Join Critical Hit as we dive into the new expansion and mess around with Rafaam and his villainous cronies! What are your feelings towards gambling? How about Wizard Gambling? That’s Hearthstone, baby. Tonight at 20:00 CAT/CEST join myself, Brad Lang, and my good friend and Hearthstone oldboy Keegan Lubbe, as we explore the Rise of Shadows expansion. We’ll be opening …

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post on Prodeus, a game which still looks metal as f***. It’s like DOOM, but it’s also kind of like DOOM. Which may sound confusing but hear me out here: Imagine the fast-paced feel of the new DOOM which emphasises speed and brutality, but adds in some retro flavour in the form of ye olde school DOOM visuals.

The game is headed to Nintendo’s Switch, but many – myself included – didn’t think it would be a particularly good port. Afterall, the game is technically beyond the little system’s capabilities.

With the likes of Google Stadia and other advances in streaming technology making video games more accessible than ever, who needs a dedicated piece of hardware to feed game discs into?

The blame for the current state of video games is often laid at the feet of mobile games, whose predatory microtransactions paved the way for the recurrent spending you see in most big blockbuster games today. It’s all gone full circle, as 7-year-old mobile sensation Clash of Clans took the idea of Season Passes from games like Fortnite, adding challenges and rewards to its freemium multiplayer mobile strategy game. And it’s worked

In Mortal Kombat 11, D’Vorah’s back and stranger than ever, with the insect queen now having a far trickier arsenal of attacks up her winged sleeves.

I adore Ubisoft’s UbiArt Framework. The engine has a focus on hand-drawn art, and was the underlying tech behind games like Rayman Origins and Legends, Valiant Hearts: The Great War and the delightful Child of Light. It’s largely been dormant though, as the company has opted instead to use its other internal engines.

Even if you don’t enjoy fighting games, there’s no denying that “Evo Moment 37” is one of the very best moments not just in fighting games, but in competitive video games as a whole