Lok’tar Ogoddamnitilagged Last week was a bit shit for EUHearthstoneplayers.As reported by PC Gamer, server problems and lag really made it a pain in the arse to play, and some players even dropped out of their games early, resulting in them being counted as a loss. As an apology for this,Blizzard has announcedthat every player in the EU whose account was made before May 3 will receive two of the original packs for free....

Harmonix will live stream some Christmas craziness for the Child’s Play charity today. From 5pm to 8pm Eastern they’ll host a holiday-themed stream to raise money for the kids. This stream will feature interviews with Harmonix staff, and they’ll talk aboutRock Band,Dance Central,VidRhythm, and more. I’m hearing that you should plan to hear reveals and other announcements forRock BandandDance Central. They’ll also be giving away lots of DLC codes as well as showing off some new social features for their games....

Legendary game designer Chris Metzen hasofficially returned to Blizzardin a full-time role. He will now serve as the Executive Creative Director of theWarcraftuniverse with a main focus onWorld of Warcraftin particular. According to the announcement, Metzen will be at the upcomingBlizzCon 2023to share what’s next for theWarcraftuniverse. At previous BlizzCon’s Metzen was often the one to reveal new expansions, which fans have surely missed. ForWarcraftfans, this is amazing news. Metzen was instrumental in creating the overall story, world-building, and creative design of theWarcraftuniverse....

It’s clearly the Mario Kart 8 free game offer Remember, you can registerMario Kart 8today fora free Wii U game from the select list, but it appears as if there’s a massive amount of traffic on the site at the moment, and the login servers have been hit pretty hard. I’ve been experiencing a number of outages for the past few hours, and many others report that they can’t redeem their code....

Remember when I posted the Club Nintendo offerings for this month, and I said I was unsure of what would happen aftera mysterious mid-month deadlineforElectroplankton Rec-Rec? Club Nintendo wasn’t kidding, asRec-Recis completely out, in favor of Q-Games’Starship Defense(eShop, 150 coins). For those of you who aren’t familiar with Q-Games, they’re the lovely people that make thePixelJunk games, as well as a number of DSiWare and first party Nintendo titles. Just as a note, even though the game is technically a DSiWare title, the code from Club Nintendo can only be redeemed on a 3DS....

Winky face! Hey, there, Destructoid! What’s good? What’s happening? You know that E3 was last week, so there’s a chance with all of the press conferences to watch, or all of the videogame news to follow, that you couldn’t havepossiblyvisited every single article, much less the comment sections. I mean, you have to be some kind of no-life loser to go through all that. Yo, that’s why I’m here! Welcome back to Comments of the Week!...

‘No additional content in the works’ If you’re still playingCrash Team Racing Nitro-Fueledand have been thinking “I wonder when the next update is,” you should probably get your expectations in check. That update this past March? That was seemingly the end for our little Bandicoot racer. Taking to Twitter, developer Beenox just clarified that “the march update with the Beenox Pack was our final update to the game.” They state that “there is no additional content in the works,” due to “being hard at work on some other incredible projects....

Pump up the jam Reikon Games’ cyberpunk twin-stick shooterRUINERis worth a second look this week. With today’s Annihilation update, the studio has added a 10-stage Arena: Colosseum mode with online leaderboards, four new finishers, and two unlockable outfits. It’s available now on PC. PS4 and Xbox One players will get Annihilation “in the next few days,” and it’ll come withpreviously PC-onlybonuses like New Game+, Speedrun mode, and new weapons, finishing moves, and outfits....

[In Divnich Divines, EEDAR Vice President and videogame analystJesse Divnichtraverses the bogs of sales data, hype, and good old fashioned game geekery to give you his two cents on hot topics in the games industry] The PlayStation Vita will launch in key Western markets in a little over a month and so far the high-tech handheld has had a rough start in Japan. Sony announced at CES that it had sold500,000 unitssince its December 17 launch, but over 324,000 of those were sold in the first week....

Check out our full schedule of live content! As ever, there’s a weekend’s worth of great live content being run on Dtoid TV, including an early peek atDeadly Premonition: The Director’s Cuttonight at 8pm Pacific! We’ll be kicking things off right now with Saturday Morning Hangover where Jordan, Katrina and I will be playing a little Labyrinth Legends and checking out all the wonderous additions to the Dafoeverse. And, on Sunday, Jonathan Holmes will be speaking with the designers behindKrunch!...

The King of Egypt 2 Evolution is now live inEA FC 25, and you can upgrade a card of your choice with stat boosts, playstyles, and more. This evolution is similar to the first King of Egypt one, but there are subtle differences. Let’s take a look at all the requirements, followed by the upgrades and the best players to use. EA FC 25 King of Egypt 2 Evolution requirements Here are the requirements for King of Egypt 2 Evolution inEA FC 25....

Well Merry freakin’ Christmas to us! Square Enix sent us this piece ofFinal Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearersart to share exclusively with the Destructoid community. In the piece, we see one of the heroes from the new game casting some kind of spell. Or maybe he’s pulling an Indiana Jones and using an energy whip to swing across the buildings. Either way, he looks happy! Our review forFinal Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearerswent up on the site this past week and Jonathan Holmes really enjoyed the new game: ” … I think it can stand proudly along side other risky, under-appreciated Squaresoft classics likeBrave Fencer MusashiandTobal 2....

I want to be…part of this worlddddddd Atlus Japan has shared the full intro forDragon’s Crown, and it’s looking great. It has pretty much everything you’d expect, from character vignettes, to a general look at the world and its riches, to actual dragons. Well, it has everything buta dancing mouse, of course. A number of us on staff at Destructoid have been following this project pretty closely, and are extremely excited to see what it can offer....