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Path of Exile Shaping Before you start shaping your Path of Exile Atlas, we suggest you read our introduction to the Atlas. Once you have done that, you will be left with the question: what is shaping? Shaping is a mechanic...

In case you missed it, a champion was actually released in League of Legends patch 9.13, alongside Teamfight Tactics. She has been teased for quite a while now, and has been rumored to have some capability to...

Have you ever wondered why we aren’t allowed to trade cards in Hearthstone? After all, I have Rexxar’s Death Knight that I don’t want, and you have Jaina’s. It would be pretty nice if we could just pass them...

Recently in the League of Legends subreddit, there’s been quite a bit of discussion on the topic of carrying. We’ll get into the nitty-gritty below, but the gist is the question of whether a "good" player is more important...

The new Hearthstone expansion, The Witchwood, finally released this week. We’d seen most of the cards in the expansion several weeks back, but the developers held onto one particular treat. Last week they revealed what the developers themselves called...

This subject is something I feel strongly about, and have for a long time. Mission reward systems in games as the sole way to reward players is a terrible system. I’m talking about Hearthstone’s system, about League of Legends’...

The newest Hearthstone set has finally been revealed! It will be The Witchwood, coming out mid-April 2018. This set will launch with the Year of the Raven rotation. With this new set comes over one hundred new cards, two...

Anyone who reads my writing knows how much I love Path of Exile. So, you’ll know how impactful it is when I say that this league is terrible. The Bestiary league is by far the worst league I’ve experienced,...

The Year of the Raven is finally here and there will be a lot of changes with cards rotating out. Three of the sets in Standard will be removed from rotation alongside a small selection of cards from the...

A lot of changes are coming to Path of Exile with the launch of Bestiary league: new league mechanics, new uniques, and new skills. But we’re also getting massive changes to the core gameplay in the form of ascendancy...

It’s that time again! Over the next few weeks Abyss League will be ending, and Path of Exile will be starting its new league: Bestiary League. As the name implies, it’s all about capturing the beasts of Wraeclast. Many are...

It’s that time of the year again: time for our yearly Hearthstone balance patch! This year Blizzard carefully looked at all of the tier one decks and decided that Warlock was the coolest. As a result, they decided to...