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The RNG lottery that is Overwatch Loot Boxes and Heartstone card packs is about to get a little kinder. Overwatch players have long lamented the frequency with which duplicates seem to crop up. Now game director Jeff Kaplan has said via an update video that the rate of duplicates is …

Hearthstone’s card packs are being revamped in the next expansion, with the system changing in a way that could cause substantial changes to the game’s economy. Hearthstone is the big earner in the card game space, with Superdata estimating Hearthstone made $394.6m in 2016. Most of this comes from the …

Publisher Paradox has reversed a number of price increases that were recently rolled out across its catalogue. The company last month explained that certain regions would incur an increase to make our prices match the purchasing power of those areas, as well as create a more equal price point for …

The accusation that Nintendo deliberately undersupplies its products is one the company has faced for years. However, like the majority of ‘false scarcity’ claims, it’s all very unlikely. And indeed, Nintendo of America’s senior director of corporate communications Charlie Scibetta has insisted to Ars Technica that there is nothing deliberate …

Astralis and Turtle Beach have signed a partnership that’ll see the star Counter-Strike:Global Offensive team use Turtle Beach’s Elite Pro headset as their official gaming headset. In addition, the current world champions will be involved in the future development of a new line of PC gaming headsets as part of …

Blizzard’s first ever Wild Hearthstone tournament has run afoul of visa issues, with players invited from China having trouble securing a visa to travel to the Californian-based finals.  The problems with the Hearthstone Wild Open finals have been picked up by Dot Esports, who have discovered that although Shenhaiyuyi and …

User of the Yo-Yo Games 2D engine now have option to include console licences or a complete platform package

The dust has now settled on E3 and deltaDNA CEO, Mark Robinson, responds to our opinion piece on VR at the show

Overwatch’s 1.12 patch has arrived, and it has brought several different changes to the game, including one particularly unannounced change that delivers a killing blow to colour-based aiming hacks. Aimbot is a dirty word in competitive gaming, but every game seems to have had its own struggles with cheat software, …

Betgenius and Unikrn announced Wednesday that they’ve signed a partnership that’ll see Betgenius provide the same esports market odds that it offers to Betway and Sky Bet. This means the esports focussed betting site will soon be able to take advantage of the company’s live markets for events. In a …