Author: [email protected] (Tim Clark)

[ad_1] (Image credit: Blizzard) It’s fair to say that, throughout Hearthstone’s eight-year lifespan, the Shaman hero power has mostly sucked Magnataur balls. Sure, it was briefly strong during the midrange meta back when Thing From Below, Tuskarr Totemic and Thunder Bluff Valiant were legal, but that only goes to show how much power creep is…

[ad_1] Hearthstone, like most trading card games, is fundamentally about throwing down monsters and crashing their stats into each other. (It’s also a game about making your opponent tilt off the face off the Earth by dealing a bazillion damage from hand, but that’s a longer article.) So it continues to amuse me how the designers…

[ad_1] Forest Warden Omu’s Buddy gives you free minions each turn, but it’s slow to earn at Tavern Tier 4. (Image credit: Blizzard) According to a survey last summer, just over one in four American men has six or more close friends. So as you can imagine, I was absolutely delighted to receive 75 new…

[ad_1] Patch 22.2 will bring changes to all Hearthstone’s main modes, but the focus is on Battlegrounds. (Image credit: Blizzard) Like seemingly much of the Hearthstone playerbase, I consider myself a Battlegrounds main these days. So the big patch that follows a new card set has become the more exciting drop to me. Blizzard has…

[ad_1] In March of 2021, Microsoft acquired ZeniMax for $7.5B—a price which, disorientingly, now seems modest. Almost a year on, and with only Deathloop released by Bethesda since, it’s clear that the impact of corporate changes, however dramatic, take a long time to be felt by players. So if you’re hoping for an overnight shift…

[ad_1] As an avid reader of the This Week at Bungie blog, I have long since made my peace with the way Destiny 2 balance changes tend to be a mixture of ‘giveth’ and ‘confusingly taketh away’. Today’s entry, which focuses on changes to how masterwork armor and weapons function, is a perfect example of…

[ad_1] Dares of Eternity is a gameshow-themed blast, if you’re not massively underlevelled. (Image credit: Bungie) I think it’s a reasonable rule of thumb to say that forcing players into any gaming activity is a risky move. But when it comes to a sprawling live service game like Destiny 2, I can also understand the…

[ad_1] The biggest reason to run Destiny 2’s new Grasp of Avarice dungeon is because it’s a required quest step on the way to the Gjallarhorn exotic rocket launcher. But you’re going to want to keep coming back because the loot pool contains four new weapons that can roll with volcanically spicy perk combinations, including…

[ad_1] (Image credit: Bungie) The king has returned. Destiny’s most infamous exotic weapon, the Gjallarhorn rocket launcher, has been brought back into the game as part of Bungie’s 30th Anniversary event. Follow our guide and you’ll be able to unleash the full fury of Gjallarhorn’s swarming Wolfpack Round on the enemies of the Light. And…

[ad_1] How much do you trust my girlfriend? If, like me, the answer is ‘almost too much’, then you’ll be interested in these Cyber Monday gaming monitor deals—one for the US and one for the UK. You see, my other half has been using Samsung ultrawides for a few years now, and she absolutely swears…