Our latest coverage of Hearthstone.
The Lich King gets a taste of what mere mortals go through during a job interview at Blizzard Entertainment in the hilarious new Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne promotional video. In the video, the Lich King is interviewed by Game Director Ben Brode himself, which, surprisingly doesn’t go too well for the mighty Lord of the Scourge. Find out [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment announced their latest expansion to Hearthstone today titled Knights of the Frozen Throne. As the name of the expansion suggests, the expansion is set in Northrend where players will confront the Lich King and be raised as Death Knights. The new expansion introduces: 135 New cards Legendary hero cards that, when played, transforms players into Death Knights New [...]
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Blizzard is looking to kill two birds with one stone with their upcoming patches for Overwatch and Hearthstone, by implementing changes in the loot systems in both games to reduce the frequency of duplicate items received. In Overwatch's latest developer update, Jeff Kaplan explains that the reduction of duplicates coming to the lootbox system should be "immediately evident and extremely [...]
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The latest Hearthstone patch now makes it possible for players to instantly copy and import decklists. This allows you to easily try out your friend’s killer mage deck, or your favorite streamers awesome paladin deck. You can also share your own decks for other players to try out for themselves. In addition to Deck Importing, the patch now allows players [...]
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Blizzard announced that Hearthstone passed the 70 million player milestone earlier today in an official blog post. Who knew 70 million was akin to a quinceañera? I didn't. Of course, that doesn't indicate the number of players currently hopping online in a 24 hour period, but the number of total unique players who have tried Hearthstone over the game's lifetime. [...]
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Hearthstone's latest expansion, Journey to Un'Goro, went live earlier this week, as was previously announced. The expansion introduces 135 new cards, new Quest cards that reward players with various bonuses in exchange for completing the task noted on the Quest card, Elementals that leave behind "latent energy" that can later be used by other Elementals, and more. The expansion also [...]
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The next Hearthstone expansion, Journey to Un'Goro, will go live on April 6th for both mobile and PC devices. Over 135 new cards will be available to collect and use. And the expansion marks the beginning of the Year of the Mammoth. The expansion introduces Quest cards, unique legendary cards that have requirements to be completed; finish them and you [...]
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When Hearthstone's calendar flips to the first page that says Year of the Mammoth a celebration riddled with festivities will begin. Who wants to party? While the first Mammoth Tavern Brawl took place on March 15th, another one is due to arrive March 29th, and reward Journey to Un'Goro card packs—if you win. What else is in store you may [...]
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Last September, Blizzard Entertainment announced that it would be retiring the Battle.net moniker and replacing it with generic "Blizzard" branding for all of its products. At the time, the company stated that its reason for doing so was that "there’s been occasional confusion and inefficiencies related to having two separate identities under which everything falls—Blizzard and Battle.net." It's a pretty [...]
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Blizzard is bringing the banhammer and currently seeking a hefty $8.5 million in damages against German-based hack distributor and creator "Bossland GmbH". The ongoing lawsuit, first filed by Blizzard in California on July 1st, 2016 - accuses Bossland of trafficking "circumvention tools" and copyright infringement under the DMCA, as well as unfair competition from the profits of these violations. Despite [...]
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