PC Gaming Weekly: Hearthstone’s mobile client is holding back the PC experience

As the innkeeper says, “Busy night … but there’s always room for another.” In this case, that busy night could mean tens of millions of players. Blizzard Entertainment has been welcoming a lot of new gamers in recent years — yet nothing has brought in as many players as Hearthstone, the studio’s digital card game. […]

How a Video Game Chat Client Became the Web’s New Cesspool of Abuse

Illustration: Elena Scotti Over 25 million users have flocked to Discord, a text and voice platform for gamers, since its launch in May of 2015. Despite the company raising at least 30 million in venture capital funding, the company has only five “customer experience” personnel and no moderators on its staff. From what I’ve seen, […]