Hearthstone, Blizzard’s online trading card game, will get an iPhone and Android port next year, Blizzard just announced. The open beta for the game starts next month.

Blizzard’s Heroes Of The Storm Looks Spectacular

During the opening ceremonies of BlizzCon 2013, Blizzard showed off the latest gameplay footage for the all-star MOBA they are calling Blizzard: The Game, Heroes of the Storm. That looks spectacular. Almost as good as the cinematic trailer Blizzard opened the Heroes of the Storm segment with. Beta signups for the game should be live…

Brothers, Plus and LIVE Discounts, Tearaway, Eneloop Pack [Deals]

New deals abound and great deals from yesterday persist. For your weekend gaming fix, pick up the excellent Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, which occupies Game of the Year shortlists for many a game journalist. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons [Steam] ($9) | GreenmanGaming | Use code GMG20-P6Y1F-KC19F Don’t forget to put in…

GameStop Is Super Helpful, Reminds You To Get Xbox Live For Your PS4

The new consoles are coming, and GameStop’s monthly newsletter for November has several helpful suggestions for launch day accessories that’ll maximize your PlayStation 4 experience, like additional controllers, the new Eye Camera, and a relatively useless small plastic rectangle. Pointed out to us by several readers and appearing in my own inbox (I’m a Rewards…

The Hunger Games Recreated With Cats That Don’t Care

Cats don’t care that these children are forced to fight each other for others’ amusement. They don’t care about how cute Jennifer Lawrence is. They also don’t care that you think Battle Royale was better (it was). But they’re still the stars of this speed run through the general plot by The Pet Collective. They’re…

A Turn-Based RPG Inspired By Final Fantasy Tactics

Today in Kickstarters That Look Pretty Cool, here’s Gridlock Tactics, a “biopunk” role-playing game whose creators say they were inspired by the likes of Final Fantasy Tactics and Disgaea The people behind Gridlock Tactics—some of whom worked at Beenox, the studio behind the last few Spider-Man games—want $50,000 to make it happen. They hope to…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Rathorial calls numeric progression a Last-Gen Zero and says that a lot of RPGs from the last console cycle used numbers the wrong way. In DamsonRhee’s house, the Xbox 360 is a Last-Gen Zero. Man, look at that Wario! I hope someone from Nintendo is…

Blizzard Turned StarCraft II Players Into Trading Cards

Further proving that eSports is all grown up and should be recognized as a real sport, Blizzard created a deck of StarCraft II trading cards. Baseball and basketball players have trading cards—why shouldn’t these guys have at least a few? The cards you see above will be handed out to lucky attendees during the game’s…

Sony Viral Teases Something Street Fighter For The PlayStation 4

Packed with references to Capcom’s famous fighting game franchise and tagged with the #4ThePlayers hashtag, this viral video from Sony seems to indicate something Street Fighter is happening on the PlayStation 4, but what? VG24/7 looks to have been the first to post the “Hadouken Cabs” viral this morning, sent to them in an email…

Veteran Game Dev Risks Health for 80-Hour Charity Gaming Session

You probably shouldn’t try this at home. Leave it to the professionals—like Billy Joe Cain. Cain’s been in the gaming industry for about twenty years, during which he worked on games for Origin Systems and Electronic Arts. He also set up a world record (several of them, in fact) playing the 1980 arcade game Defender—a…