dub3 card · www.hardcoregamer.com
Hardcore Gamer (2006)
High score: you, for now.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: If an enemy card was revealed here earlier this round, +2 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 6 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 2006
A video game news website that began in 2005 as a print magazine called Hardcore Gamer.
The magazine ran from June 2005 to winter 2009. It later became an online-only publication, and Valnet acquired it in 2023.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2006 page.
Put it on your site
Run Hardcore Gamer, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2006, then plays a short scene. Want Hardcore Gamer in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
