Hong Kong native Ng "blitzchung" Wai Chung has signed with the pro Hearthstone team Tempo Storm, clearly signaling that he's going to continue his career in the game once his ban has run its course…
November 1, 2019 | 02:30 EDT
Earlier this month, Blizzard banned professional Hearthstone player Chung Ng Wai (blitzchung) over pro-Hong Kong remarks, igniting a firestorm of online controversy. Thousands pledged support for…
October 30, 2019 | 08:06 EDT
In light of Hearthstone professional player Ng Wai Chung's (aka blitzchung) ban after pro-Hong Kong statements, a bipartisan group of United States senators sent a strongly worded letter directly to…
October 18, 2019 | 08:32 EDT
Following the Hearthstone Hong Kong protest that led to Blitzchung being banned for 12 months (and subsequently reduced to 6 months), the American University Hearthstone team has finally suffered a…
October 16, 2019 | 02:24 EDT
Chung "Blitzchung" Ng Wai has responded to Blizzard's recent statement over his suspension regarding his public comments regarding the ongoing Hong Kong Controversy. Blitzchung, posting a…
October 14, 2019 | 03:10 EDT
After a massive online outcry over Blizzard's removal of two shoutcasters and the year-long ban of a professional Hearthstone player who expressed his support for Hong Kong, President of Blizzard J.…
October 11, 2019 | 09:24 EDT
CD Projekt Red announced today that a closed beta for the long-awaited iOS version of Gwent: The Witcher Card Game will launch on October 15th. Prospective iOS players can sign up for the…
October 11, 2019 | 06:31 EDT
The American University Hearthstone team has forfeited their next match and the remainder of the Collegiate Hearthstone championships following Blizzard's failure to penalize them for a protest that…
October 11, 2019 | 07:01 EDT
Recently, Blizzard Entertainment, the creators of the Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft franchises, have come under a lot of fire due to their rigid stance regarding the Hong Kong protests. Chung Ng…
October 9, 2019 | 05:17 EDT
Today, renowned Hearthstone caster, player, Youtuber, and Twitch streamer Brian Kibler announced that he would no longer cast the Hearthstone Grandmasters tournaments. He informed Blizzard of his…
October 9, 2019 | 03:38 EDT
The Blizzard Hong Kong controversy is escalating. Following an incident where a professional Hearthstone player stated a pro-Hong Kong message in a post-game interview and was subsequently banned for…
October 9, 2019 | 11:14 EDT
A Hearthstone Hong Kong controversy has led to a 12-month ban for Chung "Blitzchung" Ng Wai and the ending of a working relationship with two casters. Blitzchung was speaking with the casters in a…
October 8, 2019 | 06:21 EDT
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game is getting a new expansion. Titled Gwent: Iron Judgement, the expansion will launch for PC and consoles in October. Iron Judgement revolves around the return of King…
September 17, 2019 | 09:30 EDT
A new format called MTG Arena Historic Play is going to be added to the newest digital version of Magic: The Gathering, but it comes with a catch: the cards are going to cost twice as much in this…
September 3, 2019 | 04:20 EDT
The recent Hearthstone card changes which saw eight cards get new art (and in two cases, a completely different name) have nothing to do with Chinese censorship according to a statement from Blizzard…
July 5, 2019 | 10:20 EDT
Update: Blizzard has officially commented and stated that the change is not due to China or any external factor. Original Story Below Eight Hearthstone censored cards have been revealed in the latest…
July 2, 2019 | 12:43 EDT
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game (Our Review) has been continually evolving since its final release last year in October, which also evolved from two grueling years in beta. Last March we also saw the…
June 17, 2019 | 08:19 EDT
Wizards of the Coast have revealed details behind an exclusive multi-week event for Magic: The Gathering Arena players. War of the Spark Chronicles is a free event where players can earn cosmetic…
May 17, 2019 | 11:28 EDT
The problem with reviewing an ongoing game is that you’re basically writing on water. This is especially true of such a complex and mercurial tactical game as Gwent: The Witcher Card Game. It…
May 2, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
This weekend, Magic: The Gathering creators Wizards of the Coast will be holding a Mythic Invitational event. In order to qualify for the event, players must have achieved mythic status by playing…
March 27, 2019 | 06:26 EDT
Gwent - or, to give it its full title, Gwent: The Witcher Card Game - will be heading to smartphones later this year. The Gwent mobile version will be released for iPhones first, with an Android…
March 27, 2019 | 09:40 EDT
The Gwent Crimson Curse expansion has been announced and it will be arriving sooner than you might think; it will be coming to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One later this March. Gwent is a digital…
March 5, 2019 | 08:55 EST
Wizards of the Coast, makers of the popular card game Magic The Gathering, have announced their intention to drop MSRP from all of their future MTG products. The move is part of an apparent attempt…
February 20, 2019 | 11:40 EST
Magic: The Gathering's deep lore expands with a new novella by fantasy author Brandon Sanderson. Best of all, this novella is free and available now. Children of the Nameless is this new work, which…
December 12, 2018 | 02:16 EST
The response to Valve’s announcement of a Dota-themed card game was loud and dissatisfied. Despite being made in collaboration with famed Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield, it was…
December 4, 2018 | 02:00 EST
Blizzard's World of Warcraft-themed collectible card game Hearthstone has hit 100 million players worldwide. To celebrate this achievement, Blizzard will be holding a special in-game event from…
November 6, 2018 | 09:00 EST
It seems that the leak that popped up earlier today is true: Rastakhan's Rumble is the next expansion for Hearthstone and it's set to arrive on December 4, 2018. Rastakhan's Rumble is a troll-…
November 2, 2018 | 05:52 EDT
PC Gamer appears to have accidentally included text from another article in a recent piece about SCUM. Said text just so happened to be information on the next Hearthstone expansion which is…
November 2, 2018 | 02:34 EDT
Magic: The Gathering Arena entered open beta on September 27. The game has since enjoyed a great influx of new players that didn't manage to get a closed beta key--100 million matches played since…
October 26, 2018 | 01:37 EDT
The Gwent: Homecoming open PTR was announced on October 5 and it was available to play for five days. I’ve been obsessed with Gwent since the closed beta started in October 2016, though I’ve played…
October 13, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
Following a three-day downtime as part of its release out of closed beta, Magic: The Gathering Arena is now available as an open beta, though it's still due to roll out in some regions. At least for…
September 27, 2018 | 08:50 EDT
Wizards of the Coast has announced the open beta phase of Magic: The Gathering Arena. The closed beta phase started on November 3, 2017, and it has gone through many updates, both in terms of…
September 19, 2018 | 08:14 EDT
During the Gwent Challenger #4 tournament this Sunday, CD Projekt RED gave the audience the first chance to see what Gwent: Homecoming will look like. Pawel Burza, the Community Manager of the Gwent…
September 2, 2018 | 05:05 EDT
Earlier today I got to write a preview piece on the upcoming adventure game Stone. However, I also got a chance to talk with Greg Louden, who is taking the role of writer, director, and programmer…
August 16, 2018 | 10:00 EDT
Magic: The Gathering Arena is a free-to-play digital collectible card game being developed by Wizards of the Coast's internal development studio, Magic Digital Studio. It's the newest digital…
July 18, 2018 | 02:07 EDT
I remember the first time I played Magic: The Gathering in 1997. My school friends and I heard about a small shop in town that was authorized to sell it, set up in the entrance hall of an old house.…
July 18, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
Wizards of the Coast and Tencent have announced today that they are partnering to bring the new Magic: The Gathering Arena digitally to China and other Asian regions. Tencent, a Chinese media…
April 23, 2018 | 11:45 EDT
An open letter from CD Projekt RED CEO Marcin Iwiński was just published on the official Gwent website. Claiming a personal investment in the game with close to 350 hours clocked in, Iwiński's…
April 13, 2018 | 02:45 EDT
During a Twitch live stream, the CD Projekt Red team revealed 20 new cards in the upcoming mid-winter update for Gwent the Witcher Card Game. Gwent was initially a mini-game in the Witcher 3, but it'…
November 30, 2017 | 07:47 EST
GWENT: Thronebreaker, the upcoming single-player campaign for CD PROJEKT RED's digital card game GWENT: The Witcher Card Game, has been delayed to 2018 according to a news post on the game's official…
November 22, 2017 | 08:25 EST
Hearthstone fans who were waiting for more content after the Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion may not need to wait that much longer as Blizzard just announced Hearthstone's upcoming expansion,…
November 4, 2017 | 05:37 EDT
GWENT, the card game sourced from the universe of The Witcher, has released the Gold Immunity update according to an announcement on GOG.com. Additionally, a new starter pack has been made available…
August 29, 2017 | 01:05 EDT
A digital collectible card game using the lore of the Warcraft series, Hearthstone is Blizzard Entertainment's foray into card gaming. It's free to play with regular updates and new mechanics, and…
August 20, 2017 | 02:53 EDT
The Year of the Mammoth, Hearthstone's new year, arrived in April and brought many changes for Blizzard's trading card game. Chief of which was the removal of the single-player quasi-expansion "…
July 10, 2017 | 04:45 EDT
Hearthstone players just got a good bit of news today - the way that drops work for the card pack system will be changing according to a blog post on the game's official website. The biggest bit of…
June 22, 2017 | 07:56 EDT
The PC Gaming Show shifted towards a card game as Kripparian came in via video to talk about an upcoming expansion for Kripparian came in via video to talk about an upcoming expansion for Shadowverse…
June 12, 2017 | 02:35 EDT
Polish developer CD PROJEKT RED has officially opened the doors to all prospective card collectors and players wanting to take their new game Gwent: The Witcher Card Game for a spin. This standalone…
May 25, 2017 | 01:17 EDT
When GWENT was introduced as a minigame in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, it was just a small extra CD Projekt RED added to the game. Surprisingly enough, many players (including yours truly) took to it…
May 12, 2017 | 08:30 EDT