Posted by Brian On November 9, 2013 Comments Off on A Week of Hearthstone
Day 1
I have just completed my first Full day of Hearthstone, and I love it!
Just to give some background to my TCG playing, I have enjoyed about 10+ years of Magic: The Gathering, about 2-3 years of Pokémon, and 1-2 years of the WoW TCG. I have also played the Battletech card game and tried Yu-Gi-Oh (no I didn’t like it). This brings me up to Hearthstone. In simple terms, I love it. It’s true that it doesn’t have the feel for the instant spells, which Pokémon didn’t have either (making it more simplistic and easier to follow), however Hearthstone adds in the secrets which activate on the enemies turn, giving a little bit more strategy for you and your foe to think around.
Also, automatically gaining 1 mana crystal per turn up to 10 alleviates the problems of having resource ‘clumps’ or ‘droughts’ during your game and is a huge plus. The fact that the game also adds in ‘the coin’ to allow the 2nd player 1 turn of being ahead of the 1st player resource wise is also an interesting concept to balance who goes 1st and 2nd.
The 9 different characters all have their own unique spells, abilities and even creatures makes them all very appealing, provided you know what type of deck you want to make. This gives a lot of interesting choices for what may even be the same theme behind a deck, but can be executed in up to 9 different ways, based on the innate hero ability, as well as the extra cards they bring to the table.
I look forward to playing against more opponents, live and npc, and getting a much better feel for this game.
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Posted by David On November 3, 2013 Comments Off on Podcast – Episode #64
Episode #64 features:
Nerd Culture News: The X-Men: Days of Future Past trailer & 2 scripts for ID4 2
5 minute Popcorn Junkies: The Fifth Estate & Blackfish
Contest of Champions: James T Kirk vs Han Solo
Azerothian Times: Account wide Professions, Scalable Instances & Warcraft: The Movie
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Posted by David On October 20, 2013 Comments Off on Podcast – Episode #62
Episode #62 features:
NCP goes weekly! Featuring our newest Crewmember – Bo!
Nerd Culture News: Tarantino’s 2013 Top 10, JJ Abrams talking to George Lucas ‘daily’ & my attendance at the Armageddon Expo Media event
5 minute Popcorn Junkies: A Field in England & Cabin in the Woods
Contest of Champions: Spider-Man VS Wolverine
Azerothian Times: Our new World of Warcraft segment
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A Field in England
Cabin in the Woods
BlizzCon 2013
Posted by David On September 29, 2013 Comments Off on Podcast – Episode #60
Episode #60 features:
Dust Jacket: The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
Our Top 5 Rogues/Anti-Heroes
Game Review: Bioshock Infinite
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The Quantum Thief Glossary at karengill.com
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Bioshock Infinite – Xbox 360
Posted by David On September 15, 2013 Comments Off on Podcast – Episode #59
Episode #59 features:
5 minute Popcorn Junkies: The Wolverine, Elysium, The Artist & Kick Ass 2
From the Racks: All Ages Comics
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The Wolverine blu-ray (pre-order)
Elysium blu-ray (pre-order)
The Artist blu-ray
Kick Ass 2 blu-ray (pre-order)
Leave it to Chance vol 1
Bone – Complete Epic
Peanuts – Treasures Collection
Runaways Digest vol 1
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