Reddit is one of the biggest and most important websites on the planet, especially since it’s one of the last places human beings can get questions answered by actual human beings. So it sucks to see that the company is about to crush many of the best ways to actually experience the whole thing.
Earlier this week League of Legends players voted “overwhelmingly” to strike over plans to make rule changes that would cut the North American Challenger’s League—which only launched last year—from 16 teams to seven.
With the WGA strike still going on, it’s unfortunately easy to find a lot of stories about the casual condescension and mistreatment that TV writers regularly experience in their jobs, be it from executives who don’t know anything about the creative process or what, but those problems are very much not new—and iconic…
Silent Hill Ascension, Konami’s cryptic “live, real-time interactive series” game, just got a brand new trailer. It looks tense, with nasty enemies that should provide enough nightmare fuel to last through your waiting for details on other upcoming Silent Hill projects, like the Silent Hill 2 movie and desperately…
Magic: The Gathering is one of the biggest and longest-running trading card games in existence, and it’s kept its position at the top for good reason. It’s an incredibly rich and tactical experience that promotes creativity, wild and interesting card interactions, and allows players to express themselves and how they like to play through the breadth and depth of a single card game.
The only problem is, Magic is older than, well, me. And with that incredibly long history comes a lot of baggage. There are more cards out there than any one person could feasibly keep in their head, pages and pages of lore to keep track of for those interested in its story, and a lot of its older mechanics have grown a little bit clunky and difficult for new players to grasp.
It’s also been around long enough that there’s a massive amount of assumed knowledge and competitiveness that the game thrusts upon its players regardless of the experience that they’re looking for.
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