MonsterVine: "It’s not every day that a new genre appears, seemingly full formed, but that’s how it went with Auto Chess. One minute I was waiting for the 10,000th Battle Royale or Survival Crafting clone to arrive so I could make fun of them, and the next minute people were suddenly talking about Auto Chess. I wondered–as you may be wondering now–”What the hell is Auto Chess?”"
Since launching in May 2020, the PlayStation Tournaments Open Series has brought players together from across the globe to compete in and enjoy their favorite competitive games. Players earned respect through hundreds of monthly Open Series Tournaments around the world and found community during hundreds of hours of Open Series broadcasts. We are excited to help even more players elevate their competitive play to the next level as we welcome three new titles to the Open Series in July.
Already available on PC via Epic Games Store, iOS, Android and PlayStation 4, Auto Chess will soon land on PS5, as just announced by the developer Drodo
At this point in the six-year history of Blizzard Entertainment's collectible card game, Hearthstone, it's almost routine that long-time professional player and content creator David "Dog" Caero will, at one point or another, break the speed at which he plays. Back in 2018, Dog was known for mastering a one-turn-kill combo that required as much APM (action per minute) as it did brainpower to pull off. For a casual player tuning in to watch his stream on Twitch, it was mesmerizing and inconceivable to see so many moving pieces on a 2D board in a game that, by definition, aims to limit the number of actions a player can make in a single turn by having a mana cap.
