HomeGuidesHearthstone Pirate Galakrond Warrior deck list guide - Ashes of Outland - Hearthstone (April 2020)Galakrond is the Ancharrr of this deck. Galakrond is the Ancharrr of this deck. Pirate Galakrond Warrior is a take on the Pirate Warrior archetype which includesGalakrond, the Unbreakable. It plays fairly similarly to the otherPirate Warriorlists we’ve seen in the current meta, but it utilises the Galakrond synergies we’ve enjoyed so much. The 5/2 weapon gained from a fully Invoked Galakrond acts as another source of damage, and the +4/+4 you obtain through playingGalakrond, the Unbreakableoffers the opportunity for devastating burst damage late on....

HomeReviewsGood Company Premature Evaluation: Good CompanyBuild a better roomba Build a better roomba Developer:Chasing CarrotsPublisher:The Irregular Corporation Release:Out nowOn:WindowsFrom:SteamFor:£20, $25, €23 Good Companyis a tycoon factory builder in which you play the role of lead architect, CEO and engineer of a series of growing electronics startups. It’s vaguely set somewhere in the golden age of American innovation, back in the mid 20th century when General Electric wasn’t the slowly desiccating corporate megalith it is today, but rather was at the bleeding edge of invention, its research and development departments attracting the brightest engineers from around the world to come up with brand new ways to make toast....

HomeNewsValorant Riot’s new game Valorant is already breaking Fortnite’s recordsIt’s in closed beta now It’s in closed beta now There are currently 1.7 million people watchingValoranton Twitch, which means it’s matched the game streaming platform’s all-time record for the number of people watching a single game at the same time. That’s not bad when you consider the previous record holder was Fortnite, a global phenomenon, andValoranthas only just entered closed beta....

HomeFeaturesLegends of Runeterra Runeterra’s emotes are exactly as rude as they should beDon’t get emote-tional Don’t get emote-tional I’m still playingLegends of Runeterra, Riot’s card-me-do set in the world ofLeague Of Legends. It remains quite good, albeit deeply familiar. The emotes elevate it. Like most everything about Runeterra, the emotes are nothing new. You click a button at the bottom left of the screen, and up pops a bloke doing a cheery wave, or a ruminating gnome, or a furry creature who is sad and small....

HomeNews Steam would’ve missed out on many successes if it hadn’t opened up, Valve claimWarning: GRAPHS Warning: GRAPHS The Steamlords at Valve have rummaged in their reams of data and emerged with a new blog post talking about what the growth of Steam (and the number of games on Steam) has meant for developers. Coming up with a questionable definition of “success”, they note that Steam in 2019 saw three times as many games earning $10,000 in their first fortnight compared to Steam in 2013....

HomeFeaturesWitchbrook 5 things I demand from Witchbrook, Chucklefish’s new magical Stardew-likeNay, humbly request Nay, humbly request This is exciting to me. I like games like this, and am also a HP fan (Hufflepuff; unofficial merch only). Witchbrook doesn’t have a release date yet, as Chucklefish are operating on an it’s-done-when-it’s-done-and-no-crunch policy, but the new screenshots show off a very detailed, very beautiful world. And having no set release date means they have plenty of time to put in all the features that I, their number one customer, insist upon!...

HomeGuidesHearthstone Beast Hunter deck list guide - Ashes of Outland - Hearthstone (April 2020)Our starter guide to playing the Beast Hunter deck in the Ashes of Outland meta. Our starter guide to playing the Beast Hunter deck in the Ashes of Outland meta. Beast - or Midrange - Hunter is a deck that’s been popular inHearthstonesince time immemorial. It takes advantage of the Hunter class' great many animals, and the ability for them to buff each other as they hunt in packs....

HomeNewsMinecraft It looks totally magical Holy Hogwarts, look at this entire dang Harry Potter-themed RPG built insideMinecraft. This mod hasbeen in the works for a while, building on a huge Hogwarts Minecraft build from several years back. What I enjoy most is how reminiscent it is of the (not great, as I remember) Harry Potter games of the earliest aughts. The entire modded adventure is now available to play alone or with pals....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Handlock deck list guide - Ashes of Outland - Hearthstone (April 2020)Ebon-lock-e your opponent out of the game. Ebon-lock-e your opponent out of the game. Handlock is aHearthstonedeck that has had a place in the game’s meta for a long time now. It may no longer be the powerhouse it once was, but it certainly caused problems whenGenn Greymanerefreshed the archetype for The Witchwood expansion. Since that card was doomed to the Hall of Fame, things looked pretty bad for the archetype....

HomeFeaturesMiddle-earth: Shadow of War Have you played… Middle-earth: Shadow Of War?One free-flowing combat system to rule them all One free-flowing combat system to rule them all With Middle-earth: Shadow Of Mordor, I thought, “This is it. They’ve perfected Arkham-style combat. It can’t get better than this.” WithMiddle-earth: Shadow Of War, I realised how mistaken I’d been. Just to make sure, I went back and reinstalledBatman: Arkham City, which I fondly remembered to have some of the most jaw-droppingly brilliant combat I’d ever seen at the time....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Malygos Rogue deck list guide - Ashes of Outland - Hearthstone (April 2020)Our guide to climbing the ladder with Malygos Rogue in the Ashes of Outland meta. Our guide to climbing the ladder with Malygos Rogue in the Ashes of Outland meta. MalygosRogue is a deck that seeks to gather plenty of spell damage cards together, get the titularMalygoscard in-hand as well, and then use its devastating damage-boosting effect to obliterate the opponent’s health pool....

HomeNews Now Play This livestreamed virtual field trips and hiking tours last weekendDigital walkabouts Digital walkabouts There are several neat presentations from Now Play This At Home this year. There’s a bit of improv comedy. Twitch chat plays chess. It’s all fitting with the year’s “breaking point” theme, which they say “celebrates playful creators who break, subvert or remix the rules of the games they make and play.” Gareth Damian Martin, whose name you may recognize from his new underwater adventureIn Other Waters,leads a groupalong a newNo Man’s Skyplanet hunting for snaps....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Quest Druid deck list guide - Ashes of Outland - Hearthstone (April 2019)How to get started with Quest Druid in the Ashes of Outland meta. How to get started with Quest Druid in the Ashes of Outland meta. Quest Druid, in Standard format, is a deck built around the Saviors of Uldum Quest card:Untapped Potential. It requires you to end 4 turns with unspent mana, for which you are rewarded with a permanentFandral Staghelmeffect that replaces your Hero Power....