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Tag: card game

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…
Magic: The Gathering’s interplanar Wacky Wheels set is good actually

Magic: The Gathering’s interplanar…

Last year we had a murder mystery expansion for Magic: The Gathering, followed by a Wild West one. As…
After falling victim to the recent US TikTok ban, Marvel Snap switches to a new US-based publisher

After falling victim to…

Last week Marvel Snap went offline during the United States’ short-lived TikTok ban. The superhero CCG was swept up…
Death Howl is an impossible and brilliant blend of soulslike, turn-based strategy, and deckbuilding, and you can try it for free now

Death Howl is an…

I’ll admit I rolled my eyes a bit at Death Howl‘s self-proclaimed genre, “soulslike deckbuilder”. Reporting on PC games…
Magic’s death race set Aetherdrift gives us the goblins we deserve: ones who look like a psychobilly album cover

Magic’s death race set…

Aetherdrift is a Magic: The Gathering expansion whose designers looked at Mad Max and Death Race 2000 and said,…