Hearthstone: PVDDR on Playing to Win vs Playing Not to Lose

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Hearthstone: Naxxramas First Wing Free Unlock ending soon

Blizzard reports the event ending on September 30 but according to earlier reports, it should be ending at the first month of the launch event which should be the end of the August.

If you haven't gotten it or want to start a new region, you have some time before the first wing starts costing money/gold.

Note: You need to complete the tutorial plus unlock all characters before you can access the first wing to permanently unlock it for free.

Hearthstone: How to win with mindgames (Not the Priest card)

HearthPwn forum thread on the "Well Played/Sorry Strategy"

Conversely, you should also not concede easily unless you are sure your opponent has lethal.

Hearthstone: MtG Hall of Fame-r Brian Kibler Sunshine Open Tournament decks

How to Make the Finals of your First Hearthstone Tournament with Decks You've Never Played

I think the advice for people interested in taking part in Hearthstone Tournaments is to be good with a variety of classes. Relying on one is usually enough for laddering but with the tournament formats we've been seeing, it is definitely not enough.

Brian's Priest and Druid decks are interesting because they do not follow the usual deck-lists that most people run. I think we can look forward to more innovating decks and card choices from him in the near future.

Hearthstone: Another MtG Hall of Fame-r started streaming Hearthstone

Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa who wrote the Channel Fireball article on Hearthstone for Magic Players has just started streaming!

Hearthstone: Making of Hearthstone AI video

Link to Gamasutra site

It may be a little technical but is only around 22 minutes long. I think it is fascinating to find out how the AI for Hearthstone works.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal World Duel Carnival English version for 3DS: Read the reviews first!

I was looking forward to the first Yu-GI-Oh game for 3DS. It has been missing from all handheld consoles for a long time. (I'm not considering Yu-Gi-Oh BAM) I missed out that the English version was already out for the Europe region in June this year as I haven't been checking the 3DS scene for a while. 3DS is region-locked so I'll still be waiting for the US region in September 2014 but I have second thoughts after reading the Europe version reviews:

Nintendo Life review

Nintendo World Report Review

Other reviews at Metacritic

This latest version has no multiplayer mode which is really peculiar. On top of that, a lot of features in the English version were cut from the Japanese version: "no Duelist Profiles, no Ending Pictures, no Photos, all Sleeves and Mats are unlocked from the start and there is no Device or Database modes. The only playable characters are Yuma, Astral, ZEXAL, Tori, Reginald, Kite, Dr. Faker, Vetrix, Trey, Quattro, Alito & Konami-kun (aka Tag Force's Hat Guy)." from the Wikia page.

I read that the cards, play mat and card protector designs are unlocked at the start. As much as I dislike grinding cards to improve decks for PvP in Hearthstone, being able to slowly improve a deck card by card is fun, especially in a story mode scenario.

The screenshots I saw were not very attractive as well but with so little content offered, I'm already not sure if I want to buy it at all. Here's the official product page with the listed features and I don't think much will be changed between the Europe and US region release.