Hearthstone Archives

After a bit of a technical hiccup during the BlizzCon opening ceremony, Hearthstone announced a new expansion coming in December Rastakhan's Rumble will be coming to the game on December 4th as the last addition to the Year of the Raven that will add a few new elements to the game and change a few[...]

credit//Blizzard Entertainment Last week, Blizzard teased a few balance changes that would be coming to Hearthstone in a future patch, and the Hearthstone team has taken to their blog today to give the full details on the upcoming changes As far as major balance patches go, the update affects only three cards, but they will have some interesting[...]

It's been a pretty short tournament this time around, but we're finally at the finals of the Hearthstone 2018 HCT Fall Championship When we started this tournament, no one figured we would be seeing two North American players in the finals, but here we are with one of the more unpredictable endings as we see bloodyface from the[...]

We're back at the Blizzard Arena this month for the Hearthstone HCT Fall Championship, for the second day of battles to get to the Fall title Today we're looking at the top four as they battle it out for the rights to go onto the finals and decide the championship. credit//Blizzard Entertainment Semifinals Match: bloodyface vs[...]

We're back at the Blizzard Arena this month for the Hearthstone HCT Fall Championship, for the second day of battles to get to the Fall title Today we're looking at the top eight as we make our way through the quarterfinals to decide who will be in the final four. credit//Blizzard Entertainment Quarterfinals Match: bloodyface vs[...]

We're back at the Blizzard Arena this month for the Hearthstone HCT Fall Championship, whittling down the top 16 to crown a new champion of the season We're here for the first of two days open to the public to watch the matches as we cover them live here in the arena Here are the[...]

We're back at the Blizzard Arena this month for the Hearthstone HCT Fall Championship, whittling down the top 16 to crown a new champion of the season We're here for the first of two days open to the public to watch the matches as we cover them live here in the arena Here are the[...]

This morning, Blizzard released a ton of details about new updates coming to Hearthstone, including new classic cards and a Halloween event on the way You can check out the press release we have for you below, including some of the new classic cards. credit//Blizzard New Player Experience Improvements We'd like to ease new players into Hearthstone a little[...]

One of the cool pieces of info we received this week with the partnership between Blizzard and Tespa is that the Hearthstone Collegiate Championship would return The series is set to kick off this fall with a good chunk of prize money on the line that any college kid could sorely use Here are the details below[...]

Those of you hoping for some new cards in Hearthstone will get your wish as Blizzard has announced a new expansion coming August 7th. The Boomsday Project will bring in 135 new cards to the game, which includes several new Legendary Spells, Project Spells, and Omega cards We have the official description of the expansion from Blizzard[...]

This week, we got word that both Hearthstone and StarCraft II would be the headlining esports titles for the upcoming Asian Games The word came down from Blizzard, excited to let people know of the decision that two of their biggest esports titles would be featured Here are a few details from the company. The second-largest[...]

This week at the Hearthstone 2018 HCT Summer Championship has been one of the longest tournaments we've seen played in a while But after some amazing fights, a few bad ones, a rage quit, and an amazing reverse sweep near the end, we make it to the finals with A83650 from Poland going up against Bunnyhoppor from Germany in[...]

After two sweeps followed by two of the longest matches of the entire tournament, we made our way into the Hearthstone 2018 HCT Summer Championship Semifinals. credit//Blizzard Semifinal Match One: A83650 vs killinallday Winner: A83650 (3-0) A8 took an early lead after killin tried to force him into a situation that would have given him a great position, but[...]

After yesterday's long run of games where most of them went the distance, we get to the Quarterfinals of the Hearthstone 2018 HCT Summer Championship Today is the best of the best who have made it this far with four from the European set of players making it this far Here's how the day played out! credit//Blizzard Quarterfinal[...]

We're live on site at the Blizzard Arena in Los Angeles for the finals of the Hearthstone HCT 2018 Summer Championship to crown a new champ As we watched the matches live on the floor along with the rest of the press, the crowd slowly poured in to see who would be going onto Sunday's competition with[...]

We're live on site at the Blizzard Arena in Los Angeles for the finals of the Hearthstone HCT 2018 Summer Championship to crown a new champ As we watched the matches live on the floor along with the rest of the press, the crowd slowly poured in to see who would be going on to Sunday's[...]

Today, Blizzard released a brand new update for Hearthstone that will bring in some much-needed improvements in certain areas, but the primary focus of the additions are to bring in the new Taverns of Time event and Free Pack Day The latter will occur on June 13th where all you need to do is log[...]

We are well positioned to continue playing a leading role in shaping the future of entertainment." Located in Booth #U202 the Activision Blizzard products coming to Licensing Expo 2018 include: Activision Highlights: Call of Duty: New partners McFarlane (Collectible Figures) USAopoly (Risk and Monopoly board games in North America) Pyramid (Homeware, Accessories) Poetic Gem (Apparel) Park Agency (Knitwear) Clairefontaine (Stationery) Returning partners Mattel (Collectible Construction Sets) Exquisite Gaming (Cable Guys, Crates) KontrolFreek (Gaming Controller Accessories) Bioworld International (Apparel, Accessories) Astro Gaming (Headsets) Trends (Poster & Calendars) Crash[...]

credit// Blizzard Blizzard has announced a number of sweeping changes that will be coming to Hearthstone's Witchwood expansion once the HCT Playoffs are complete The changes are pretty much all nerfs, with many cards now costing quite a deal more mana, in order to make Witchwood gameplay a bit more even Two of the biggest changes target warlocks[...]

The breakdown by publisher is also pretty indicative of current gaming trends — King, the company's mobile publisher, had 285 million monthly active users, with daily time spent per user at record levels; Activision had 51 million monthly active users as Call of Duty grew its audience year-over-year with players picking up games across the franchise,[...]

In a bit of a surprising move, Ben Brode, who has basically been one of the biggest names at Blizzard and one of the most recognizable people when it comes to Hearthstone as the game's director, announced on Friday he was leaving the company. In a message left on the forums, Brode expressed his gratitude to[...]

Hearthstone's newest expansion The Witchwood brings a whole lot of new content with it, including a brand new monster hunting mode, new cards, and new ways to play the game However, while Bizzard have been pretty forthcoming about all of the meta changes coming with the expansion, they've been rather quiet on the release date for[...]

The next expansion for Blizzard's Warcraft trading card game, Hearthstone, will include the haunted boughs of The Witchwood, which will bring 135 new cards, complete with some spooky new game mechanics And yes, there will be a witch or two for you to burn in that massive card drop. If you need some background on the titular forest itself,[...]

Hearthstone's Arena Draft Mode is getting updated this month, which will bring some interesting changes to the deck building challenge mode As it stands, The Arena requires players to build a 30-card deck from a random selection of cards, and then go forth and battle other players to test their deck-building skills. Because of the random[...]

Hearthstone is entering its next year, Year of the Raven, which will come with a new Standard format, a new expansion, and a new druid hero Lunara The new Standard format will introduce an updated card set rotation that should drastically change the game's meta, and lead into more exploration and variety in deck types,[...]

So for some time, there has been this rumor going around on Reddit that Blizzard was gearing up to release HearthStone on the Nintendo Switch And why not? The game is super popular and is already made for tablets, why not port it over to the newest console on the market that uses a touchscreen? It makes[...]

Blizzard has gone live with Hearthstone update 10.2 today which brings a few balance changes to the game in addition to some Wild Events in celebration of the Year of the Mammoth Wild Events will run from February 19th to March 11th, including Wild Arena and two tavern brawls: Venture into the Wild and The Wild[...]

Hearthstone fans need to brace themselves, for Blizzard has changes on the way for the Ranked Play system coming in March, some for the best and some that will surely anger many Below are the details released by the company today, but the big news is that players will now have their ranks reset four[...]

ESL UK has confirmed the ESL Premiership Hearthstone finals will take place on Saturday, January 6th and Sunday, January 7th 2018 at ESL Studio One in Leicester, England The eight finalists qualified for the tournament are Deathsie, BoarControl, ColdHands, ToastMonster, Big Ben, Danswf, HelloLeeroy and Mysterious Because apparently, if your name is not some sort of reference,[...]

Hearthstone has just launched its Kobolds and Catacombs expansion, and Blizzard has just put out a pretty wild trailer to get people excited. The pretend-'80s/'90s film or ad thing is pretty played out at this point, but even that being the case, this is pretty charming Based on the look of old fantasy films and TV shows, it's[...]