Our latest coverage of Hearthstone.
Latest data from Superdataresearch shows that the digital collectible card game market is set to generate $1.4B in revenue in 2017. Of the entire collectible card game market (including physical CCGs), digital CCGs made up 61% of the market. Hearthstone led the pack in 2016 with worldwide earnings of $395M and Shadowverse trailed at #2 and surprised everyone with $100M [...]
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In a silent move, Blizzard has stripped the subtitle "Heroes Of Warcraft" from Hearthstone. It's not the first name Blizzard has parted ways with. Back in September the company announced Battle.net was being sent to a retirement home. Blizzard seems to be in the midst of rebranding: simplifying their IPs. To solidify the change Blizzard even asked the admins at [...]
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Hamilton Chu unveiled the latest expansion to Hearthstone today at Blizzcon called "Mean Streets of Gadgetzan". As the name of the expansion implies, many of the new cards are themed around Gadgetzan, the bustling goblin town of trade and commerce. Aside from a slew of cards, a new mechanic is being introduced this expansion called tri-class cards. Certain cards across the 3 [...]
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Newzoo has released a new report detailing the "Most Played Core PC Games in September" and there are a few interesting notes included. While it hasn't knocked League of Legends out of its #1 most played spot, the release of Legion saw World of Warcraft shoot up three ranks, knocking Minecraft, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Hearthstone down one place each. While [...]
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Barely breaking a sweat during your free weekly Tavern Brawl sessions on Hearthstone? Well, things are about to get a lot more challenging as Blizzard Entertainment introduces the new Heroic Tavern Brawl mode. In a recent dev update, Blizzard announced its plans to replace a regular Tavern Brawl week with a one-week stint of the new mode. The Heroic Tavern [...]
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Do you regret naming yourself "xX_Reaper432_Xx" the moment Overwatch came out? Maybe you've decided that you like playing as McCree more or perhaps you've just run into one too many other Reapers and it's hard to tell when someone's talking to you. In the past, you would have been stuck with that name for all eternity, wondering why you ever [...]
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Blizzard announced late last night that Hearthstone's next adventure will be called One Night In Karazhan. The story of this adventure is that you're invited to a party at "Azeroth’s most terrific tower—Karazhan" as a guest of the wizard Medivh. The adventure will introduce new cards, a new board, new class challenges, and more, most of the details of which [...]
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Don't think you can make it to BlizzCon 2016? Blizzard has you covered with the BlizzCon 2016 Virtual Ticket and Goody Bag, both of which were announced yesterday. The Virtual Ticket, which costs $39.99, entitles you to livestreams of the event. "On-demand replays" will be available "for at least three weeks after the show." Various in-game items for "World of [...]
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Blizzard announced today via press release that it has teamed up with Facebook to bring Facebook login integration to its games, as well as use "Facebook’s Live API in order to create its own 'Go Live' streaming functionality for its games." The new set of features resulting from the partnership will be available in the following titles: Diablo III, Hearthstone, [...]
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Today was a good day for Activision Blizzard shareholders (ticker ATVI) as the company reported $1.46 billion in revenue for the quarter ended March 31, 2016 (vs $1.28 billion in the same quarter last year). These numbers handedly beat expectations and the company's stock soared over 6%, making the company worth a bit over $27 billion. Aside from posting stellar revenue [...]
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