As I was getting ready for my morning Magic: Arena "few game wind-down" break, I was immediately greeted with a pop-up: bam, four cards have been banned. Popular standard cards, mind! Announced this morning and effective immediately, C...

I play a lot of card games. Competitive, cooperative: I'll try them all. That's partially why I've dipped in and out of the Pokemon Trading Card Game since 1998. While I'm generally not down with blind box collectible packs, starter sets li...

Following Hearthstone since the start and dabbling in every expansion has been fascinating. I feel like I've seen it all: super dark storylines, narratives that ape Warcraft proper with loads of fan service and super silly themes ...

While the status of the mobile port is still very much a mystery, the Magic: Arena team reminded us this week that it's still being worked on, and will likely arrive before the end of 2020. In the meantime, there's a lot planned for Ar...

It's time for yet another Magic: The Gathering set, which means that it's time for another Magic: Arena set. As the two formats — paper and digital — debut together, we enter yet another busy year with four sets to jug...

Magic: The Gathering Arena launched last fall (after a lengthy beta period), and continues to stroll through each set (Core 2021 is coming soon). But it's sadly still on just the PC platform: until this week, that is. Wizards of the Coast h...

For several years now, Nintendo fans have clamored for an upgrade for the mostly underwhelming My Nintendo program. Right now the system heavily focuses on discounts and offers for old Wii U and 3DS games, all of which are digital-only. But...

[Update: Slay the Spire is now available for $10 on the App Store.] Following a round of console ports, the fan-favorite deckbuilding roguelike game Slay the Spire is coming to iOS and Android. It's not my thing – card games generally...

Although the last major set of bans for Magic: The Gathering was completely expected (Oko), the situation that has been unfolding in Ikoria has been a lot more complicated. Right now, the meta has been dominated by the use of several c...

You're probably vaguely aware of the situation regarding Valve's Artifact, but here's a brief recap. Released in late 2018 to a lot of promise from DOTA 2 fans, Artifact quickly crumbled and over the course of several months, its playerbase...

Sometimes a video game comes along and is touted as the "[genre game] for people who hate [genre]." I think Signs of the Sojourner wants to be that game for deckbuilders. As someone who has been lukewarm on the genre as a whole, the id...

I'd say that Microsoft Solitaire was before my time, but then again, it kind of wasn't – it's a timeless classic that has been passed down through the decades. Today, it's 30 years old, and it's still beloved. Shout-out to Wes Cherry...

Magic: Arena, as always, is in flux. In a sort of give and take, the season (mastery) pass dropped in value for the Ikoria set, but Wizards of the Coast is bringing back the historic (old cards) ranked queue to compensate. According to Wiza...

In today's contest you can win unique deckbuilding narrative adventure game Signs of the Sojourner! There are plenty of card games on the market these days -- hell, the genre practically blew up a few scant years ago. Most focus on using de...

While Magic: Arena just forged ahead with its Godzilla-filled Ikoria set, there's still plenty of old cards that need some love too. After all, Magic heavily favors standard, but folks have been clamoring for more ways to play the...

A lot of people are lamenting the delays of big-budget games, but some are pointing at the impending release of Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics on Switch and saying "relax." This low key release includes 51 classic board and car...

Normalizing things that society tells us are disgusting is the status quo for Edmund McMillen. Be it Meat Boy's full-body bloody wound or the copious loads of poop in The Binding of Isaac, giving a cute face to signifiers for injury or dis...

For the first time in nearly a year, Valve's Twitter account for Artifact, their under-performing card game, actually tweeted something. It was all the way back in March of 2019 that Valve noted that they were working "towards a better Arti...

Like clockwork, a new expansion has rotated into Magic: Arena while everything else currently in standard is still in play. Ikoria is now live in Magic: Arena and in paper form in Asia, with the worldwide paper release pushed back to May 15...

Legends of Runeterra is gunning for a few popular card games' thrones and I have to say, I'm really enjoying it. Riot Games has really opened up their portfolio this past year, delving into the Auto Chess genre, shooters and even card games...

When Wizards of the Coast said that the next Magic: The Gathering set, Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths, would center around giant monsters, this isn't what I had in mind. Announced this morning, Wizards has struck a deal with Toho Ltd to use...

The last time we left Artifact, it was in a really weird place. Valve wasn't quite using the term "maintenance mode" or "abandoned," but it was clear that it was no longer a priority after a series of launch woes. Its lead architect (the le...

Everything is kind of weird right now, and some publishers are adjusting due to COVID-19 concerns. While a lot of physical meetups and conventions have been outright canceled (either due to practicing social distancing guidelines or by forc...

A pretty monumental change is coming to Hearthstone, which will result in a substantial meta shakeup: there's a new class coming. It's kind of crazy that it hasn't happened since Hearthstone's 2014 launch, but the Demon Hunter (represented ...

[Update: The patch is now live, and you can read the full breakdown here. The gist is that Historic Anthology 2 is ready to go, as well as direct messaging/away social features, color challenges, a new UI for sleeves, and the low key abilit...