Gaming

The winds of change are upon us! Starting March, expect to see a reworked Ranked Play system in Hearthstone. Although the changes officially take place for the March season, how you play in February will impact how you start in March! Starting in the Hearthstone Update for March, all players reset four ranks back. Player ranks will now reset exactly four ranks below your current standing, including the number of stars in your current rank. Here are some examples: Rank 15, 2 stars, resets to Rank 19, 2 stars. Rank 1, 3 stars, resets to Rank 5, 3 stars. Legend players…

Today is a special day for all Xbox fans – that’s because Xbox Game Pass has expanded to 40 countries, including our sunny Singapore! If you’re clueless about the latest craze in the Xbox gaming world, the Xbox Game Pass is basically an online collection of virtually every Xbox One-generation game that has been released, for play on any Xbox One and later! Basically, it’s like getting a monthly pass to all the existing mind-blowing rides in your local Universal Studios or Disneyland, as well as any exciting future additions. For starters, the Xbox Game Pass has over 100 great games in its…

Season’s greetings fellow Horde and Alliance members. The Feast of Winter Veil is here and everyone is invited! You are sure to find a few treats, along with some fun tasks to take on at the coolest party of the year! Spaces are limited, so you’d better get registering now! The event details are as follows: When: 18:00 – 22:00 (Tuesday, December 19) Where: Zouk Singapore (3C River Valley Road, The Cannery) Enjoy a series of fun activities to qualify for a lucky draw – with over 1,000 Blizzard merchandises for you to bring home! Itching to know more? Check out…

Square Enix continued its celebration of the one year anniversary of the release of FINAL FANTASY BRAVE EXVIUS. Players of the hit free-to-play RPG also had a first-look at numerous game updates, special promotions, and other exciting news, including: Permanent Rare Character Drop Rate Increase: Beginning on November 24, drop rates for rainbow crystals that contain top-tier characters will be tripled from the current rate, giving players a greater chance to acquire highly sought after units. New FINAL FANTASY XV Characters: Gladiolus, Cor and Iris join Noctis and the Kingsglaive cast as playable characters. A new FINAL FANTASY XV-themed event…

It’s a glorious day today as Microsoft launches the X box One X, the world’s most powerful console – bringing a new era of immersive 4K gaming and 4K entertainment to gamers in Singapore. At SGD $699 retail, the Xbox One X launches with the largest games lineup in Xbox history. “We are delighted to offer gamers the world’s most powerful console with access to the largest games lineup in Xbox history, including Forza Motorsport 7, Assassin’s Creed Origins, Cuphead and Super Lucky’s Tale, out of more than 1,300 titles and more than 220 exclusives available on the Xbox One X…

Overwatch has crosshairs in the middle of your screen and your health bar at the bottom left. And the similarity with most other First-Person Shooters (FPS) games end there. Overwatch plays more like a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA), akin to Dota 2, League of Legends and Heroes Of The Storm instead of your traditional FPS games like Counter-Strike or Battlefield. Each playable hero is unique without customising, and although some very roughly fulfill roles we’re familiar with like tanks, medics and assault, every single one of them is so much more. This game’s hype and the fan anticipation didn’t just put it into the…

There’s nothing quite like watching high skill players still fall prey to the most insidious of card gaming mechanics: top decking. Though we pitied the Krannich who was knocked out of the Round of 16 with a Wild Pyromancer draw into Equality board clear, we took solace in the fact that no one is safe from the clutches of RNGesus. The Hearthstone Singapore Major took place over 8 to 10 April, starting with a Round Of 256 before it was swiftly chopped down to the Round of 16 then the finals itself of the region’s best players. many who flew to…

“CAPTAIN! Great news!” “What is it?” “We have a release date!” “HOIST THE SAILS THEN, FIRST MATE. SET SAIL FOR OUR RELEASE DATE. Overwatch is upon us” For some reason, I thought of  time-pirate and imagined if the captain was a video gamer and- For those of you who are following Overwatch, Blizzard Entertainment’s latest venture into a new genre, we now have a release date and an open beta! For those of you who aren’t keeping tabs, Overwatch is a multiplayer FPS that incorporates a ton of gameplay elements and unique, quirky characters into a MOBA-esque frame. Just like…

Garden Warfare 2 by Popcap Games is a whimsical third-person shooter and tower defense game set in the Plants vs. Zombies universe; where unsurprisingly, plants battle against zombies with bizarre weaponry ranging from a butter airstrike to a super-zombie’s beam attack. Yeap, welcome to a very confusing world of colour and surrealism. The sequel to the original Garden Warfare, a multiplayer-only game, GW2 brings it all back with a fun (but short) single-player campaign. Be warned – the writing is very cheesy, and only people with a toddler’s sense of humour find them hilarious. Of course, not only did I feel right…

We’ll be upfront: we don’t particularly enjoy visiting. We understand the need for tradition and appreciate the rationale behind it! Keeping in touch with family that you don’t see often is important, as is well-wishing that you may see everyone the following year. We just wish it wasn’t so awkward…and boring. You know what I mean. So as you inevitably slide your phone out as the snack-induced food coma sets in, here’s 3 mobile games (that are not the finger-cramping Candy Crush or the wallet-draining Clash of Clans) that you could play to pass time. They’re not free mobile games but…