The multiverse has been good to Magic: The Gathering. Of its recent crossover sets the big winner was The Lord of the Rings, which earned over $200 million in under six months. As Polygon pointed out at the time, that’s about twice as much as other popular Magic sets make. Fallout has apparently been a […]
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You’d think a card game with as many expansions as Magic: The Gathering would have done something as poker-adjacent as a Western set before now, but it’s taken until its 100th expansion for Magic to cowboy up. Outlaws of Thunder Junction explores a new plane full of arcane trains to rob and cactus-spider monsters to […]
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As our Tim Clark wrote when he complained about live service games wasting players’ time just to boost phoney player engagement numbers, “almost everyone reading this will be familiar with games that use predatory design in order to keep players logged in, whether that be to juice those all-important Daily Average User numbers so beloved […]
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I didn’t learn about open-source game engine Godot until last year, when its profile was raised by an extraordinary fumble from commercial game engine Unity. Now Godot is being used to make Slay the Spire 2, which instantly became one of my most highly anticipated games when it was announced this week. Slay the Spire […]
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Imagine being worried that you’d upset someone at an event so much they left, only to find out it was actually because the venue (and probably you too) stank so bad they couldn’t handle it anymore. That’s what happened at a recent Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh event, which has gone viral on Twitter after one player revealed […]
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Slay the Spire, the brilliant roguelike deckbuilder that first released in early access in 2017, is getting a sequel next year. Slay the Spire 2 was announced with a teaser video, embedded above, at the Triple-I Initiative showcase today. It’s quite a glow up: A brief but slick animated reintroduction to the Spire. Near the […]
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Slay the Spire, the brilliant roguelike deckbuilder that first released in early access in 2017, is getting a sequel next year. Slay the Spire 2 was announced with a teaser video, embedded above, at the Triple-I Initiative showcase today. It’s quite a glow up: A brief but sweet animated reintroduction to the Spire. Near the […]
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The maker of digital trading card game Champions of Otherworldly Magic says it has spent $90,000 on card art, the entirety of which has been paid to a single “AI artist” who receives $15,000 per month despite dedicating less than two full work days to the project each month. “We pay our AI artist 15,000 […]
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(Image credit: Blizzard) When Hearthstone Battlegrounds’ Duos mode was announced in November last year, Blizzard said to expect the launch in early 2024. We now know that April 16 is the day players will begin buddying up to take on lobbies. The full blog post is here. I’m a long-time enjoyer of the auto-battler spinoff, […]
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One of the mechanics coming to Magic: The Gathering in the western-themed Outlaws of Thunder Junction set is called Crime. It’s a way of rewarding outlaw behavior, with Crime specifically defined as using your spells or abilities to directly target an opponent, anything they control, or even their discards. When you do so, that’s called […]
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As We Descend, a pretty stylish-looking upcoming deckbuilder from new studio Box Dragon, will be published by Coffee Stain, the same folks publishing hits like Valheim and Deep Rock Galactic. Describing itself as a “roguelike deckbuilder with the soul of a strategy game,” As We Descend has a nice aesthetic that seems to blend magic […]
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