Tag: card game

Hearthstone’s ‘year of change’ begins with a twist on one of WoW’s biggest expansions, and a bucket of free cards

Hearthstone’s ‘year of change’…

Being set in the Warcraft universe lets Hearthstone’s developers do pretty much whatever they want with familiar moments in…
Magic: The Gathering’s Tarkir: Dragonstorm set isn’t just about dragons

Magic: The Gathering’s Tarkir:…

Obviously the dragons of Tarkir: Dragonstorm will get a lot of attention. They’re headliners, show-offs, they got their name…
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…
7 years after it was pulled from Steam, Poker Night at the Inventory is coming back in March, and yes, so are the free Team Fortress 2 unlockables

7 years after it…

Poker Night at the Inventory was, for a very brief time, kind of a phenom in the world of…