hearthstone
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Hearthstone’s Next Balance Patch Proves Kobolds & Catacombs Was An Unbalanced Mess
Early next week, Blizzard will release Hearthstone‘s largest balance patch in two years, changing a total of six cards, one of which was nerfed less than a year ago. What’s interesting is that four of the affected cards are all from the one expansion — Kobolds & Catacombs — a testament to the expansion’s ridiculous…
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I Have Had It Up To Here With Voidlord
There is no objective way to measure whether something in a game is fun or not. But in the context of competitive online gaming, where empowerment for one player sometimes translates into abject misery for another, it’s much more common to encounter a mechanic so demoralising, so soul-crushingly boring, that you simply know in your…
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Wackiness, Not Power, Defines Hearthstone’s New Witchwood Cards
Now that all the cards from Hearthstone‘s Witchwood expansion have been revealed, most streamers and analysts are doing their best to rate cards and theorycraft about the upcoming meta. Well, dear reader, we’ve been through this enough times to know that once the expansion drops tomorrow, everyone will prove to be slightly wrong in their…
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How To Get 2 Extra Free Packs During Hearthstone’s Year Of The Raven Celebration
It can be difficult to stay competitive in Hearthstone, Blizzard’s digital card game, if you’re entirely free-to-play. So, when the opportunity arises to score packs and fill out your collection at no cost, you’ll want to do what you can to maximise your gains… so to speak. Fortunately, if you play your cards right (heh),…