Harvard University is one of the most respected educational institutes in the United States, with a storied history that stretches all the way back to the mid-17th century. It has produced eight US Presidents, more than any other school in the country, and has one of the top Nobel Laureate affiliation rates in the world....
Sky Temple brings Heroes of the Storm back to more traditional MOBA action, with a more typical layout and map objective than Blackheart’s Bay. Teams fight NPC guardians and each other for control of temples which, when controlled, attack enemy structures. A large three lane map, with five mercenary camps scattered between lanes, Sky Temple...
The Overwatch beta patch that came out a couple of days ago made some big changes to the game, including the addition of an intriguing new game mode called Weekly Brawls. Similar to Hearthstone’s Tavern Brawls, they’ll feature unique, and sometimes very unusual, rules that will be rotated on a weekly basis. Blizzard mentioned two...
With a new card from Hearthstone’s Whispers of the Old Gods expansion being revealed almost every day, and over 100 still to go, I decided to hold off analysis until seeing more of the set. But it’s worth making an exception for each of the Old Gods themselves, as they already seem like the most...
The Overwatch beta has undergone some big changes thanks to a “massive content patch” that rolled out today. The update adds a new Escort map called Route 66, and a “Weekly Brawl” play mode that rotates in new rules from Blizzard’s Custom Game system on a weekly basis. Taking inspiration from Hearthstone’s Tavern Brawls, Weekly...
Blizzard has announced some big changes coming to Heroes of the Storm in the next patch. Draft lobbies are being given an “epic visual overhaul” in the next patch, including new background art, animated hero models and portraits, and updated selection animations, and hero bans in ranked play and custom games are finally on the...
Me, not IRL. This weekend the World of Warcraft servers were overrun by enthusiastic idiots. I know this, because I was one of them. My fellow scrubs and I had been lured to Azeroth by Lady Liadren, a female blood elf. More specifically, by an offer from Blizzard’s marketing team that if we levelled any...
On the off-chance you’re not up to speed on this whole Warcraft thing, these are the basics: You’ve got humans on one side, and you’ve got orcs on the other. And they tend not to get along very well, see. But that’s more to do with deep-rooted cultural differences, and the sort of misunderstandings that...
A new Hearthstone expansion is always cause for celebration, because new cards mean an instant refresh of the metagame, which otherwise tends to go stale after a few months. The next expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods, will see 134 new cards injected into the game, many of which are focused around threats from ancient multi-tentacled evil superpowers living...
A new Gosu Gamers report paints a rather bleak picture of the pro Hearthstone scene in China, which it says is wracked by cheating, primarily in the form of win-trading and pay-to-legend. The problem isn’t unique to China—the report makes note of a couple of high-profile incidents involving Western players—but it’s particularly endemic in China because...
