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Hearthstone News The new Hearthstone expansion is TITANS! We interviewed Blizzard about the cards, new keyword, and more. Blizzard just announced Hearthstone TITANS as the game’s newest expansion! The Gods of Warcraft are arriving to bring players 145 new cards, 11 legendary Titans, and the Forge keyword. We interviewed lead designer Cora Georgiou and visual effects artist Luke Mason about Hearthstone TITANS cards, the Forge keyword, and more! Legendary Titans in new Hearthstone TITANS expansion There are 11 legendary Titans in the new Hearthstone expansion, which means one for each class....

Call of Duty News The long-awaited arrival of Nuketown has been given a release date in Black Ops 6, and fans don’t have to wait long. During all of the pre-launch talk surrounding the 6v6 maps in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, there was no mention of the fan-favorite map, Nuketown. Nuketown has been in every iteration of Black Ops since the original in 2010 and while fans didn’t think that was changing this year, Activision was steadily tight-lipped about the map, until now....

A highly acclaimed show on Prime Video, which boasted a Rotten Tomatoes score of 87%, had the potential to become a worthy replacement for Netflix’sStranger Things. Unfortunately, despite landing in critics' good books, the show failed to last longer than one season. Given howStranger Thingsis one ofNetflix’s most valuable TV sci-fi IPsand has only grown from strength to strength with each season in terms of viewership and cultural impact, not a lot of shows deserve to be labeled as its replacements....

That’s worldwide for retail and digital The PlayStation 4 has sold 4.2 million unitssince it was launched. To go along with that figure, Sony also announced that software sales have reached 9.7 million copies worldwide between retail and digital. Top sellers includeCall of Duty: Ghosts, Assassin’s Creed IV, Battlefield 4,andKillzone: Shadow Fall. PlayStation Plus memberships have increased by more than 90% since the PS4’s launch as well.Twitch shared theirstreaming figures, but combined with Ustream there have been 1....

Teamfight Tactics News The Teamfight Tactics Set 8 Monsters Attack! Championship crowned a world champion! Rereplay, representing North America took home the title. Rereplay scored 33 points in the finals to take home the victory in the Teamfight Tactics Monsters Attack! Championship. This is how he became the TFT Monsters Attack! world champion. Rereplay’s journey to the final lobby Over the first two days of the Monsters Attack! Championship, Rereplay totaled the second-highest amount of points over twelve games....

20 or so to half-ass it A fair contingent of game-players equate the amount of #content in a game to whether or not it’s a “good deal.” It’s a mindset that has always struck me as odd. I’ll take a streamlined shorter game over an unfocused sprawl any day (ironic, as this is coming from an annual player of whatever the newAssassin’s Creedis). Not everyone feels the same way. As such, conversations about how long games are can be important to some people....

On all systems South Park: The Fractured But Whole: Bring the Crunchis out this week across all platforms, completing the three-bit season pass with two major story DLCs and a challenge room pack. This one looks like the whole enchilada (not to be confused with the enchilada-themed Casa Bonita DLC), as it includes new areas, enemies, and powers. Themed around the occult and the supernatural the whole camp setting looks like good old fashionedSouth Park, complete with horror parodies up the wazoo (a few of which you may see in the trailer below)....

Are you squidding me? I know I shouldn’t be surprised to learn that human beings are behind the music of theSplatoonseries, but putting faces to the weird voices that the inklings have is a little surreal for me. Nintendo of Japan has uploaded a video promoting the upcoming release ofSplatoon 2’s“Octotune” soundtrack and it gives us a glimpse at not only the lead vocals but the band that creates the rocking tunes that flood Inkopolis....

Nightdive Studios' long-gestating remake of classic FPSSystem Shockfinally released this week and the consensus surrounding the game is mostly positive. Nightdive has made a name for itself in the past by crafting quality ports of classic first-person shooters to modern platforms, butSystem Shockrepresents the company’s first foray into a full ground-up remake, and an impressively ambitious one at that. Still, the developer’s choice to adhere closely to the original source material in how it crafted the remake presents an interesting case for examining the pros and cons of being too faithful to the original game when re-imagining it for modern hardware and a new audience....

DOTA 2 News Talon Esports’ W becomes the first Dota 2 player to reach 15K MMR, just 2 months after the previous milestone was broken. The ceaseless MMR race sees a new player sprinting ahead! Malaysian offlaner, Chung “Ws” Wei Shen - who is also the current offlaner for Talon Esports - has just reached the next MMR milestone, becomingthe first 15K MMR player in the world. 19-year-old W sure lives up to his name as he posts the mind-blowing achievement on hisFacebookaccount....

Don’t X’pect much There’s anotherTekkenmovie coming out,Cinema Todayreports. Inexplicably, it’s a prequel to theTekkenmovie that came out in 2009 that no one cared about. Just start over. No one would care. I was going to mention fond memories of watchingTekkenwith some Destructoid folks in a hotel room one evening at E3 2012 amongst cheap beer, but then I remembered we were watchingDOA: Dead or Alive, a worse fighting game movie with a title that’s more redundant than “ATM machine....

I am so happy thatCastle Crashershas been given a release date. Oh sweet irony. I’ve been waiting for this game since last year’s PAX and it comes out the day I fly out to this year’s PAX. HAWP takes a mid-season break, win a copy ofLegend: Hand of God, some of Activision’s games are in trouble, some guy drives his boat with a Wiimote and plenty more happened on Monday....

Dirk on the go Due to the ingenuity of Don Bluth,Dragon’s Lairhas been one of those retro games that has withstood the test of time. I’ve seen people fight over aDragon’s Lairarcade cabinet in recent years, it’s one of the go-to retro games to show off in a show likeStranger Thingsand the animation still holds up. We’ve seen countless ports for it and now you can add one more system to the list: Switch....