Earlier today news emerged from some corner of the Internet that Blizzard, them of World of Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft and Hearthstone fame, had supposedly registered a new trademark – Council of Glades. The Internet immediately went into cross-referencing it against every bit of game lore Blizzard had.

The news came out of MMO Champion and showed off a document registering the trademark with New Zealand’s IP office on the 25th, covering all devices a game could be made for as well as online game and news that would tie into Battle.net. With a big event in Gamescom coming up soon, it seemed we knew something we could expect to see…

… Or not. As someone pointed out over Twitter later on: it’s fake.

@Elvinelol Its a fake. The Client Reference number is the one for Warlords of Draenor and should be different

— General Brumfondl (@brumfondl) July 27, 2015

That’s disappointing, but with Gamescom still to come it does mean we can once again get back to wondering just what new wonders it’ll bring (likely to see more HS Grand Tournament cards revealed).

Game publishing giant Valve has apologised for a flaw in its Steam digital distribution platform that saw numerous accounts hijacked last week, blaming a software bug for the issue.

Valve’s Steam platform is one of the most popular distribution services around, largely thanks to its required use for the company’s own games and heavily-discounted sale prices several times a year. With millions of users, though, it’s a prime target for ne’er-do-wells – and a bug in the platform allowed many accounts to be hijacked by said wrong’uns over the last week, thanks to what Valve is claiming was a software bug.

‘On July 25th we learned of a Steam bug that could have impacted the password reset process on your Steam account during the period July 21-July 25. The bug has now been fixed,’ the company explained in an email sent to users whose passwords had been changed – legitimately or otherwise – during the period. ‘To protect users, we are resetting passwords on accounts that changed passwords during that period using the account recovery wizard. You will receive an email with your new password. Once that email is received, it is recommended that you login to your account via the Steam client and set a new password.’

The company has stated that the original password was never revealed to the attackers, and neither was any internal system compromised: the flaw was limited to an issue with the account recovery wizard, which allowed attackers to reset the password for any account without access to the account’s original email address. Those who use Steam Guard, the company’s two-factor authentication system, were protected even if the password was changed, Valve has added.

Those who have received the email are advised to reset their passwords in order to regain access to their accounts, and to check for any unauthorised activity while the account was in another’s control.

Another Steam bug recently surfaced that let users reset passwords for accounts they did not own. Fortunately Valve were quick off the mark in fixing it, but not before a number of people lost access to their accounts for a few hours.

The issue was dependent on the knowledge of the account’s username, and since that is common knowledge it was easy enough to get password resets sent for accounts. Unsurprisingly a large number of more well known people such as streamers and Youtubers were affected by this, although thanks to a previous change that implemented a five-day ban on trading from accounts that change password or e-mail there was no mass looting of digital items from accounts affected and the majority of people now have back their own accounts.

If you’re interested, a user on Reddit made a video detailing exactly how it worked:

The Summer Split is over, and the SMITE Pro League Season 2 Summer Finals are upon us. Eight teams from North America and eight from Europe have battled it out since May, and now the top 3 from each division have assembled in Alpharetta, Georgia for their shot a portion of the $171,500 prize pool. In addition, all teams who qualify for the Summer LAN will be invited to the Fall Split. Fall Split will undoubtedly be the most important of the year, getting teams closer to the SMITE World Championships.

The tournament will follow a best of 5 format with quarterfinals, semifinals and a finals set. Teams Titan and AFK Gaming have secured seminfinals slots already based on performance in the Summer Split. The other teams will need to play through all sets to make it to the finals, and the losers of the Semifinals will compete for third place in a best of 3.

Everything kicks off at 1PM EST on July 24 and runs through till July26. The Summer Finals will be broadcast on the official Smite twitch HERE.

Last night brought us the answer to what the new Hearthstone thing Blizzard had been teasing actually was. The Grand Tournament aims to add over 130 new cards to the game and we saw at least 15 during that hour and a half of announcement livestream. Now 3 more have been revealed, and one is quite the card.

Firstly we have Silver Hand Regent which makes use of the new Inspire effect that triggers when you use your Hero Power. She summons a Silver Hand Recruit at 1/1 and what makes her interesting is that it seems she is a Neutral card so now any class could possibly have access to the Silver Hand Recruits.

Next we have Garrison Commander who is one of the new cards introduced to work with your Hero Power, allowing you to use it twice on your turn. Again this is a Neutral card and decent mana cost and Attack/Life means that it certainly looks like a valuable addition to a deck.

And finally we have the most interesting reveal of all, a new Legendary – Justicar Trueheart. With a Battlecry effect that changes your Hero Power to a slightly more powerful version of itself, this card could really liven up play. It’s uncertain whether the upgraded Hero Power is a match-permanent effect or if it reverts back to normal when Justicar Trueheart is removed from play. It also won’t have any effect on Hero Powers that have already been altered in some way (I assume they mean made cheaper or powered up in some way).

Stay tuned to Sanitarium.FM for more card reveals as they are made public!