It’s unfortunate that Artifact was so expensive (despite being relatively cheap for a card game) because its core gameplay set up for some really interesting decision points. I think if it was free and updated constantly like Underlords it’d be doing fine.

Well said. I’ve put in about 80 hours just out of admiration for the core gameplay, which is excellent. But both constructed and draft got so stale, so fast because of the atrocious card balance and the repetitiveness of the same “win condition” cards. It also didn’t help that 2-3 patches in they realized they needed…

Now that my friends and I all have Switches and Smash Bros. Ultimate, we’ve all been playing online together. Which means that I am, for the first time in my life, a regular Smash player. In my new career playing Smash, the weirdest thing has started happening: I’ve started winning.

This is honestly the best Game of Thrones content on the web.

I’m terrified to ask this question, but which of these phones have a headphone jack?

I’m certain that nobody in the world wants Tottenham to win something more than Pochettino himself; he just wants to win the right trophies, not just any old one. And he has internalized the reality that the best way to put the club in position to win something that matters is to keep them in the Champions League.

The mayonnaise is what makes this disgusting.

Serious question: Did Magic: The Gathering ever sell in Belgium? Sports cards? How is something like that different than digital card packs as it relates to gambling?

I haven’t played this year’s FIFA but the idea of “timed” finishing on those godawful P2P connections seems like a total joke

I’ve played about 40 hours of the game since launch and I think that the gameplay is really fantastic. Beyond the $20 cost of the game, I’ve spent maybe $20 and built most of the decks I want, the process being infinitely better than that of Hearthstone. I haven’t had much trouble finding opponents yet, but it would…

Oh hey Assassin’s Creed is an open world game again. Thank God.

If anything has disadvantaged Drew Brees it is his (supposed) use of Advocare products.

The World Cup had way too many fucking penalties, including a critical one awarded after replay in the final that no ref would ever call in live time.

It’s a flexible physics engine which is obviously capable of a hell of a lot more than its boring ass sequels.

The only surprising thing about someone discovering a new way to break the physics engine of Super Smash Bros Melee is that after 17 years A GAMECUBE GAME STILL HAS THE DEEPEST PHYSICS ENGINE OF ANY GAME YOU CAN BUY IN 2018.

The Chargers’ move was certainly a disaster. But was the Rams? They already had some LA fans and were originally from there, and will move into the new stadium with what will almost certainly be a top five team that scores a ton of points.

The worst possible way to balance different characters in a competitive game is to nerf everything that’s good - then you end up with Smash Bros. Brawl.

People will always find value in this stuff, though. If you dislike it, all it takes is a little self restraint.

Not sure what you’re referring to by “free to play” card games. Try actually playing Hearthstone for a while spending $20 or less.

The setting is incredible and a new standard for open world games as a whole. But I don’t understand why they have to completely revamp the combat and controls every 2 or 3 titles. If they actually picked a scheme, stuck with it, and refined it, it wouldn’t be so clunky and awkward.