Hearthstone: a card game on a tablet done right

Growing up in the 1990s in the United States, collectable card games were all the rage. Be it Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh or Magic the Gathering, collecting cards and "battling" was the bee's knees. But in the tablet space, no one's done a card game justice - that is until Hearthstone.

Blizzard, the company behind video game mega hits such as Starcraft, Diablo and World of Warcraft, has come out swinging on tablet computing with their latest offering, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.

Taking part in the Warcraft universe, the player takes control of a hero in a series of one-on-one card duels using their respective decks. Each deck is made up of 30 cards comprised of spell, weapon or minion. Each player is given 30 life points; the game is over when one player is out of life. Sounds fairly pedestrian, but it's the simplicity of Hearthstone that makes it great.