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

—

Hunter

—

Rogue

—

Warrior

—

Tri-Class

—

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!”

Dishonored 2 is a hotly anticipated game, thats for sure. A handful of gamers have been able to play it a day early, including myself. I am sad to say however, that the PC version of the game has excessively bad performance issues. While I could detail them all in text, video speaks louder than words. 

Titanfall 2 may have been out for a while now, but it takes a while to get an accurate impression of a game that has such a huge multiplayer component. Fortuantely for you, instead of writing a 50,000 word review, I’ve decided to make it a video instead. So you can watch giant robots punch shit AND get educated about the game! 

COD: Infinite Warfare’s not had a great launch. After the news that the included Modern Warfare Remastered game wouldn’t work without the Infinite Warfare disc for those who had bought the physical copies of the double-game set, it was revealed that for some reason Activision was against cross-platform play. Xbox One and Windows Store players cannot play together and neither can Windows Store and Steam players.

The utter ridiculousness of the situation has just been highlighted in the news that one Windows Store gamer has managed to get a refund on his game. The reason? Because when he went to look for a Deathmatch game he discovered that very few other players were also currently online in the world. How many other players? One.

That’s right. He was one of only two players in the world at that moment looking for an online match.

No matter what you think of Windows Store, you’ve got to admit that Activision’s decision to disallow any sort of cross-platform or even cross-digital distribution interaction is not helping Infinite Warfare any – and this is the game that’s been pretty much an unfavoured child to the series ever since the fans first saw its announcement trailer.

No wonder they wouldn’t allow people to trade in the disc.