PC Gaming Weekly: Watch out, Hearthstone — here comes Artifact

Depending on your point of view, Valve’s news this week is either one heckuva tease or a knife in your Half-Life-lovin’ soul.

Late Tuesday night, the publisher of worldwide hits such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 announced Artifact, a digital card game (think Magic: The Gathering, but as a video game). We don’t know much more about it, but we are aware of this: If it follows the path of Dota 2 (from which it’ll draw its lore), Blizzard’s Hearthstone will soon have a big-time competitor in its rear-view mirror.