The mobile version of Hearthstone has been delayed Blizzard have announced today.

The PC and iPad versions are long since out and the game has already surpassed 20 million players worldwide, but Blizzard have said that they will need more time to adapt the game to work properly on the smaller mobile screens, even though the Android tablet version should still release at the end of the year.

“We’re… close to having Hearthstone out to our iPhone and Android phone users, but it’s become clear that we need a little more time to get that version right. While we have a build up and running internally, it needs a bit more work, and we don’t feel like we’ll be ready to share it with you until early next year.”

It seems that the problem is that because a maximum of 14 cards can be on the playing field at a time, keeping the text on the cards legible on a small screen has thrown a minor spanner into the works. A straight port would just have the text much too small to be read and Blizzard want to make sure the user interface is as good as the other versions before they release the game on Android phones and iOS.

“Releasing Hearthstone on iPhone and Android phones is something we’re incredibly excited about, but ultimately we’d rather take the extra time to make Hearthstone’s user interface on the phone customized to feel great for the platform, rather than a port that doesn’t take into account the limitations of a smaller screen.”

The Nielsen Ratings are pretty important media-wise. For those unaware, its the name given to the ratings that determine how popular a television series is by how many people are watching. It could mean the difference between another series of a show or its cancellation.

Nowadays though, more and more people are taking to the Internet to watch their entertainment and not all of it comes from the big media companies anymore. Sites such as Youtube have made it easier than ever for anyone to make their own media to broadcast around the world, so where does a TV ratings company fit into this new order?

Well Nielswn have teamed up with Adobe in a joint venture to attempt to find out where the attention online is really going; to the news websites, the funny videos, the social media or the blogs. The system is estimated to go live sometime in 2015, with Sony, ESPN and Viacom all saying they’ll be signing up already.

According to Respawn Entertainment, the “biggest” update for Titanfall is on it’s way. And it will include some interesting new additions.

To start with, players that are all about competitive play will now have a Ranked Play mode that will give you challenges and rate you on a 3 star system based on your performance in each match. The real meat of the patch, however, is the new Frontier Defense mode. Frontier defense is a horde mode style wave defense. You can join forces with three other players and fight to defend an objective against waves of AI opponents. Players will be able to change loadouts mid-match at new Loadout Crates as well as raining death from above after death, as they return to the battlefield in a dropship. Respawn promises new, never before seen enemy types in Frontier Defense as well. Suicide Spectres, Nuclear Titans, ranged Mortar Titans and more will do their best to make sure you and your teammates have a bad day.

In addition to the new modes, there are new Titan OS voices coming, as well as Private Match Burn Cards, new Titan Insignias and the ability to bring up a full screen minimap. Two new game modes, Deadly Ground and Marked For Death Pro were also announced. Deadly Ground sees the floor covered in deadly electric fog, forcing pilots to use their wall running skills wisely. Marked For Death Pro is a classic round-based version of Marked For Death. A host of other improvements are being added to the back-end of the game as well.

Are you excited to fall again? Or are you over the giant mech/pilot parkour fest?

Its been a long road for the teams fighting to reach the Smite North American LAN Tournament. Grueling weeks of competition all leading up to a chance to compete for a prize pool currently worth over $1 million dollars. For those teams that didn’t perform well enough to guarantee a slot, there is still a chance to get in via the Wildcard series. Unfortunately, for Team Five Angry Men, that chance has just been swept aside. Following questioning from some members of the eSports team, and an investigation by the Hi-Rez Admin team, it has been discovered that in Week 7 (oct 11, 2014) Team Acceleration “threw” their match against Five Angry Men.

Apparently, this was orchestrated by team manager “Clow” in order to improve their chances against VishusNDelishus. Upon examining the chat logs, it was discovered that members of Five Angry Men and Acceleration had in fact been in contact before the game, discussing a “fix”.  As a result, Five Angry Men have been stipped of their winnings in weeks 7 of the Challenger’s Cup and have been discqualified form the Wildcard event in North America. Team Acceleration meanwhile, will be stripped of all wins in week 7 as well as receiving a one year suspension of competition eligibility, to be lifted on Oct 21, 2105. This affects Jellly, oddtunes, mystx, radiomyst and dre10, collectively referred to as Team Acceleration.

The Wildcard will proceed with 3 teams.

Hi-Rez’s full log of the incident can be found here.

Five Nights at Freddy’s became an almost overnight hit. This was down to coverage on Youtube by content creators with big userbases and its fairly unique mechanics – you couldn’t move, only fend off the homicidal animatronics as they came for you. And despite hints, we never found out if they were faulty or haunted…

There’s going to be a sequel too, for which creator Scott Cawthon has been releasing teaser images at a steady rate. And now? We have a trailer and a handful of screencaps to boot.

Let’s hope that this time, we’re ready for Freddy… both of them…