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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...
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...
Legends of Runeterra promises quarterly releases in 2023 with new champions, modes, and features
"As a small team of passionate developers, we have been taking your requests for more content with more consistency seriously," opens part of a...
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...
The Soapbox: Comparing the monetization of physical and digital card games
Earlier this week, we reported on the recent Blizzard survey about a possible Hearthstone sub. When I read the news, I almost choked on...
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...
Hearthstone revs up Battlegrounds Season 3 for next week
The third season of Hearthstone's Battlegrounds is set to kick off on January 17th under the careful tutelage of Professor Putricide. Wait, where did...
Hearthstone hands out free gifts for Winter Veil
Have you been naughty or nice this year? Arthas doesn't care; the Lich King is going to reward any who come to his Hearthstone...
Overwatch 2 launches Winter Wonderland this week
It's time to mark the wintery season in both Hearthstone and Overwatch 2 as both games have lined up their seasonal events for the......
Hearthstone: March of the Lich King arrives today with the Death Knight and 145 new cards
You can't keep a powerful lich king down! We mean that literally: You bury one, and it'll pop back up in the morning with...
Genshin Impact version 3.3 brings new characters, new items, and a new trading card game
All Senses Clear, All Existence Void. It's not just a general mindset for our modern times; it's the name of the next update coming...
Hearthstone preps March of the Lich King set with new patch
It's not quite launch day for Hearthstone's newest card set, March of the Lich King, but that's not going to stop Blizzard from being...
Harry Potter Magic Awakened announces plans for a 2023 launch as it tightens up the game
NetEase's mobile MMOTCG Harry Potter: Magic Awakened has been doing a lot of previewing, singing, and pre-registering, but it hasn't done a lot of...
WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, and more to sunset in China following failed Blizzard-Netease licensing deal
Last week, as part of its Q3 2022 investor report, Activision-Blizzard included what we described as an ominous note about its apparent difficulties negotiating...
