Official Site:Â Hearthstone
Studio:Â Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date:Â March 11, 2014
Genre:Â MMOTCG
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Mac, Mobile
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Hearthstone: Festival of Legends hits the stage with 145 new cards
Sound the trumpet, blast the confetti, and crank up the volume: Hearthstone's latest expansion is here, and boy is it a boisterous one. Festival...
Hearthstone’s latest patch outlines an upcoming event for Festival of Legends and balances several cards
Tuesday, April 11th, will kick off the Festival of Legends expansion for Hearthstone, and the digital card game is celebrating its arrival with an...
The MOP Up: Hearthstone welcomes the Year of the Wolf
The Year of the Wolf is coming to Hearthstone: "Throughout the Year of the Wolf, we’ll be focusing our efforts on making Hearthstone and...
Hearthstone strikes up the band and readies concert goodness in April’s Festival of Legends expansion
What happens when you mix a battle of the bands with a digital CCG? We're all going to find out when Hearthstone releases its...
Fight or Kite: The Witcher card game GWENT checks off a lot of the right boxes – but too many of the wrong ones
Continuing on my journey to digital card game bliss, I chose to try out a game I had mentally filed as one of the...
Hearthstone adjusts the armor of Battlegrounds heroes and applies a list of bug fixes
Armor is important when you're going into a battlefield, so those who enjoy playing the Battlegrounds mode of Hearthstone will likely want to pay...
Hearthstone’s Mercenaries mode will get one last major patch that adds new mercs, mechanics, and endgame
If you're a regular player of the Mercenaries game mode in Hearthstone, then we have good news and bad news: The game is going...
Activision-Blizzard Q4 2022: Blizzard revenues, MAUs spike thanks to WoW Dragonflight and Overwatch 2
Welcome back to our inevitable coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials: Today's edition sums up Q4's results, comprising October, November, and December 2022. Let's break it...
The Soapbox: Subscriptions might actually be the next big innovation in digital card games
What started earlier this week as a rant on how bad an idea a subscription model in Hearthstone would be evolved into something more:...
Hearthstone applies balance adjustments to Battlegrounds, Duels, and several of its latest cards
With Hearthstone's March of the Lich King expansion now almost two months old, the devs of the online CCG have had time to take...
The Soapbox: Comparing the monetization of physical and digital card games
Earlier this week, we reported on the recent Blizzard survey about a possible Hearthstone sub. When I read the news, I almost choked on...
WoW Factor: Brian Birmingham’s ousting and the ever-deepening rot at Blizzard
Talking about this company is always so exhausting, but let's do a quick recap: Brian Birmingham was, up until recently, one of the top...
Blizzard polls players about a Hearthstone sub as it scales back esports
We begin this article by noting right up front that Blizzard is terribly fond of floating bad ideas in surveys and then saying, Ha...
Hearthstone revs up Battlegrounds Season 3 for next week
The third season of Hearthstone's Battlegrounds is set to kick off on January 17th under the careful tutelage of Professor Putricide. Wait, where did...
Hearthstone hands out free gifts for Winter Veil
Have you been naughty or nice this year? Arthas doesn't care; the Lich King is going to reward any who come to his Hearthstone...
Overwatch 2 launches Winter Wonderland this week
It's time to mark the wintery season in both Hearthstone and Overwatch 2 as both games have lined up their seasonal events for the......
Hearthstone: March of the Lich King arrives today with the Death Knight and 145 new cards
You can't keep a powerful lich king down! We mean that literally: You bury one, and it'll pop back up in the morning with...
Hearthstone preps March of the Lich King set with new patch
It's not quite launch day for Hearthstone's newest card set, March of the Lich King, but that's not going to stop Blizzard from being...
WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, and more to sunset in China following failed Blizzard-Netease licensing deal
Last week, as part of its Q3 2022 investor report, Activision-Blizzard included what we described as an ominous note about its apparent difficulties negotiating...
Hearthstone applies updates to Battlegrounds and Arenas, Overwatch releases a new novel
We're pulling together the news from Hearthstone and Overwatch together into their own combined story simply because they're kind of teeny on their own...
