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Blizzard is reversing the synergy picks it implemented into Hearthstone’s Arena mode. The game’s 9.0 patch, released in August, made the first two rounds of the Arena draft offer up “synergy cards”, in addition to change the format of the Arena from Wild to Standard, with the new cards requiring …

A retail listing on Amazon France has hinted at a PC version of fighting game Injustice 2.  The listing that appeared is for the Injustice 2 Deluxe Edition, and gives no further information on a potential release date. It lists the game as a Windows version of the PS4 and …

The Sneaky Bears developer ends a new investment round with CEO of Shard Capital joining the board

EA has courted the esports crowd for a long time, with squad modes like Deathmatch, Rush and Obliteration offering a smaller scale vision of Battlefield’s 64 man squabbles more suited to competition.  Problem is, they’ve never really gained traction. Battlefield is a game about big fights: planes screaming overhead, tanks …

Steam is now restored in the area but the Early Access religious themed brawler has also been removed from the store in Malaysia

Sean Cleaver was an early adopter of The Long Dark. Now the game has come out of Early Access and Game Preview, he takes a look at the evolution of the game’s UI during the programme

According to a tweet from the publisher, the newly released game hit the player figure Saturday evening

The Golden Joystick Awards is among the most respected gaming events of the year. Not only is it the biggest publicly-voted awards show on the planet, peaking at a massive nine million votes in 2016, but it also acts as an important touchstone for the industry, marking the key trends …

Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg, just weeks after claiming he was distancing himself from racist humour, has dropped the N word in a live stream. Kjellberg, owner of the most subscribed-to channel on Youtube, was playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on a livestream when he yelled “What a f***ing n*****! Geez! Oh my god! …

PQube’s religious-themed 2D brawler Fight of the Gods has been causing chaos over in Malaysia. The game, which launched on Steam Early Access last week, sees religious and mythological figures such as Jesus, Moses, Odin, Athena and Anubis battling each other for supremacy as they fight an unknown evil. Firstly,the …