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Massively Overthinking: Tabletop and boardgames for MMORPG players
Last week, following the crowdfunding of an Elder Scrolls boardgame, the MOP staff got derailed by a discussion on boardgame prices (it's expensive, y'all)....
Hearthstone’s latest patch outlines an upcoming event for Festival of Legends and balances several cards
Tuesday, April 11th, will kick off the Festival of Legends expansion for Hearthstone, and the digital card game is celebrating its arrival with an...
The MOP Up: Hearthstone welcomes the Year of the Wolf
The Year of the Wolf is coming to Hearthstone: "Throughout the Year of the Wolf, we’ll be focusing our efforts on making Hearthstone and...
NetEase’s Harry Potter: Magic Awakened conjures a soft launch in select countries
While wizards may need a wand with a gummy juice core to do magic, all players need is a good deck of cards. It's...
Fight or Kite: Faeria is a cross between a card game and skirmishing boardgame
Look, up in the sky! It’s a card game! It’s a skirmishing boardgame! It’s Faeria! Yes, it's Faeria, a strange digital mashup from developer...
Hearthstone strikes up the band and readies concert goodness in April’s Festival of Legends expansion
What happens when you mix a battle of the bands with a digital CCG? We're all going to find out when Hearthstone releases its...
Fight or Kite: Shadowverse is a wildly successful card game, but it takes cash to compete
Next up in the carousel of card game cutouts we're going to look at here in MOP's Fight or Kite column is a tiny,...
Fight or Kite: The Witcher card game GWENT checks off a lot of the right boxes – but too many of the wrong ones
Continuing on my journey to digital card game bliss, I chose to try out a game I had mentally filed as one of the...
Hearthstone adjusts the armor of Battlegrounds heroes and applies a list of bug fixes
Armor is important when you're going into a battlefield, so those who enjoy playing the Battlegrounds mode of Hearthstone will likely want to pay...
Genshin Impact brings back a spring festival and adds two new characters to the roster March 1
Before you know it, spring will be in bloom in our portion of the globe, but players of Genshin Impact will know that the...
Vague Patch Notes: Diversions are what makes the MMO
I am going to put forth a theory today in the Vague Patch Notes column. It is potentially an odd theory, and as sometimes...
Fight or Kite: Deckbuilder Ascension is far better as a video game than as a physical one
I mentioned at the top of the Fight or Kite piece about HEROish that I’ve been hankering for some card games. I haven’t spent...
Hearthstone’s Mercenaries mode will get one last major patch that adds new mercs, mechanics, and endgame
If you're a regular player of the Mercenaries game mode in Hearthstone, then we have good news and bad news: The game is going...
The Soapbox: Subscriptions might actually be the next big innovation in digital card games
What started earlier this week as a rant on how bad an idea a subscription model in Hearthstone would be evolved into something more:...
Hearthstone applies balance adjustments to Battlegrounds, Duels, and several of its latest cards
With Hearthstone's March of the Lich King expansion now almost two months old, the devs of the online CCG have had time to take...
Massively Overthinking: What will be your three most-played MMOs in 2023?
Last week in Massively Overthinking, we discussed our three most-played MMOs of 2022 - and whether we'd guessed right at the top of that...
WoW Factor: Brian Birmingham’s ousting and the ever-deepening rot at Blizzard
Talking about this company is always so exhausting, but let's do a quick recap: Brian Birmingham was, up until recently, one of the top...
Blizzard polls players about a Hearthstone sub as it scales back esports
We begin this article by noting right up front that Blizzard is terribly fond of floating bad ideas in surveys and then saying, Ha...
Fight or Kite: HEROish is blend of MOBA and card game aimed at both PvE and PvP players
I’ve always wanted to really get into some meaty card games. Swords, sorcery, and high fantasy were always my favorite things. My family knew...
SMITE unveils a Magic The Gathering crossover, a new god, and the Season of Monsters for January 24
Ten years is a major milestone for any game, but it seems a significantly bigger one for MOBAs as very few of them appear...
