Forged in the Barrens is an interesting expansion for Hearthstone that plays it safe while also introducing ideas that could make for some exciting changes in the future.

That’s right folks, we worked on a long weekend so we could ensure you wouldn’t be starved of Darryn talking about that one time he crippled a leprechaun.

Hearthstone! Blizzard’s free-to-play card game is stronger than ever, and it’s getting ready for a new era of content that has been dubbed the Year of the Gryphon. Hearthstone’s new Core Set, which replaces existing Basic and Classic sets with a freshly curated selection of 235 cards, will also be added when the new year kicks off.

BlizzConOnline will be a free show that will be streamed from February 20-21, and will encompass everything that Blizzard is currently ready to talk about. There’ll be a number of main channels that you can tune into, each one dedicated to a franchise, and providing deep dives into what’s next for those games and a behind the scenes look at other aspects of their creation.

It’s about time we got those Old Gods back into the mix, I missed not being able to pray to Yogg-Saron for good luck.

If you’re on a fixed bandwidth budget, it’s handy to have an estimation of just how many megabytes you’ll be spending in a game at any given time. Telecommunications site whistleout measured the approximate hourly download figures (give or take, depending on certain factors of course) for the 22 most popular games on the planet currently.

Considering the emphasis on “class identity” in Hearthstone, an academic theme fits right into the game. Gaudeamus igitur!

The new class, the first added to Hearthstone since launch, utterly demolished the game within a few hours of launch.