Magic: The Gathering Arena takes Friday Night Magic online as local stores shutter (Rock Paper Shotgun)

Rock Paper Shotgun: Magic: The Gathering Arena takes Friday Night Magic online as local stores shutter. “It’s not a great time for physical games. While us videogames lot are enjoying more time than ever to play, it’s practically impossible to run a weekly board or card game meet when all the shops are shut and any human interaction could lead to contracting a (potentially deadly) virus. In an effort to keep the magic alive, Wizards Of The Coast are running three weeks of special Friday Night Magic events to help MTG communities stay alive online with Magic: The Gathering Arena.”

‘Magic: The Gathering’ game maker exposed 452,000 players’ account data (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch: ‘Magic: The Gathering’ game maker exposed 452,000 players’ account data. “The maker of Magic: The Gathering has confirmed that a security lapse exposed the data on hundreds of thousands of game players. The game’s developer, the Washington-based Wizards of the Coast, left a database backup file in a public Amazon Web Services storage bucket. But there was no password on the storage bucket, allowing anyone to access the files inside.”

The Next Web: Why ‘Magic: The Gathering’ is AI’s toughest challenge

The Next Web: Why ‘Magic: The Gathering’ is AI’s toughest challenge. “Games make the perfect teaching environment for developers to train machine learning models in, but which game produces the strongest AI? You can put your money on DeepMind’s AlphaGo or OpenAI’s DotA 2-playing machine, but we’ll take whichever one is the first to master Magic: The Gathering – humanity’s hardest game.”