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Breaking the Magic
For the first time in almost four weeks, I played a different game. This is bad news for ArenaNet. Okay, maybe not really. I have mentioned before that I dislike playing multiple games: my M.O. is to...
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Hex
In the event that you didn’t read last Friday’s Penny Arcade, they talked about the Cryptozoic Kickstarter for a “MMO-TCG” called Hex. Basically, Hex is Magic Online meets WoW TCG meets cards that can...
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Instant Gratification vs Fun Investment
All this talk about Magic: the Gathering makes me want to revisit a topic I briefly touched on last week, in the comments here and elsewhere. Namely, the sort of denigration of “instant gratification”...
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First Impressions: Card Hunter (beta)
I got into the Card Hunter beta last Thursday. It is rare anymore for me to spend a lengthy amount of time playing the same game. Game developers these days front-load their daily bonuses in such a way...
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Maybe not so indie after all…
One of the points I made yesterday regarding Card Hunter’s potential was: 1) Card Hunter is not being made by some large corporation (even if their F2P pricing is similar); It occurred to me later...
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Beta Impressions: Scrolls
I tried out Scrolls the other day, mainly due to this video. My initial impression is… mixed. Which is not good for a game that requires $20 to buy-in into a beta state. The flesh is willing, but the...
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Beta Impression: SolForge
After becoming increasingly disenchanted with Scrolls while still craving a card-game experience, I found out that SolForge was in Open Beta as a F2P game. On Steam, no less. Score! I have to...
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Beta Impression: Hearthstone
Yes, I made it into the beta with that ridiculous email and Press™ credentials. It just goes to show you that with hard work and a can-do attitude Camus was right. Embrace the Absurd. Anyway…...
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[Hearthstone] Remaining Concerns
My Press™ coverage of Hearthstone has been pretty glowing thus far, so I wanted to talk today about some lingering concerns about a few issues that cropped up in the last week. I do not believe these...
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Hearthstone Beta Patch Notes
All Hearthstone progress was wiped last Wednesday, and we are now Live for all intents and purposes; no further wipes are planned between now and (eventual) release. In addition to that news, a number...
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Hearthstone’s Future
SynCaine brought up an interesting point about the future of Hearthstone: “situation in Hearthstone only ever improves” Until the the first expansion is released, and what do you think is going to be...
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Who’s On First (Beatdown)
In the comments for Unleash the Rage, Rohan and I had a little back and forth on whether or not I could have handled the Unleash the Hounds situation differently. While I am still rather certain that...
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Hearthstone P2W?
Gevlon had a post up last Friday about Hearthstone that claimed the following: My problem isn’t that you must pay to be anything but a punching bag. I’ve played 5 years of World of Warcraft, paying 720...
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On Randomness
As you may or may not be aware, there was a bit of RNG controversy in a recent Hearthstone tournament. Heading into the tie-breaking Final match, the following occurred: But as the match started,...
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Blizzard’s Q4 2014 Report: Hearthstone Edition
The big news in the Activision Blizzard Quarterly Report everywhere else is that WoW appears to have stabilized at 10 million subscriptions. Also, that Hearthstone has 25 million registered users,...
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Hearthstone Dilemmas
[Blaugust Day 24] For all the the derision Hearthstone might get for being coin-flips and “dumbed down” and such, sometimes you end up facing a straight-up agonizing dilemma. For example, this game...
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Nerf Forward
Blizzard did it. They really did it. Warsong Commander nerfed hardcore. #NeverForgetToChargeForward Specifically, the card was nerfed to simply say “Your charge minions have +1 Attack.” There are a...
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Splitting the Hearthstone Baby
Breaking news: Blizzard finally did it. They really did it. God damn you all to… nah, it’s cool. In traditional Hearthstone fashion, the news of Blizzard splitting the Play format baby into Standard...
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Impression: Infinity Wars
I took a look at my Steam Wishlist the other day, and noticed that one of the items was a F2P game called Infinity Wars. It was not a game I was expressly seeking out, but one of those games casually...
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Well and Truly Hexed
Now this is always a nice email surprise: Title: Your account has been deleted! From: noreply@gameforge.com Greetings XXXX! Your HEX account has been permanently deleted. We hope you had a fun time in...
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