All for naught, naughty bots Blizzard’s doing its best to keepHearthstoneplayers on a level playing field, and that has resulted in action against a significant number of users. Recently announced in aBattle.net post, “several thousand” accounts have been temporarily banned for the use of bots that automate gameplay. These bans will stay in effect until 2015. Blizzard reiterated its stance on ethics and said that “fair play is at the core of theHearthstoneexperience, and cheating and botting will not be tolerated....

We got the box art too The fun part of a showcase like Summer Game Fest is seeing how each game company handles its reveals. Some opt for grandiose trailers to tingle our imaginations. But forMarvel’s Spider Man 2, it needs no such fanfare. They simply had game director Bryan Intihar come on stage, talk about a few details, and then the bombshell drops.Marvel’s Spider Man 2launches on August 06, 2025....

On his Instagram Legendary designer Michel Ancel is once again up to his old tricks, hyping up some upcoming project. Or is he? These days you can never be too sure with seemingly innocuous posts, like aBeyond Good and Evilrelated piece of art he posted on his Instagram recently. It could be concept art for the original, a scrapped game, or the sequel that’s basically been in limbo for five years (according to, of course, Michel Ancel, who said it was “far into development” at the time....

Allah’s not longer in the toilet Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2has removed a map from its servers after Muslim gamers complained (in fairness, quite politely) of offense. The problem lies in two paintings hung in a bathroom in the Favela map, containing the phrase, “Allah is beautiful and he loves beauty.” The map won’t be gone forever, it’s just been removed as a temporary issue until the publisher can patch out the offending image....

You get the Rabbid one I guess Rabbid Rosalina is in forMario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, but the “real” Rosalina likely isn’t, according to a new developer interview. Producer Xavier Manzanares spoke to Nintendo Everything about the game, and dropped at least one confirmation bomb on us: that Yoshi was 100% out forSparks of Hope. Manzanares posits: “When we started to think about the team and the heroes, we didn’t want to go for, ‘Okay, we did it before, so we have to do the same thing again’ and trying to evolve what we had inKingdom Battle....

After a ton of speculation, it seems as if Sega has finally spilled the beans on the release dates ofNiGHTS into dreamsandSonic Adventure2. Both will be coming in October for $9.99 (800 Microsoft Points). Both games will be coming to the PSN on October 2nd, and the Xbox Live Arcade on October 5th.Sonic Adventure 2will have Battle Mode DLC on sale for $3, andNiGHTS(wait for it!) is gettingChristmas NiGHTSfor free!...

We are, as of this writing, a week away fromThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. That’s a pretty short amount of time, especially compared to the six years it’s been sinceBreath of the Wild. So if you need a refresher before the sequel arrives, there’s a quick recap video just for you. Nintendo published anew video, titled “Relive the Story ofThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” today, recapping the story of 2017’sThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild....

Now with suspenseful music as you receive comments! Integrated statistic tracking and social networking features with videogames is no new concept, even in the racing genre, but the road warriors at Codematers look to be adding a lot more to their RaceNet with the upcoming release ofGRID 2. RaceNet does have many features found in most of itscontemporaries; easily viewable player and race statistics, global leaderboards, and weekly challenges for players, to name a few....

Even some Steam key deals too! Black Friday for PC Gamers has begun with Origin launching the first salvo of discounts. Now through November 30 (Cyber Monday), get up to75% off hundreds of titles and DLCpacks. For the most part, Origin has discounts on EA games, but surprisingly there are a few Steam titles in the mix likeTomb RaiderandHitman: Absolution. The best deals in the sale are a few new historic lows on select Origin titles....

Look at all the money One of the best RTS titles in the past decade,Offworld Trading Company, is available to play on Steam, for free, from now until Sunday. As is customary with free weekends like this, the base game and all of its DLC and expansions have been placed on sale for those who want to continue playing past the Sunday deadline, or for those of us who have fallen behind on picking up the expansions....

How Sony’s Kinect-like camera works Something Sony didn’t go into great lengths to explain yesterday evening was thePlayStation 4 Eye. Today, Destructoid sat down with SCE Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida, who revealed some new information regarding the device and its two high-definition stereoscopic cameras. The cameras triangulate the position of bodies and controllers within a three-dimensional space, as you might expect. Yoshida touted the device’s potential for augmented reality games as well as its ability to take 3D pictures....

Nintendo has announced that its never-ending Pokemon saga will continue on March 6, whenPokémon Black VersionandPokémon White Versionfor the Nintendo DS hit shelves. The press release announcing this momentous occasion probably reads similarly to whatever Nintendo was saying in 1999 when it shippedPokémon GoldandSilver: the games “feature new Pokemon that players can catch, train and battle as they progress through the game, and some Pokémon can only be caught in on version of the game....

Pin it! If you’re looking forward toFire Emblem: Three Housesand haven’t given up on the idea of pre-ordering, GameStop has an offer that might be of interest for you. All pre-orders for the upcoming strategy game will come with a pin set representing the titular “Three Houses” from the game. You won’t need to pre-order thecollector’s edition, either, as the offer is valid for either version of the game. WithThree Houseshitting Switchon July 28, 2025, you still have a few months to figure out if this offer is worth it to you....