Sometimes for all the terrible stuff we hear about gamers in the news, both mainstream and from gaming-related places, it’s nice to know that some people give gamers a good name.

The video above is a gif that an Overwatch player posted to Reddit, wanting to show off his Play of the Game as Reinhardt. As you can tell, their machine wasn’t exactly top of the line which is one reason why they were so happy with their being awarded Play of the Game.

“I run Overwatch on a potato so it’s hard to get a good [Play of the Game], but when I do it is satisfying,” he wrote.

For those unaware, people tend to describe tech as a ‘potato’ when it’s really old. Most of the time it’s hyperbole but this player might have had a point. He has to play the game at 800×600 with all settings at low to get the game running, and even then he apparently is excited to hit 30fps. His specs included an AMD Radeon 8400 with only 512 mb of RAM, which is 200 mb short of Overwatch’s minimum requirements to run the game. It’s a miracle that the game has been running, but there was a Youtuber called LowSpecGamer who had a guide that has allowed the player to run it so far.

Anyway, a few hours later he checked Reddit to find that a number of replies had come in and some were offering him replacement computer parts to help him better run the game. “What GPU do you have? I have an EVGA 660 I could send you,” wrote one player. When there were questions about whether the power supply would be able to handle it, someone else offered him one that could. And it went on and on.

Of course, he has decided not to just rely on the donations and with the help of another Redditor he is picking out a few other parts to help him bring together his new build that are within his small budget. Thanks to the generosity of the Overwatch community though, the biggest expense will be Windows 10 – everything else more expensive has already been covered.

“I’m at a loss for words. Watching a community band together just to help one person, if this all works out and I end up getting this new PC I’ll probably break down crying.”

As I said at the beginning of this article, we so often hear about the bad that sometimes good news is very welcome. GG Overwatch Reddit community.

Gaming events are very popular right now. Like science-fiction conventions, people will buy tickets and turn up to browse the merchandise on offer, see the game studios’ latest projects, meet with friends and just generally have a great time. There’s really nothing like it. Unfortunately they don’t always go to plan.

GamerCon Dublin is a two-day event that is happening right now and billed itself as “Ireland’s largest gaming event” but today ticket holders were left queuing outside in the wind and rain before being turned away at the door being told that the event was ‘too full’ for them to enter.

@ferdi_roberts @GamerCon_Europe “people were not expected to spend the whole day” oh. Sorry about that. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? #GamerConDublin pic.twitter.com/2ojylzwjgq

— [ Sparda’s Angel ] (@LPgirl612) March 18, 2017

While it is possible for events to oversell ticket numbers for a venue and still be able to manage, reports are coming in that the venue was only meant for 7,000 people and yet over 3 times that were sold with reports of around 24-25,000 tickets having been sold. There are also reports coming in from people who are queuing or have already been turned away that no one is currently managing the queues, and that the line was out there for 4-5 hours before being turned away by convention staff calling the crowd ‘unprecedented’.

What’s more, some people have looked into the terms & conditions for the ticket sales and are now accusing the company behind the event, GamerCon Europe, of having changed them to read that entry was no guaranteed and that there would be no refunds. Since then GamerCon have tweeted out that they are trying to get the crowds moving as quickly as possible and said that full refunds for the tickets would be given.

Apologies for severe delays, we are working through the Queue as quickly as poss. Refund requests processed here https://t.co/pUCXnbREjX

— GamerCon (@GamerCon_Europe) March 18, 2017

In a statement they said: “As a first time event we underestimated the traffic flow that we forecast for the event and have very strict health and safety related capacities which we must adhere to. That temporarily impacted our ability to process the queue which resulted in longer than expected wait time for our attendees. We are managing this proactively and expect the situation to ease as the day progresses.

We have offered full refunds to those who decide not to attend and have communicated this to attendees via mobile app and all social media channels.”

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been in the news so often for the wrong reasons, it’s nice when some news comes out that reminds us that it’s still a game with an active (and mostly behaving!) community of players.

Now some datamining by KordGamer on Reddit suggests that the game might be about to get its eighth operation event, and we could even know which maps it’ll be taking place on. Using a Flash decomplier KordGamer managed to locate an image from the game’s files. It’s similar to the ones used in the game to illustrate the maps in each playlist, but doesn’t match any of the current ones as well as having the title “mapgroup-op08” – which it a big hint towards this eighth operation event coming.

Although the eight fragments are hard to make out which maps they are, someone’s already identified seven of them as de_thrill, cs_agency, de_shipped, de_lite, de_blackgold, de_austria, and cs_insertion. A Steam community thread tracking clues to the eighth Operation suggests that cs_concert might also be among the new maps, although it’s not for certain yet though.

The first operation event was Operation Payback in April 2013, and since then there’s been many more. The reason the community looks forward to them so much is that operations are events that feature and make use of some of the most popular user-created content for the game found on the Steam Workshop. The last one wrapped in July of last year, so it’s about time for another. Participation in these events is paid, with some of the proceeds going back to the creators of community content.

Blizzard put on a Hearthstone livestream today, hosted by Senior Game Designer Peter Whalen and streamer Sean ‘Day9’ Plott, in which eleven of the upcoming new Un’Goro cards were revealed to the public.

Three of these cards were spells, with one in particular being the Warlock ‘quest’ card for the expansion – and we got to see its Reward card too.

And when played, the Nether Portal takes up one space on your board, summoning two 3/2 Imps each turn:

The other eight cards were all Minions of different types, and uniquely one had two states alive and ‘dormant’ with a means of switching between the two:

The final Minion was a Legendary and sees the return of Elise from The League of Explorers, a new adventure and a new ability to boot:

We were told that because of Elise’s ‘luck’ factor, the five cards we can expect to get from the pack (while still being randomised) have a better chance of being Epic or Legendary than your standard pack you would open outside the matches. Of course, these five are temporary only to the game you’re playing Elise and the Un’Goro Pack card in – so no freebies unfortunately.

We got a little further information about Un’Goro too, namely that each class will have a Quest card each, as well as a new Legendary Minion each too. As you can see above, Hunter’s will be Swamp King Dred whom was given a demonstration video during the livestream in which he went to town on a number of Murloc Tinyfins (much to Day9’s growing distress).

We can expect further reveals leading up to the expansion’s release in early April, including another livestream next week.