John Bedford [Metabomb]: If you're just catching up on the news, a pretty big change was made to Arena just ahead of the Frozen Throne launch last week. The first two cards you'll be presented with in each draft will now have a certain synergy with one another, thus laying the groundwork for you to build a more thematically interesting deck that can exploit those foundational synergies.
It's an interesting enough idea to shake the mode up, but the problem here - beyond Blizzard making barely a mention of the change publicly - is that some of those synergies are 100% jank, while others are comparatively god-like. You feel compelled to build your deck around the poor synergies because it's the best shot you've got though, even knowing that you'll be running up against people with better luck than you, and not necessarily better judgement.
Jacob St-Amour from Link-Cable Writes: "We take a break from our WoW focused week by the warmth of the Hearth and playing some Hearthstone, specifically with the games chilly new expansion – Knights of the Frozen Throne. Now, I have done reviews for Hearthstone expansions in the past but chose to not do them anymore since the game changes and evolves so much between that time and with some being free while others paid, it becomes difficult to gauge the value between them, but Knights of the Frozen Throne does deserve much recognition as it sets the example for each future iteration of Hearthstone moving forward."
EB: It’s safe to say that the summer video game drought will have passed after this week. Tuesday will end up putting a hefty dent in your wallet, and whatever’s left will probably go towards Thursday’s releases.
Blizzard just unveiled their hardest Hearthstone solo adventure yet, the battle against the Lich King himself. Your goal? Defeat the Lich King with all nine classes in order to unlock a special Arthas paladin hero.
The only problem? The Lich King cheats…and cheats hard.
