Tag: card game

Wizards of the Coast throws a bone to players who miss vanilla Magic: The Gathering with a dragon-themed set called Tarkir: Dragonstorm

Wizards of the Coast…

The last few years of Magic: The Gathering have seen a lot of crossovers, like Fallout and Middle-earth, as…
Balatro’s LocalThunk isn’t ‘trying to pull a Banksy’, he just ‘wanted to be left alone to make his game’

Balatro’s LocalThunk isn’t ‘trying…

Balatro may have started as a small hobby project, but several awards and millions of copies sold later, it’s…
Winning $2

Winning $2.6 billion in…

I like playing poker. Let me rephrase that: I like playing fake poker, in videogames, so I’m always on…
The official Balatro Timeline documents the history of 2024’s biggest game as its developer went from ‘obsessed’ with making it to ‘shocked’ at the reception

The official Balatro Timeline…

By any measure, Balatro is a phenomenon. A weird little indie card game that came out of nowhere in…
Hearthstone card reveal: If it’s wrong to love a magic blue owl, I don’t want to be right

Hearthstone card reveal: If…

It is to my not insubstantial regret that I didn’t get around to writing about how fun Hearthstone’s Starcraft…
Early backers of game decry ‘bait and switch’ after it backtracks on monetisation promises, dev chooses to stir the pot: ‘Seeing Reddit lose it today lets me breathe a huge sigh of relief’

Early backers of game…

The Bazaar, after seven long years, is finally entering into open beta with a F2P package—and it’s, uh, not…
This Yu-Gi-Oh! retro collection transported me to a simpler time in TCGs, before Pot of Greed was banned and the Avengers were in Magic: The Gathering

This Yu-Gi-Oh! retro collection…

Some of my most cherished early videogame memories are of playing Yu-Gi-Oh games as a grade schooler while understanding…
Balatro finally escapes its silly 18+ age rating, PEGI promises ‘a more granular set of classification criteria’ for gambling-themed games in the future

Balatro finally escapes its…

One of the most head-scratch-inducing videogame ratings of all time has finally been changed, as game rating organization Pan…
Thanks to the upcoming Final Fantasy set, Magic: The Gathering is getting a fishing minigame, as well as a new kind of summon and more cards that transform

Thanks to the upcoming…

Each of Magic’s crossover sets has adapted its source material to the rules of Magic: The Gathering in a…