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It happens every year. Every year, without fail, at around this time, “real” news [and I use the word in inverted commas, because really – game releases and hints at game releases aren’t really “news” at all. They’re – at best – terrible product placement] drops right off the radar.
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Links open in new pages Magic: The Gathering is a great game with a troubling digital history. In one sense, it’s really sad, because Hearthstone is immeasurably polished – a thing that Blizzard is absurdly good at. And where Blizzard have gone, others have attempted to follow, because surely, if
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