Tag: card game

The League of Legends trading card game, Riftbound, will launch this year

The League of Legends…

As of this week, the official trading card game for League of Legends has a real name (it was…
Stray Gods studio reveals its next game, an ‘unholy roguelite deckbuilder’ about hunting demons in a festering city

Stray Gods studio reveals…

Following the success of the musical RPG Stray Gods, Summerfall Studios has unveiled its next project: a “demonic roguelite…
‘You must have played this before!’: Balatro’s creator impressed bystanders with his Balatro skills at GDC, and nobody knew who he was

‘You must have played…

Balatro developer LocalThunk is notoriously private. It’s not some kind of put-on: Wout van Halderen, communications director of Balatro…
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…