Blizzard has had a week. After levying a year-long ban and withholding tournament winnings from professional Hearthstone player Blitzchung for his pro-Hong Kong statements during a Blizzard-hosted stream, an overwhelming flood of disap...

Blizzard has imposed harsh sanctions against a professional Hearthstone player after he expressed support for Hong Kong protesters in their ongoing fight for liberation from the Chinese government. During a live interview over the weekend,&...

Blizzard's Hearthstone has been the face of digital card games for several years now, reliably one of the highest earning mobile titles since it launched in 2014. The simple rules make it easier to follow than competitors such as Magic...

[UPDATE: Keys should be good until July 19th, now. Keep claiming them! Had some issues with the keys, but the new ones should be good!] We've got a ton of codes for you to redeem a Chandra Planeswalker deck in Magic: The Gathering Arena. Ta...

Today's contest is for card packs to usher in The Elder Scrolls: Legends releasing the Moons of Elsweyr content! The Elder Scrolls is everywhere. You can't escape it. It's on consoles, PC, mobile, board games, smart speakers -- you name it,...

Competition has been good for Hearthstone. Even though Artifact never really found an audience, other digital Collectible Card Games (CCGs) like Eternal and Magic The Gathering: Arena have provided some legitimate alternative...

You hold all the cards to winning today's contest for a Switch copy of Monster Slayers! Attention villagers -- we have a monster problem. A pretty big one. They're everywhere. They smell, and they're mean, and frankly. I just don't like the...

The time has come for another Hearthstone expansion and the usual four month cadence lives on. This one is a 135-card joint called "Rise of the Shadows," which focuses on the ethereal and evil Rafaam, as well as his "League of E.V.I.L. with...

The world of The Witcher is already expansive, but the world of The Witcher's collectible card game is about to grow substantially. Five (or so) months after Gwent officially released, it's getting its first expansion. Crimson Cu...

When Hearthstone's new season starts in February, ranked play won't be quite the grind that it has been in the past. Well, at least not for the majority of players. Blizzard has revealed a restructuring of how long it takes to climb ranks i...

I'm still reeling from the first Detective Pikachu trailer. It has a dark, off-kilter, extreme-close-up vibe I didn't see coming, and while I haven't completely reconciled the movie's tone with the property's usual squeaky clean image, I'm ...

There's a new Dragon Ball Z game in the works, and it's based on the Super Dragon Ball Heroes anime. Bandai Namco has just announced Super Dragon Ball Heroes World Mission as part of its Dragon Ball Games Super Showcase...

Blizzard's collectible card game Hearthstone is one of the brightest spots on the company's ledger sheet, having recently surpassed 100 million registered players. The game is in a pretty good place, with Valve's Artifact stumbling out...

Okay, let’s get some things out of the way real quick regarding monetization: Is Artifact free? No, it costs $20 and there is no free alternative. What do I get for buying it? Two complete decks, ten booster packs, a...

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 ...

Contests, get yer contests here. Today, enter to win the Founder's Edition DLC for Prismata. Don't you just hate pesky DLC in free games? It's like, what, do the developers want to make some money on this game they're offering up for free?!...

Free games, free games; where for art thou, free games? They're here, and this time with collectible card game Mad Crown for Steam. What do you get when you mix an RPG, collectible cards, skill progression, dieselpunk aesthetics, monsters, ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Love it or hate it, Blizzard's Hearthstone has become the premier digital collectible card game around, and it's still going strong five years after the initial release. Part of keeping a CCG from becoming stale is a regular influ...

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...

Hearthstone is one of the oldest digital collectible card games (CCGs) around at this point, and certainly one of the most popular. Blizzard's talent for sanding the corners off of dense, crunchy strategy games makes Hearthstone a...