Metagame

Nobody ever asks why anyone stopped playing Halo 2. No response would merit it. The game came out in 2004, and three…

If failure is the quintessence of humility, then as I sat slumped over a fold-out chair in a bar beside a CRT…

Yesterday, Blizzard dropped a Hearthstone balance update that could easily qualify as the most significant set of…

Blizzard has now announced all of the cards from Hearthstone’s upcoming Rastakhan’s Rumble expansion, and once…

Hearthstone’s Boomsday Project expansion has been live for two months now, and as tends to happen at the end of the…

I’m trying my luck at a big Magic: The Gathering tournament next weekend, and I’m struck by powerful indecision.…

If you’ve played any Hearthstone since the Boomsday expansion launched in August, you’ve probably gotten destroyed…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has been out for more than a week now, and people are discovering the wonders of Ancient…

As sports video games have shown us, sports are just games with off-the-court metagame layers attached. Also…

One of the most persistently annoying mechanics in Hearthstone is Taunt. When a minion has Taunt, you have to attack…