Latest articles by Luke Winkie
How this WoW millionaire's laziness made him Azeroth's most famous financial guru
Cha-ching! The Lazy Goldmaker has turned his penchant for making exorbitant amounts of gold into a business all its own.
Google Engineers, PhD students and child geniuses: Meet the new breed of Hearthstone pros
Mind Control For all the jokes about a 'children’s card game', some very smart people are now playing Hearthstone competitively.
Why these World of Warcraft diehards can't stop playing its most hated expansion
Catacylsm For better and for worse, Cataclysm was the expansion that changed everything. And these people prefer it that way.
Breach hands-on: co-op dungeon crawling that 'changes every time you play'
Exclusive Creative character building takes the spotlight in this free-to-play asymmetrical action-RPG from ex-BioWare devs.
Breach is an ambitious action-RPG from ex-BioWare devs, first trailer revealed
Exclusive Exclusive: Breach promises RPG-like depth, an open class system, and third-person action mechanics.
Hearthstone's latest one-turn-kill combo is so absurdly complicated that streamers keep messing it up
Sick Combo The deck might not be good, but pulling it off is easily the most convoluted way to make your opponent rage quit.
Madden NFL 19 review
Safety Madden 19 marks the franchise's return to PC after more than a decade, no worse for wear.
What it's like to launch an indie game in 2018, hour-by-hour
Semblance An inside look at the highs and lows of trying to make it on Steam with a platformer like Semblance.
Meet the streamer making Guitar Hero cool again, one insanely hard song at a time
Jammin Acai makes popular videos with the Guitar Hero versions of ROM hacks: custom songs designed to be brutally hard.
A look at the thriving Dark Souls ASMR scene
Whispers Dark Souls ASMR is a thing, and we spoke to one if its creators.
We played Hitman 2's Sniper Assassin Mode and here's what we thought
Bang It's a nice day for (shooting up) a white wedding.
Code Vein is a surprisingly fun Souls-like with giant anime swords
Vamping Seriously, these swords are very big.
Forza Horizon 4 is a sequel of tasteful innovations and gorgeous seasons
All terrain We check out the Britain-set racing game's E3 demo.
I played Jump Force and spent the entire time beating the hell out of Naruto
Kamehameha Sorry-not-sorry for making Jump Force my own personal anime torture device.
Terraria review
Digging it Seven years later, Terraria is still one of the best adventures out there.
For shooter wunderkind Shroud, esports fame was a stop on the way to Twitch superstardom
Headshot Shroud's retirement at 23 holds a message for the esports scene: for the fearsomely talented, streaming on Twitch is a more lucrative career.
SpyParty's long journey to Steam
Interview The multiplayer social espionage game that's taken nine years to make, and still isn't done.
What it's like making a living from designing Twitch emotes
28x28 "Never settle for less than minimum wage," says illustrator Allison Henderson.
Reynad on turning away from Hearthstone to make his own dream card game
Noodling The Tempo Storm entrepreneur, Twitch globetrotter, and these days only sometime ladder salt lord now has his own deck-builder in development.
Encumbrance sucks, so why is it still so common?
Heavy If everyone hates being over-encumbered, why do so many big games still rely on it to keep your inventory under control?
The original EverQuest is so unhelpful and severe that it almost feels modern
Time Machine What it's like to play vintage EverQuest in 2018.
Update: Blizzard is taking feedback about whether to change Hearthstone's bonkers Shudderwock combo
News At the very least, the absurdly long animations have got to go.
