Today’s the day for asserting issues that aren’t what we had been hoping for.
Valve debuted a brand new sport at Dota 2’s 2017 championship, The International, right this moment. Called Artifact: The Dota Card Game, it’s a collectible card sport (CCG) set within the Dota 2 world, and can launch someday in 2018.
Valve didn’t share many particulars on the sport however the early description sounds fairly difficult. There are three boards, and mechanics embody lanes, creep and barrack constructing.
Naturally, when Valve stated it was asserting a brand new sport that wasn’t strictly Dota, everybody acquired tremendously excited, though we’ve all been via this many, many occasions earlier than. Will Valve ever launch the third sport in a trilogy? Probably not.
Iron Brigade and Massive Chalice lead Brad Muir is engaged on Artifact, in line with a tweet from the previous Double Fine designer.
Here’s a teaser trailer for Artifact:
The announcement will, in fact, draw comparisons to Blizzard’s Hearthstone. Since Blizzard’s MOBA, Heroes of the Storm, is considerably much less profitable than Dota 2, it’ll be fascinating to see if Valve can compete with Hearthstone, which is massively profitable.
Although Magic the Gathering and Mojang’s Scrolls predate it, Hearthstone – or extra precisely the oodles of cash it makes – has positively opened the door for digital CCGs to change into an actual factor. CD Projekt RED introduced Gwent out of the Witcher and into the true world, Bethesda’s acquired The Elder Scrolls Legends, and there are a great deal of non-licensed examples like Eternal, Shadowverse and Duelyst.
CCG mechanics are even creeping into different genres, together with shooters. Warframe developer Digital Extremes has Keystone and simply right this moment Gearbox announced Project 1v1, as a substitute of cracking on with Borderlands three.
Card video games and never ending trilogies: these are right this moment’s information themes, apparently.
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