Hearthstone’s upcoming Boomsday expansion pack looks to be filled with wild cards, including three synergistic Druid cards which we recently revealed. Whizbang the Wonderful is a 4-mana 4/5, but you won’t play him for his stats. And when you queue into a match with a Whizbang deck, your deck turns into one of 18 possible decks—more specifically, one of the most recent 18 deck recipes across all nine classes. Whizbang is never going to be a top-tier card since the deck recipes he’s built around a

The latest Enter the Gungeon expansion launched earlier today, and as the name ‘Gungeons & Draguns’ implies, it has a heavy whiff of fantasy about it. It’s filtered through the now-familiar Enter the Gungeon style though, a style which permits bullets shooting at bullets, and guns with names like “Heck Master”. But it’s not just veterans that are being catered for: new players will find a rogue-lite far less stingier than most, with more generous drop rates and better shop contents. Anyway, here

Activision released a Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 trailer yesterday setting up the Zombies mode “Chaos” storyline. As if this “World War Two zombies” business wasn’t weird enough in its own right, Blood of the Dead confuses the situation even further by taking it all onto the infamous island prison of Alcatraz. There also appears to be some sort of transdimensional stuff going on, which I’ll be honest goes right over my head. The whole thing is a “reimagined fan-favorite Zombies experience” based

Sea of Thieves will get more dangerous, and more social, when the free Cursed Sails update arrives on July 31. Developer Rare said the update will “change things forever” by adding literal skeleton crews to the high seas, and a new alliance system that will make it easier to take them on. “The sails you see cresting the horizon are no longer guaranteed to be other players making their own way through the world. Cursed Sails is a time-limited campaign, but the skeleton sailors are not: Rare confi

At the time of writing, Clicker Heroes 2 is well into Steam’s top 100 with 8,947 concurrent players and a daily peak of 9,350. Those are strong numbers for any new Early Access game, but for a $30 sequel fighting to shed the free-to-play reputation of its predecessor, Clicker Heroes 2’s popularity is astonishing. And I have to admit, while I’m not the biggest fan of idle games, I found Clicker Heroes 2 quite absorbing. If games like Diablo and Borderlands are loot treadmills, Clicker Heroes 2 is

Yesterday, Newegg had the Lenovo IdeaPad with a Core i5-8250U processor and 8GB RAM for just $499.99. Today Newegg has another solid mid-range laptop on sale—the Dell Inspiron 15-5579. The Inspiron 15-5579 has a Core i5-8250U proccessor, 8GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD. For connectivity, you get two USB 3.0, one USB 2.0, one HDMI, an SD card reader, and a headphone/microphone combo jack. You can buy the Inspiron 15-5579 from Newegg.

Is there anyone left in the world who is interested in Overwatch, but hasn’t yet tried it? If so, you’ll have (another) opportunity to dip your toes in the water next weekend, when it once again goes free for everyone. The free weekend will include all Overwatch heroes, including the Hammer (which is what I’m going to keep calling him until someone makes me stop), and 18 maps in Quick Play, Custom Games, and the Arcade. It’s all fairly standard stuff for an Overwatch freebie, with the one except

Halo Infinite, which as far as we know is also Halo 6, was teased in June at E3 and, more importantly, confirmed for PC. We don’t know much about it, but thanks to a recent 343 Social Stream on Mixer, we do know that it probably won’t have a battle royale mode. “I’ll tell you right now, the only ‘BR’ we’re really interested in is ‘Battle Rifle’,” 343 Industries lead writer Jeff Easterling says in response to a question about the mode’s possible inclusion. Activision and EA have both made a point

Today we can exclusively reveal three cards from The Boomdsday Project which will help make the Treant deck a reality. Given that the Token Druid archetype is currently considered Tier 1 , and already runs Soul of the Forest, I would expect these new Treant cards to slot in nicely. —Peter WhalenInterestingly, Whalen said that the reason behind designing Dendrologist with a Discover ability was to prevent the Treant deck from feeling dull. LandscapingPerhaps not the flashiest of the three new Tre

One of the more interesting bits, however, comes from a motherboard ad by MSI that seemingly suggests AMD is ramping up the core count on its AM4 Ryzen chips. AMD’s mainstream Ryzen processors currently top out at 8 cores and 16 threads—if you want more cores and threads to throw at workloads, you have to look at Threadripper. Mentioning “8 core and up” seems like a weird thing to point out unless MSI is privy to upcoming Ryzen CPUs with more cores than the current crop. It’s also possible that

The first week of the Fortnite Summer Skirmish “did not go as planned,” Epic admitted in a recent “postmortem,” which may be a bit of an understatement. But the good news is that developers learned some valuable lessons from the experience, and they’re working on ways to improve things for the next round. “We have a lot of ideas about how to handle cases like this better, and are working on that right now. We also think that this work will improve server performance for other intense modes like

Part of being a good streamer means using a microphone that doesn’t suck. The Blue Yeti falls into the ‘doesn’t suck’ category, and you can pick one up for under $100 today. It works on select items and requires a $50 minimum purchase, and the Blue Yeti linked below meets those requirements. This is for the blackout model, and it also comes with a download code for Ghost Recon Wildlands, so there’s some added value there. We consider the Blue Yeti to be the best microphone for most people, based

Less factual, however, is Tacopocalypse, a stunt driving game about delivering tacos in the tacopocalypse. In the tacopocalypse, a single taco will be worth millions of dollars, not a few centsWhen civilization crumbles, there’s always something that becomes more valuable than anything else. And due to the constant tidal waves, tornadoes, and meteor strikes, a single taco will become nearly priceless. In Tacopocalypse, however, a single taco delivery usually nets me less than a dollar. Listening

Is your board game group butting heads over one too many crushing victories by a dominant player? Well, here are the best cooperative board games you can play right now, balancing the old with the new. There’s bound to be some crossover with our best board games list, if you’re interested in a more general view of what’s going on in tabletop. It’s a unique game structure that’s somewhere between interactive fiction and regimented, turn-based board game. Right now, it’s the ultimate game for a co

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is out in less than a month. But of all those things, I never expected to fall so madly in love with Zandalar, one of its new zones. When the expansion was first announced, I wasn’t all that excited by the idea of visiting the ancient troll empire of Zandalar. Similar to Legion, Battle for Azeroth has level-scaling so you can always choose where to quest and when. World of Warcraft really shows its age with zones like Dustwallow Marsh.

In week two of Fortnite Season 5’s battle pass challenges, the new toys come into play. Make sure the basketball emote is equipped, and set out into the world. 50v50 is a nice mode for shooting hoops as your ball is far less likely to get shot out of the air. In the video above, we’ve located all nine basketball hoop locations to alleviate some of the trial and error. Take a look at the image below for more general locations.

Corsair has expanded its Hydro Pro Series closed-loop CPU coolers with the H100i Pro, the smallest and least expensive version yet. As the smallest cooler of the bunch, the H100i Pro is an option for users with cramped builds. We haven’t had a chance to test out this new model yet, but the reviews so far are promising, with the H100i Pro comparing favorably with its two bigger siblings. TomsHardware even saw better temps on the H100i Pro than the H150i Pro, albeit at the expense of some noise, w

Hot on the gladiator sandal heels of its Empire Divided DLC and Cleopatra-starring Desert Kingdoms culture pack, Total War: Rome 2 has announced Rise of the Republic. Rome wasn’t build in a day, so goes the famous adage, but I could likely make a go of destroying it in similar time with those features. Alongside the premium campaign pack—priced £11.99/$14.99—comes the Ancestral Update which introduces a Family Tree to all Rome 2 campaigns. “The Ancestral Update will initially launch as an opt-in

In week two of Fortnite Season 5’s battle pass challenges, you’ll need to find some battle stars hidden between an oasis, rock archway, and dinosaurs. There’s only one area in Fortnite that could have an oasis, so start there if you’re hoping to find the treasure on your own. If not, we have the location mapped below. The GIF above shows the specific location, just north of the abandoned village at the southeast edge of the map.

AMD is expected to release its next-generation of high-end desktop (HEDT) Threadripper processors sometime between now and September, though nothing official has been announced. We must be getting close to a launch, however, as AMD’s existing Threadripper CPUs are selling well below their launch MSRPs. Credit goes to Nathan Kirsch at Legit Reviews for noticing the apparent price cuts on all three current-generation Threadripper parts. If you’re wondering, the original MSRPs were $999, $799, and