Artifact beta: Learn how to play Valve’s first card game… and how to pay

Enlarge / It’s a beta! A beta that will take your money. (credit: Valve Software) Valve’s next video game, a card-battling computer game called Artifact, will be a tricky one to review for a few reasons. For one, it inevitably comes with the baggage of being “Valve’s next video game.” Whatever Artifact is, it isn’t […]

‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Review: Netflix Revives an Orson Welles Artifact [NYFF]

The Other Side of the Wind is finally complete — or rather “complete.” Nominally. The final film by the great Orson Welles (assuming The Deep never sees the light of day) begins with a title card explaining that this version, restored by the folks at Netflix, exists as “an attempt to honor and complete” Welles’ […]

Artifact — what we know about Valve’s digital card game

I have seen Artifact, Valve’s upcoming digital card game. It is not just a Hearthstone clone. It’s actually a much more complicated experience that also offers players more freedom. Valve president Gabe Newell also explained to members of the press and myself that Artifact will not be a free-to-play game. It will also take advantage […]

Rare ancient artifact proves the Romans were the original pranksters

What have the Romans ever done for us? Well, besides water systems, straight roads and central heating, the discovery of the Tantalus bowl now suggests they were the masters of cracking good jokes. The function of the Tantalus bowl, which soaks whoever drinks from it in wine, was only fully realized after it was studied […]

PC Gaming Weekly: Watch out, Heartstone — here comes Artifact

Depending on your point of view, Valve’s news this week is either one heckuva tease or a knife in your Half-Life-lovin’ soul. Late Tuesday night, the publisher of worldwide hits such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 announced Artifact, a digital card game (think Magic: The Gathering, but as a video game). We don’t know much more about […]

Valve announces Artifact, a Dota-themed digital card game

Enlarge / Want more info on Valve’s upcoming card-battling game Artifact? Too bad! All you get for now is this logo. (credit: Valve) Rather than wait until the end of The International, the major Dota 2 tournament taking place in Seattle all week, to announce major Dota news, Valve surprise-announced an entirely new video game […]

Valve reveals ‘Artifact,’ the official ‘Dota’ card game

Tonight, during Valve’s “The International” Dota 2 esports tournament the company announced it’s making a spinoff card game associated with its popular MOBA. Other than its name, Artifact, a brief teaser trailer and a release window of 2018, we didn’t get any details, but Dota fans have been dreaming up Hearthstone-like card game iterations for […]

Star Wars 8 The Last Jedi LEAK: Does THIS prove Luke has Snoke’s Darth Vader artifact?

As fans await the next Star Wars movie this Christmas, there has been much speculation surrounding the identity of Snoke, the role of Luke Skywalker and what’s going on between them. Now Star Wars theorist Mike Zeroh has revealed a leak he’s received from his Pinewood Studios source. In his new YouTube video, he said: […]