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Hearthstone

Hearthstone is a free to play card game from Blizzard Entertainment which released on March 11, 2014. It received BAFTA award for the best multiplayer game. Available on PC and mobile.
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Starcraft celebrates 20th anniversary with goodies across Blizzard's lineup

Written insignia and logo for the game Starcraft 2 by Blizzard
Blizzard's Starcraft is celebrating its 20th anniversary and the company is celebrating in style, announcing a slew of goodies across their line up, which includes the likes of Diablo, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, etc.

Hearthstone getting annual refresh, will feature three expansions

A shield shaped wheel with a raven sign in the middle under a Hearthstone logo
It's that time of the year for Hearthstone, when Blizzard's card wielding addiction machine sheds the decks of old and comes out with the new. This time around, we'll have three expansions, a new hero, private matches and more.

Would you hand over your CPU power in exchange for some loot boxes?

The standard loot box in Overwatch
GammaNow is an app that uses your computer's CPU and GPU to mine cryptocurrency. Aurora, the company that developed the app gives you 'Gamma points' as rewards.

Activision Blizzard made over $4 billion on microtransactions in 2017

Aerial view of a war zone in Prague
Activision Blizzard's revenue from "in-game net bookings" reached $4 (£2.90) billion for 2017. Half of the money came from Candy Crush operator, King, and the other half came via their PC and console titles. EA reported $787 million in what it calls "live services" for the latest quarter.

Overwatch's new escort map and Blizzard's plans for gamescom

Blizzard just revealed a new escort map for Overwatch. The map is set in Australian Outback. A new animated short is to be revealed during the Blizzard Reveal Ceremony on Wednesday, 23 August.

Blizzard's gamescom 2017 lineup - from Overwatch to Diablo III

Blizzard will bring all kinds of cool content to gamescom 2017. Overwatch is getting a brand new map, Heathstone will get a new Hero and WoW will see its European Championship come to a close. More information will be revealed on Monday, 21 August.

Diablo 3 Necromancers, Orisa and Danny Pudi

What do Necromancers, an updated OR14 unit and Abed from Community have in common?

Hearthstone Price Changes

Price changes coming to Hearthstone

Hearthstone's next expansion

Card back design for Blizzard's Hearthstone: Journey to Un’Goro
Earlier this month, a voice actress's resume revealing a potential Hearthstone expansion was leaked teasing a possible expansion featuring Un’Goro

Blizzard dropping support for their games on Windows XP and Vista

Eight years ago, Microsoft ceased support for Wnidows XP, and the support for Vista was terminated in 2012