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Heroes Of The Storm

Heroes of the Storm is Blizzard's multiplayer online battle arena which features various characters from Blizzard's franchises such as Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft and Overwatch. The game released on June 2, 2015, for PC and macOS.
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All Heroes of the Storm heroes are free to play for two weeks

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Blizzard is joining the stay at home promotion on several fronts. Besides offering experience boost in World of Warcraft, they are also offering all Heroes of the Storm characters for free to try but not to keep, until 2 April 2020.

Heroes of the Storm will focus on non-original characters for now

Heroes of the Storm has been hit when Blizzard cut off the esports part but the game is still pumping out new heroes regularly. Now it seems the developers will focus on heroes from existing franchises in the future, instead of new ones.

Anduin Wrynn is coming to Heroes of the Storm in near future

A screenshot from World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth trailer featuring a closeup on king Anduin Wrynn who looks a lot like Brad Pitt.
Heroes of the Storm is a mashup of many recognisable faces from several Blizzard games, including World of Warcraft. HotS already featured one King of Stormwind and the game will soon receive the current on - Anduin Wrynn himself.

Heroes of the Storm update ditching paid loot boxes

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Although Heroes of the Storm's esports aspirations have fallen prey to Activision Blizzard's cost-cutting, the game is still alive and kicking, with the latest update announcing the end of paid loot boxes starting on 26 March 2019.

Blizzard cutting back on Heroes of the Storm, esports cancelled

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It seems that Blizzard won't be particularly jolly these holidays as the company announced cutting back spending on their Warcraft-flavoured MOBA Heroes of the Storm, even going as far as cancelling the Heroes Global Championship.

Kel’Thuzad is doing his time on Heroes of the Storm's PTR

Kel’Thuzad has joined the Heroes of the Storm on PTR. A new special event named Obey the Call will run until 25 September 2017. Ranked Season 2 will officially come to a close on 04 September 2017 closely followed by a fresh season.

Heroes of the Storm PTR update detailed changes and new additions

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Blizzard's hero brawler gets a new character and some much needed balance changes. For now this is only on the Public Test Realm but it will be hitting live servers soon enough. Players have reported a dwindling playerbase due to imbalance.

Heroes of the Storm PAX 2018 reveals new hero coming

The team behind Heroes of The Storm reveals the new hero in the game which will be coming soon on PTR servers followed by live servers by the end of the month. They will be talking about universe interactions between other Blizzard titles.

Discord causing massive FPS drops in some games, no official word as of yet

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Several reports have come up blaming voice and text chat service Discord for some huge FPS drops in games, although at the moment, it doesn't seem to be affecting all the games, but rather just a select few.

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.
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