Magic: Arena has been trucking for some time this year and only in this past month did it enter its open beta phase. Yep, no friend codes needed, you can just jump in and play and experience what is basically a 1:1 analog of paper Magic. Ou...

Magic: The Gathering Arena is starting to gain some momentum and if the developers can solve the dreaded "fifth card problem" (read: rewarding players fairly for getting cards they don't need) and shape up the economy it has a long run ahea...

Well as it turns out: burning a World Tree in cold blood does pay off. Although the player base was on fire going into the launch of World of Warcraft's Battle for Azeroth expansion, Activision saw the green in the end. Speaking on an ...

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that their deck-building card battler, Hearthstone, has registered a whopping 100 million players since its launch back in 2014. Yes, it was that long ago. Obviously this number refers to all accounts ac...

Live on stage at BlizzCon, the Hearthstone team announced Rastakhan's Rumble, the next expansion for the game that was already spoiled by leaks. It'll deal with the Trolls in the famous Stranglethorn Vale zone and will featur...

Ever since the start of Magic: Arena's beta period folks have been clamoring for a way to directly play with your friends. I mean it is Magic after all: a highly social game, and limiting Arena to matchmaking for any period of tim...

Contests are a way a life. Enter ours for a Steam Early Access key of Fate Hunters. It's tough for indie devs out there. I can't tell you how many I've come across in my short journey in the games industry that have told me as much. You're ...

The folks behind Gwent have been busy as of late, and in a few short weeks, card-loving Witcher fans will be too. It's almost time for Thronebreaker, the "30-hour" standalone single-player RPG campaign from CD Projekt Red with "unique puzzl...

Well hello there, my friends! you didn't think I was going to keep letting Wes have all the fun did you? No, no. We can't have that. Enough about that terrible Taco man though, we are here to celebrate the release of Armello on Sw...

CD Projekt RED are finally taking their Witcher in-universe card game, Gwent, out of open beta next month. Gwent: The Witcher's Card Game will officially launch October 23 on PC, with console editions to follow in December.Along with the of...

Magic: The Gathering is getting ready for a massive shakeup in October. In less than a month standard (read: the most popular competitive mode) is cycling out a whopping five sets (Kaladesh, Aether Revolt, Amonkhet, Hour of Devastation, and...

Let's talk about Artifact. The card-based battler was shown off to the public for the first time last weekend at PAX West, and I got to go hands-on with it during the show and speak with a couple of the game's developers. It's significant m...

Over the course of the last eight months I've become engrossed in the world of Fantasy Flight Games' Lord of the Rings LCG, despite the fact that it was released all the way back in 2011. For those of you who aren't familiar with the c...

Blizzard's Hearthstone is one of the company's more unusual creations. A digital representation of a physical card game, based on a venerable MMORPG, itself based on a real-time-strategy game (based on the Warhammer universe, but ...

Back at March's EGLX show, local hero CJ Andriessen and I got to sit down with Uncaged: World Fighters, a mixed martial arts-based card game where two people use various fighting styles to attack and defend until one person is beaten into s...

A surprise announcement was made during the finals of Square Enix' Million Arthur: Arcana Blood tournament this weekend, as SNK revealed that Million Arthur's pint-sized star, Thief Arthur, will be joining the roster of the upcoming SNK Her...

Bethesda, hilariously, has had a hell of a time dealing with Sony policies over the years. Sony infamously blocked Bethesda when it came to console mods, and now here the publisher is dealing with another issue in 2018. This time, speaking ...

Blizzard's Hearthstone released its most recent expansion yesterday, and the mad-science themed The Boomsday Project adds 135 cards to the venerable digital CCG. The set adds several new mechanics and offers some new deck archetyp...

This one has been a long time coming. I was originally supposed to run this giveaway over a year ago, and it slipped. I slipped. I am truly sorry to everyone involved. That said, this game is fucking awesome. I am truly lucky to be able off...

We all have an idea of what game we'd like to see Valve work on next, but for the time being, there's Artifact -- a Dota card game made in collaboration with Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield. Valve has confirmed a Novembe...

Just before launching the campaign for The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, Edmund McMillen hit me up on Twitter to ask me if I had any advice on how to help him promote his new game. He seemed a little unsure of how well it would do. This is ...

Magic Arena is slowly but surely adding in enough features to start to resemble parity with the physical card game, and the day-and-date expansion releases are a huge part of that. Core 2019, the latest Magic set is now live, and everyone c...

After nearly two decades I'm getting back into Magic: The Gathering, and I've found that one of the best methods for acclimating back into the fray is getting in at the ground level. That's basically what this weekend's Core 2019 prerelease...

Onboarding people into Magic: The Gathering is one of the easiest things I've ever done. I always try to tell them that there's caveats depending on the type of mode you play (some are super cheap, some are super...not), but as a gener...

Edmund McMillen, the prolific indie dev behind Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac, is taking his incredibly depressing game about childhood dread and translating it into a real-life card game. Called The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, t...