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Slowly, but steadily, GwentSlam has turned into an event which the Gwent community looks forward to each month. The casual, laid-back atmosphere created by the lovely duo of hosts and tourney organizers, Lifecoach and his wife Mirijam, make it most certainly a unique tournament - a nice change of pace from the intensity and stressful competition of the other tournaments, as the falls are softened by the delicious catering and legendary ball pit. Come December 2nd, both players and viewers alike will have an opportunity to enjoy few rounds of Gwent, Austrian-style.

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CD Projekt Red have released an update on the release date of Thronebreaker - The Gwent single player campaign. The release has been pushed to 2018, but despair not fellow Gwentlers. There is good news too. According to Marcin Iwiński , the tempo of the release of new content is going to increase, and we are to see more cosmetics and new cards alike. You can read more in the official post below:

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Hello everyone! For those of you that don’t know me, I’m GlutenSnake, a Gwent streamer and aspiring pro player (cue the requisite haHAA here). I find that over the months of the beta where we’ve seen Gwent continue to grow, I’ve been fascinated by its complex mechanics and the skillset required to play - and the rewards that you can reap for putting in time and effort. Even without much of a card game background other than YuGiOh years ago, I managed to break Grandmaster in my very first season of the game, season 1 Open Beta - while still being F2P. So I’m here to say If I can do it, so can you (trust me, so can you!).

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In this week’s Gwentlemen Talkshow we have a special guest - Ash. Ash is a cosplayer and a member of team Fade 2 Karma. She hosts a Round of Gwent with CDPR and streams regularly. This week we talk about the current meta including the state of spies and Skellige, how we feel about Monsters, and the secret strength of Northern Realms. We make predictions for the upcoming Gwent Open, and discuss the Challenger. We also talk about GwentSlam and the special Gwentlemen Open: Harvest Sign up here.

For more from Ash you can find her on her twitch.

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Guest contributor Philo dives into the mechanics of improving your day-to-day Gwent performance by working smarter, not harder.

People play a game like Gwent for various reasons.  Some play as a mere diversion.  Others play to explore card effects and interactions.  Others play because their friends play.  These are all great reasons to play Gwent.  This series, however, is not specifically directed towards these individuals – though they still may find some value here.  Rather, the people I seek to assist the most here are those who seek to become more competitive and successful at Gwent by that metric, but are having trouble finding their footing.  In other words, this is a piece more focused the Spikes, rather than the Timmys or the Johnnys, if you’re familiar with the Magic the Gathering-rooted terminology that has since been applied to many CCGs, physical and digital alike.