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Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the time he was a gold farmer in World of Warcraft (for research)
Apparently, Gabe Newell -- you know, the billionaire president of Valve who has enough money to, say, throw it into the bonfire of rejiggering...
Valve plans a wholesale reboot for its digital CCG Artifact
Like the Black Knight of Monty Python and the Holy Grail fame, Valve's Artifact is not ready to give up the fight despite its...
PAX East 2020: Hands-on with Cryptic’s Magic Legends
I’ll be honest, Magic: The Gathering is one realm of geekdom that I’ve never really gotten into. I know a bit about it, but...
The Game Archaeologist: The legacy of Guild Wars
Last week on The Game Archaeologist, we examined the exciting beginnings of Guild Wars, thanks to a trio of ex-Blizzard developers who wanted to...
Legends of Runeterra promises monthly updates, new modes, and fewer ‘trash cards’
Riot Games' shiny new digital CCG Legends of Runeterra has high hopes for itself. Executive producer Jeff Jew elaborated on a number of plans...
Online tactical CCG Duelyst is officially shutting down in February
There will soon be one less online CCG for people to enjoy as of February with the official closure of Bandai Namco's Duelyst, which...
Riot Games’ Legends of Runeterra writes a thank-you note to its community
Awwww, Riot Games loves its Legends of Runeterra players. In a moment of warm fuzzies, the devs of the League of Legends CCG have...
Hearthstone previews Galakrond’s Awakening adventures, Overwatch brings on the Year of the Rat event
It's time for Blizzard game news that doesn't involve WoW! No, I'm not writing about anything new from Diablo III. That'd just be silly....
Riot Games’ Legends of Runeterra enters open beta on January 24
It would appear that there's enough of a fanbase for the in-development League of Legends CCG Legends of Runeterra that Riot is accelerating some...
Demi is a free-to-play online TCG with battling pantheons and online card trading now on Kickstarter
To read the crowdfunding pitch of Demi, you'd be forgiven for thinking that card games have lost some of the plot, and if you...
Riot teases League of Legends’ Clash, new champions, and next Legends of Runeterra beta for 2020
"New year, new Rift" promises the start of League of Legends' latest video which showcases a number of new features and developments players of...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends teases January update, Carrie Fisher tribute event tonight
There's a content update on the horizon for Star Wars Galaxies Legends and it apparently really enjoys being a Sith. The sandbox rogue server...
Hearthstone details its December 10 Descent of Dragons expansion
Dragons are coming to Hearthstone, and they're angry. Why are they always angry? Why can't dragons be more chill like Puff or the one...
Bethesda’s MMOTCG Elder Scrolls Legends is destined for maintenance mode
Bad news for fans of the Elder Scrolls franchise card battler Elder Scrolls Legends: Bethsoft announced today that it's effectively putting the game into...
Riot promises to balance Legends of Runeterra to make all competitive formats fair
The downright Sisyphean task of balancing competitive CCG gameplay has begun for Riot's Legends of Runeterra, but game designer Steve Rubin promises that the...
Hearthstone Battlegrounds takes a deep dive into how the game determines your rating
Many game devs are extremely mum about how they come to determine a player's competitive rating. Not Hearthstone, which seems to be all too...
ExileCon 2019: Summing up Path of Exile’s epic inaugural con (plus all our photos!)
Other than the pre-con jitters of devs unsure what to expect or how things would ultimately go, you wouldn't know that ExileCon 2019 was...
Blizzard’s Joe Magdalena recounts a World of Warcraft bear that could kill players with a look
In most MMOs, bears are low-level foes that are part of some early stage kill 10 quest or perhaps used to harvest lower level...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMO betas rob you of launch joy?
I use to think of betas as being unpaid labor for video game companies, but maybe I've been going about it all wrong. On...
Riot swears its Legends of Runeterra CCG won’t be pay-to-win
It's easy to assume that Legends of Runeterra, the digital CCG from the League of Legends universe, would be just chock-full of "surprise mechanics"...
