Just over a week ago at BlizzCon 2016, Blizzard showed off the next expansion for Hearthstone – Mean Streets of Gadgetzan. They revealed a number of cards during the event itself, but in the lead up to the December release Blizzard are slowly drip feeding us more of the 100+ new cards we can expect to receive through the new card packs.

Here are the ones that have been revealed in the last week, put together into Classes:

Paladin

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Hunter

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Rogue

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Warrior

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Tri-Class

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Neutral

As you can probably see, even now there haven’t yet been any cards revealed that are specifically for either Warlock or Shaman decks – a bit of an oddity because you usually expect a fairly even spread of reveals. However looking at what has been revealed so far leads me to think that they’re planning to do the reveals per criminal family, which would account for the big numbers of Paladin, Hunter and Warrior cards revealed in this week’s batch as well as the two tri-class being Grimy Goon tri-classes. Another thing that bears this out is that a sizeable amount of these cards have some sort of a buffing effect on friendly minions – usually randomly chosen ones and often from the hand it seems. I can already see myself using Stolen Goods and Alley Armorsmith in an update to my Iron Wall Warrior deck, as well as Smuggler’s Run in the update to my Tiny Terrors deck I will have to do once The Grand Tournament cards leave Standard in early 2017.

On the Neutral side, I see Dirty Rat being a good count for opponents who wish to play down minions in a certain order. If the right random minion goes down, it could throw off a strategy and force a quick rethink. Sounds just like the sort of ‘underhanded’ thing you’d expect from cards of this expansion. Dopplegangster (as well as being another good punny name) kind of reminds me of the Grim Patron with its ability to spawn two copies of itself upon being played – but obviously with slightly less ability to get crazily out of control and much easier to deal with as well as each of the 3 minions summoned are 2/2!

We’ll see what reveals next week hold for us, and if Blizzard begin to refocus them onto one of the other gangs.

In celebration of Halo’s 15th anniversary, 343 Industries announced on their Halo Waypoint site that a stream was going to be held to commemorate the occasion. And the Internet being the Internet are already talking over possible news, taking cues from the teaser that was put out for the stream:

Those familiar with the soundtracks of the past games have noticed some familiar piano chords towards the end, pinpointing them as being part of the Halo 3 OST. This obviously has fuelled speculation that the stream will be used to reveal a remaster of that game. Either way, you can expect to hear something about Halo Wars 2 and probably Halo 5 as well during the stream.

The stream will occur on Tuesday, November 15th at 3:43PT and will celebrate both the birthday of the original Halo: Combat Evolved game and Halo 2 which released 12 years ago on November 9th.

“The studio is working on a number of cool things to help celebrate this huge milestone which also happens to coincide with the 15^th anniversary of Xbox itself. Mark your calendars now and please plan to join us throughout the day as we collectively celebrate and offer a huge thanks to our community for supporting Halo for 15 years!”

After some details of the expansion were released publicly a few weeks back, Warframe’s newest content was released yesterday in The War Within expansion pack for the game.

The War Within continues the story that was left off in the previously released expansion The Second Dream, as well as adding a new battle mode, new weapons and much more to the game. Remember that the cinematics will put your characters into them as well, so if you want to looking good can become a new priority in-game. Developers Digital Extremes has put out a release trailer for the expansion to demonstrate what players old and new can come to expect.

Check it out below:

VR headsets are a big thing right now, but while the video quality has gotten better and the simulation of ‘hands’ a lot less clunky over time there still remains one big ‘issue’ for VR headsets and they have to do with cables. Most headsets still need them because streaming just can’t handle the amount of visual data needed to simulate a fluid and responsive experience. After all, if done poorly VR headsets can easily make you feel sick.

Some companies are working to eliminate the need for cables though, and one such company TPCAST showed off their wireless adaptor accessory for the HTC Vive at the offices of Chinese internet vendor Alibaba yesterday:

The unit straps to the headset and receives video data and transmits accelerometer data, and apparently has been described as so low latency doing this that it makes “no noticeable difference” in the experience. They are one of several companies who currently working with Valve and HTC to work on wireless technology for Vive.

The doors for pre-orders were opened today to customers and sold through the first batch in just 18 minutes, at $220 per unit. Not bad. A second set of pre-orders for the accessory will be coming next month.

Squad is a very large-scale multiplayer shooter game that’s currently in Steam’s Early Access program. It aims to simulate realistic modern warfare in which both sides have fairly large sides and you need to be constantly vigilanet (with respawning obviously helping to make it seem like both armies are larger than they really are). The game is a spiritual successor to a widely-loved mod for Battlefield 2, Project Reality, and the indie studio behind it grew from the Project Reality team.

Now the game is going to have its first ever free weekend in a bid to attract the players numbers needed to make such large-scale battles work, because you can’t have a fight with 100 players if not that many people are around to join games after all. The game will remain like this until Sunday, November 13th at 1pm Pacific Time, or 9pm UK time. The game is also currently on sale at half its usual selling price and that will last even longer – until Monday 10am Pacific or 5pm UK time.

If you’re not familiar with Squad already, it features vehicle-based combat, combined arms gameplay, large-scale battle environments, voice audio proximity for talking and radio chatter and even base building so you can set up camp. If that sounds like something you could get into, check out Squad’s Steam page to try it out. Then if you like it, take advantage of the £14.99 UK or $19.99 US price to keep it for good.