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Hearthstone is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, and the weeks-long birthday blowout is well underway. The celebration includes free giveaways of special "gift spell" cards for each class, a new Harth Stonebrew card as a login card that grants iconic hands from Hearthstone history, and an upcoming nostalgia-tinged expansion that brings a new twist on some fan favorite cards and mechanics. GameSpot spoke with senior game designer Cora Georgiou and executive producer Nathan Lyons-Smith about how…

You could do worse at half-term than this new family animation from Illumination (the studio behind Sing and Minions). It’s a zany caper about a family of mallards; it’s not particularly original, with ideas and laughs that feel a little dusty, like they’ve been cobbled from bits and bobs knocking around the studio. But there are enough high jinks – as well as a seriously cute duckling – to keep it on the flight path.In New England, a daddy duck called Mack (voiced by Kumail Nanjiani) is risk-averse and overprotective of…

We welcome you to the world of Josh Sachs, also known as 'Baldstache'! Under this handle on Instagram, you will find comics, cartoons, writings, and even music created by Josh. Over time Josh's comics have evolved, and now you will see that there are 2 types of more defined storylines and themes that the artist revisits, as well as hilarious 'Baldstache' signature comics that first started as "These Inside Jokes" cartoons.This is what Josh himself wrote about his series "Ronson": "I began to develop a common theme with…

I’m Link, and this is the Korok Launch It’s launch day for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Countless players are booting the game up for the first time, and quickly gaining Link’s newfound ability to build contraptions and vehicles. And it seems like everyone’s subjecting the same poor Korok to their wacky Zelda experiments. Mild spoilers for the intro and starting area of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom follow. After the early introduction sequence, Link wakes up on a tutorial island. Much like…

Video game-related projects are having a moment. The year’s first buzz-worthy TV show was HBO’s excellent first season of the drama series “The Last of Us,” based on the Sony PlayStation hit. Last week brought us the Apple TV+ film “Tetris,” not an adaptation of the enduring puzzle game — thankfully — but instead a dramatization of the wild race decades ago to secure rights to the Soviet Union-controlled property. And now comes “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” a shiny-and-colorful computer-animated adventure based on the…

Earlier this year, the film-maker Mike Hodges wrote a wonderful letter to this newspaper, in answer to the question I had posed in an article about his British mobster movie from 1971: “Even after 50 years, do we properly get Carter?” Hodges laid it bare: we will get Carter if we get that it’s a Hogarthian polemic about the British class system with all its shame and self-hate.In the late 50s, Hodges did his national service in the Royal Navy, in the course of which he witnessed the poverty and wretchedness in fishing…

Psychonauts 2 is ready — and it's here. Tell that to someone from the late ‘00s and they likely wouldn't believe you. The original Psychonauts, released in 2005 on the original Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC, had a tortured development process. Though it had Grim Fandango and Full Throttle director Tim Schafer at the helm, it was the first game for his new studio Double Fine. That resulted in all sorts of problems, resulting in Microsoft pulling an exclusivity deal midway through production. Double Fine found a new partner…

Squanch Games has shared the first trailer for High On Life, a sci-fi shooter where players will need to “take out the entire alien drug cartel” with a host of living weapons. Revealed during Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase 2022, High On Life is planned to launch in October 2022 and will be available on Xbox Game Pass from day one. Created by Justin Roiland, the trailer reveals an action-packed shooter where players must use a range of talking guns to dismantle an intergalactic drug trade. Roiland is best known for…

It’s been announced today (June 9) that the Saints Row character creator can be downloaded and played with right now. Called the “Boss Factory,” the character creator demo is playable now on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC via the Epic Games Store. The new trailer featuring the character creator can be seen below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfk9gYl3ErU NME got a look at the expansive customisation options back in April, and we learned that players can equip layered clothing on their character. This…