew this game would be a big deal. With an IP as large as...
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1.4KNew World: Aeternum hands-on preview — Finding new ports
Starting an MMO is not for the faint of heart. You have to devote massive amounts of time to them. That, along...
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1.7KREPLACED hands-on preview — Promising post-apocalyptic pixels
REPLACED has been on my radar since the first trailer. It’s got a styling to it that speaks to me. Every year...
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1.1KWe Interview: Brooke Davies (Associate Narrative Director) discussing Assassin’s Creed Shadows and the story to be told!
It seems like every single Assassin’s Creed fan I know has been waiting for this game to come out. Finally, we enter...
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1.2KWe Interview: Takashi Iizuka (Director/Producer/Writer) about Sonic x Shadow Generations, his work at SEGA, and the creation of Shadow the Hedgehog!
I have been such a big fan of Sonic Team, Sega, and the Sonic the Hedgehog games for as long as I...
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1.6KSonic X Shadow Generations hands-on preview [SGF] – From the Shadows, a hero re-emerges
Sonic Generations blew the fan base out of the water mixing the old school Sonic with the new Sonic. Generations was a...
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3.1KMetaphor: ReFantazio hands-on preview [SGF] – Similar style, different faces, brand new lands to explore!
It is sometimes difficult to create an entirely new IP in a genre as complex as a JRPG/RPG adventure and have your...
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966We Interview: Louise Blain (Creative Director for Blumhouse Games) about Fear the Spotlight and more!
During Summer Game Fest, Blumhouse Games shocked us all with a reveal of a slate of games that all look different and...
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1.2KFear the Spotlight hands-on preview [SGF] – Blumhouse Games starts their journey with a masterclass in horror by CozyGamePals
I play a lot of scary games, from indie horror to AAA horror, I love either playing myself, watching others play, or...
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1.3KAstro Bot hands-on preview [SGF] – A celebration of everything PlayStation!
On May 30th, Sony announced the brand new game Astro Bot, featuring an entire game featuring our little robot buddy and some...
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1.7KLEGO Horizon Adventures hands-on preview [SGF] – The heart of LEGO Horizon Adventures is a golden brick!
If you’ve followed my work on GamingTrend for long you know I’m a huge LEGO fan. I personally do LEGO builds and...
