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Here’s a Full Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Match for Your Viewing Pleasure
Blizzard revealed its new World of Warcraft-themed collectible card game at PAX East this morning, wrapping up the announcement with a match played in front of a live ballroom audience. Here is that match, in all its glory. It’s actually a pretty standard CCG from the looks of it, enhanced by Blizzard’s signature spit and…
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Blizzard’s Got Something New To Show Us at PAX East. Let’s Watch. Update: It’s All Over
PAX East kicks off this morning in lovely scenic Boston, beginning with the big Blizzard Entertainment Presents panel from 10:00 to 10:30 Eastern. Or at least I am assuming it’s big. Perhaps I should just stick with “new” until the mystery is solved. As if the playable debut of the PlayStation 4 version of Diablo…
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No One Knew This Vita RPG Was Coming Out. Tecmo Koei is Working to Make Sure It Doesn’t Happen Again.
Fans of Japanese developer Gust’s long-lived series of alchemy-based Atelier role-playing games are a little miffed with Tecmo Koei. First the latest PlayStation 3 installment of the game — Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk — hit store shelves earlier this month to very little fanfare. Then the PlayStation Vita port of Atelier Totori: The…
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Another Serious Game Falls to Apple’s Anger-Inducing Approval Process
Proven countless times over the past several years alone, video games are a form of entertainment uniquely suited to communicating serious subjects in an interactive fashion — far more effectively than reading a book or watching a documentary. Unfortunately Apple wants nothing to do with that sort of communication, so UK developer Littleloud’s Sweatshop HD…
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Magic: The Gathering Casts a Spell on Android This Summer
Wizards of the Coast has turned Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers into geek Madden, each year releasing a fresh set of cards, formulating new challenges, and unleashing them upon a card-collecting public that never stops wanting more. This year’s entry reaches a little further than 2013’s iOS, PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and…
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The Most Dramatic Uno Trailer You’ll Ever See
Coming soon to Android, iPad and Facebook, Gameloft’s Uno & Friends will probably deliver a much more relaxing experience than the one depicted in this first trailer. There is more acting going on in this than in all three Star Wars prequels combined.
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They Make Some of the Best Adventure Games. Now They’re Taking on Turn-Based Tactics.
Germany’s Daedalic Entertainment has spent the past several years making a name for itself as one of the top adventure gaming companies, consistently hand-crafting unique point-and-click experiences for fans of the genre. Now the developer prepares to wade into deeper waters with Blackguard, its first tactical turn-based role-playing game. I’m in. If Daedalic applies the…
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Star Trek Online‘s Largest Expansion Yet Unleashes Playable Romulans
R-R-Romulans have r-r-ridges. Perfect World Entertainment’s is gearing up to launch the most ambitious Star Trek Online expansion to date in May, giving players tired of making excuses for their Vulcan characters to roleplay space sex a more passionate alternative with Legacy of Romulus. And hey look — Tasha Yar is back! Or at least…
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Might & Magic X Legacy is the Old Might & Magic, Only So Much Prettier.
It’s been over a decade since we last saw a proper single-player, first-person PC Might & Magic game. That’s far too long. Thankfully Ubisoft and developer Limbic Entertainment agree, and Might & Magic X Legacy is on its way. Picking up after the events of Might & Magic Heroes VI, X Legacy puts players in…
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When I Imagine Cyberpunk-Style Hack Battles, This is What I See
Since the early days of the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper role-playing setting, I’ve been fascinated by the idea of highly-skilled computer hackers roaming the plains of cyberspace looking for a fight; digital cowboys with their fingers twitching inches away from their plastic 101-shooters. The realization that real hackers are just normal people tapping away at standard keyboards…
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Final Fantasy‘s Lightning Doesn’t Like Sand. It’s Coarse and Rough and Irritating.
Also there are sand dragon things, which are not soft and smooth. The latest batch of screenshots for Final Fantasy XIII Sequel Two: I Guess You Guys Wanted to Play as Lightning shows off the Dead Dunes, a land of dunes and deadness in the world of Nova Chrysalia. Sand is pretty great. It’s easy…
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The People Behind XCOM and Civilization are Bringing Something Spooky to iOS
The folks at Firaxis are responsible for some of the best strategy games ever made, so when they promise a deep, competitive, free-to-play strategy game for iOS in this spring’s Haunted Hollow, it’s a good time to be an iDevice owner. In Haunted Hollow, players construct elaborate mansions that spawn all sorts of nasty horror…
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Moving is No Excuse for Skipping This Week in Gaming Apps
I’m not even supposed to be here today, but the portable nature of mobile gaming means that even in the middle of packing everything I own and putting it in another place, I still have time to play a ton of titles. Yay. I probably could have skipped this weekly feature altogether, but when I…
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Reviews
The Conduit Was an Average Wii Game. Now It’s an Excellent Mobile FPS.
Released in 2009 for the Nintendo Wii, The Conduit was a “bland, but enjoyable” sci-fi first-person shooter with an interesting puzzle-solving twist. I wasn’t a big fan — I only made it through the first two levels before becoming frustrated with the Wii motion controls and giving up. Now the game is out for Tegra-powered…
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The Number One First-Person Shooter on Facebook Takes on Tablets
With more than 10 million monthly players between Facebook and the Mac app store, Cmune’s UberStrike is one of the most popular first-person shooters you may have never heard of. Today’s free-to-play move to iPad and Tegra 3 tablets should make it a little harder to ignore. It’ll be interesting to see how more discerning…
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Culture
Raise a Glass of Pabst Blue Ribbon to the Savior of the Twinkie
The rain has subsided, the clouds slowly dissipate and the forecast for this summer is golden-yellow sponge cake with creme filling, as private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Co confirm a $410 million winning bid for the Hostess brand. After failing to pull clear of bankruptcy in November of last year following…
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Twitter Trends Turn Deadly in This Insane Experimental Shooter
In the screenshot you see here I am being killed by zombies, but they aren’t normal zombies. They are #ReplaceMovieTitlesWithPope zombies, and they are legion. Created by Hamsteria! creator Sean McCracken (with game design support by his five-year-old son, Geoffrey), TweetsOfTheDead is a simple zombie shooter for iOS and Android that spawns enemies based on…
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