So far the only competitive mode in Hearthstone that could cost you real-world money was Arena. However, random choice card deck making doesn’t appeal to everyone, so Blizzard have announced that they’re planning to introduce a high-stakes version of the Tavern Brawl – the Heroic Brawl.

Costing around $9.99 or 1000 gold a go, the Heroic Brawl will let you use constructed decks (although restricted to Standard only) and once you’ve made a deck will stick you with your choice until you either win 12 matches or lose 3 – after which you will receive your prize. A straight 3 loss without a win will net you just one pack, while the other extreme could net you gold, dust, Legendaries and many card packs. There are either levels of prize two between these two extremes, but you can bet with the high price point the people who do take part will be very, very good at the game.

Like the Tavern Brawl, a Heroic Brawl lasts only for a week and for the weeks they take part they will replace the Tavern Brawl. There will also be a limit on how many times you can enter per week, presumably to stop people going overboard and spending a load of money – especially since children also play this game and there’s been a big storm about gambling in video games recently.

Will I take part in one? At some point in the future yes, I will probably give it a go. The idea is sound will be give time for the Tavern Brawls to rest to stop the same repeats becoming stale. I do see the cost being a bit of a barrier for people taking part too often, which again I suppose is to make sure that we don’t get the gambling problem or overspending taking place.

When Digmbot played Forza Horizons 3 on stream, he immediately noticed that there were some… issues with the game’s running on PC. To put it mildly. Seems like more people have had similar issues, because an incoming patch will hopefully improve stability across a number of PC setups.

The October 14 patch will go live at 7pm PT (3am BST) and Turn 10 say that the update will include “numerous stability and performance improvements for the game across a variety of Windows 10 PC hardware configurations, as well as fixing numerous gameplay issues to improve game stability on PC.” They also say that performance and stability will be a top priority for them and Playground Games going forward, being the focus of future updates too. So hopefully fewer crashes for PC players from now on.

Of course, other things are included in the patch and that includes your standard bug fixes, some rebalancing of certain factors and the introduction of new cars to the Tombola level-up spins.

For the full list of fixes and changes, check out the post on Forza’s site here.

So far the Halloween event that Blizzard brought into Overwatch a few days ago has been pretty well received overall, with a number of new lines, victory poses, skins and more being added into game for players to receive and play. The main part has to be the new brawl, Dr. Junkenstein’s revenge.

With four heroes on each side, the brawl has drawn some slight complaints over the restriction of which heroes can be used in game, but it’s not the first time the special event’s been limited to only certain heroes (remember Lucioball?). Otherwise it’s been pretty popular. One of the involved heroes on the attacking side is Mercy as ‘The Witch’, with a special ult war cry for the brawl: “my servants never die” which replaces the well-known “heroes never die” cry. It’s proven so popular that now a number of fans are asking for that to be Mercy’s ult war cry when the character is dressed in her Halloween skin which is The Witch.

Blizzard for their part finally weighed in on a long topic of players asking with Jeff Kaplan answering “Ok, ETA mid-Nov.”

So, if you were one of the players asking or just loved that line make sure you have Mercy’s Halloween skin before the event is over and you can hear it whenever you want. Who says big game companies don’t listen to their fans’ feedback?

One of the things that bugged people about Mafia III upon release is one of the most talked about topics in recent years concerning gaming – its framerate. Upon release it was discovered that Mafia III had been locked to just 30 frames per second, which caused more than a couple of people to ask why.

Well, the developers seem to have listened, as a new incoming patch (1.0.1) will give players the ability to uncap those framerates if they feel like they wish to. However, they’ve already warned that you might need some fairly hefty hardware to pull of 60 frames. Mafia III is an open-world game by its nature and already the game has been known to have the odd performance issue pre-patch. Hopefully some optimisation will also come with this patch, as well as future ones. The official line for the moment is “make sure to tailor the framerate settings to the power of your machine”. The patch also includes some changes to keyboard remapping, and will unfortunately reset any mapped keys you changed back to default so just be aware of that before you next turn the game on.

Future patches will begin to address fixing some of the bugs that people have been reporting around New Bordeaux, as well as adding in new features such as clothing and racing.

Following on from leaked reveals of both Overwatch’s next set of limited edition lootboxes and an upcoming comic, it seems that someone has managed to leak the current holy grail of Overwatch – they’ve posted what seems to be part of an internal Blizzard communication containing a picture of new character Sombra.

For those not in the know, Sombra has been the subject of an ongoing ARG Blizzard’s been running over the last few months, teasing clues about her. The trail which involved a lot of skull motifs and code-breaking eventually led to the site at URL amomentincrime.com which featured a countdown timer in the form of a ‘download’ that seems set to end on October 18th. What she looks like and will do has been the subject of much speculation and if this leak is genuine some of those answers might very well now be revealed – although equally it’s going to cause more speculation but isn’t that half the fun of these things?

As well, seen along the top there is a little information about a new brawl, which will involve players having to “protect the castle doors from Zomnics and Dr. Junkenstein’s evil allies”. This probably means that the brawl will see a type of horde mode with robotic attackers and whatever Dr. Junkenstein (Junkrat as a mad scientist as we saw from the comic leak) can summon. There will also be three modes of difficulty with more points earned for harder levels.

Either way, this has been a good time to be an Overwatch fan with all this exciting news emerging from the Internet. Halloween should be good fun with all this new content coming this month!