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In the ‘rather cool’ news today, one streamer’s quest to do a thing just because they can.
Streamer Billyisms has embarked in a quest that he is currently showcasing on his Twitch and Youtube channels – become the first person ever to reach Legend ranking in Hearthstone without ever using his hands. This means no mouse, no keyboard and no touchscreen. Instead, he’s playing Blizzard’s card game using only his voice. That’s actually pretty cool.
No idea how well it’s going to work, but voice controls for Hearthstone and other similar cards would be an awesome way for those with disabilities affecting hands and arms to play the game. Maybe this should be an actual supported mod for the game, if not a proper part of it?
Either way, head on over to Billyisms Twitch and/or Youtube if you wish to watch his attempt at becoming the first handless-Legend in Hearthstone!
If you ever fall victim to a scam on Steam in the future and end up losing in-game items as a result of it, bad news I’m afraid. Valve have now shifted their position on item recovery; basically saying they will no longer do it.
“We sympathize with people who fall victim to scams, but we provide enough information on our website and within our trading system to help users make good trading decisions. All trade scams can be avoided.” Valve said about the change, also noting that rollback that add more of an item to the pool of items decreases the rarity of the items in question.
They have a point I must admit, but something about this still makes me feel a little uneasy. Maybe that’s me just seeing the negative though.
World of Warcraft has now been around for about ten years. In that time a lot of accounts have been created and with it, a lot of characters too. That means a lot of names so creating new ones must see some difficulties in getting a unique name on your character.
However Blizzard are planning to fix this by reclaiming character names from accounts that have been inactive for a period. The reclaim will come with the implementation of patch 6.2.
The accounts will be ones that haven’t been accessed since December 7th 2010, so if you’ve any names you’d want to keep on an old account make sure you log in before June 24th to be able to keep them.
“Our goal with this great name liberation is to make sure new and returning players have a large and varied pool of names available to choose from,” Blizzard wrote on the World of Warcraft blog. “So log in now if you wish to preserve your unused characters’ names for your ongoing journey through Draenor.”
Currently a Kickstarter for a first-person horror game that involves a blind girl is drawing to a close. It has said girl exploring through a haunted manor and to help push towards that goal of $150,000 the developers, Deep End Games, have released a new game play trailer.
Cassie, the girl in the game uses a form of echolocation to help her find the way around the world and it sounds like a decent concept for the game. Another gameplay mode called ‘Mode 7’ will also be unveiled by the developers as part of this last push towards target.
The Kickstarter wraps at 6am PDT June 25th. Click the link below if you’re interested in backing.
Riot have put up a new video teaser for an upcoming champion for League of Legends – the River King.
A giant fishy monster, the trailer also features a fable involving a character called the ‘Gambler’ whom players are speculating the possible identity of. Some think he’s actually the champion Twisted Fate.
