Stop me if you've done this before: you're playing your favorite card (or otherwise rank-based game), hit up your standard few matches for rewards, keep your ranking stable, then log off. It's a problem for both the publisher and the player...

Late last night Blizzard kicked off their final main panel of BlizzCon's Friday festivities: Hearthstone. Although new cards and the reasoning behind the new dragon-centric set were the toast of the town, Blizzard also took the time to let ...

The third and final chapter in Hearthstone's Year of the Dragon heats up and breathes fire in just one month. The Hearthstone: Descent of the Dragon expansion takes flight on December 10.  The progenitor of all dragons is the new...

Blizzard has had a week. After levying a year-long ban and withholding tournament winnings from professional Hearthstone player Blitzchung for his pro-Hong Kong statements during a Blizzard-hosted stream, an overwhelming flood of disap...

Hearthstone roared onto the scene in 2014, and with the backing of Blizzard's billions, tore up the esports scene and never looked back. It's a giant in the collectible card game (CCG) space, and there's a ton of highs and lows to go w...

Blizzard has imposed harsh sanctions against a professional Hearthstone player after he expressed support for Hong Kong protesters in their ongoing fight for liberation from the Chinese government. During a live interview over the weekend,&...

Blizzard's Hearthstone has been the face of digital card games for several years now, reliably one of the highest earning mobile titles since it launched in 2014. The simple rules make it easier to follow than competitors such as Magic...

Dreezy is back this week on the Destructoid Twitch channel with some World of Warcraft Classic and more Borderlands 3 gameplay with of course all the blame aimed at Torch. As a heads up, we're looking for more community requested games for...

Competition has been good for Hearthstone. Even though Artifact never really found an audience, other digital Collectible Card Games (CCGs) like Eternal and Magic The Gathering: Arena have provided some legitimate alternative...

Hearthstone recently released its latest expansion, Rise of Shadows. As the first expansion released this year, all cards that were released in 2017, in addition to a few other unhealthy cards, were removed from the game's Standard format. ...

The time has come for another Hearthstone expansion and the usual four month cadence lives on. This one is a 135-card joint called "Rise of the Shadows," which focuses on the ethereal and evil Rafaam, as well as his "League of E.V.I.L. with...

When Hearthstone's new season starts in February, ranked play won't be quite the grind that it has been in the past. Well, at least not for the majority of players. Blizzard has revealed a restructuring of how long it takes to climb ranks i...

Hearthstone's latest Solo Adventure, Rumble Run, sees you take the role of Rikkar, a Troll champion preparing to do battle against a series of eight fierce AI gladiators.  To begin, you must first choose a team to represent. This is do...

Blizzard's collectible card game Hearthstone is one of the brightest spots on the company's ledger sheet, having recently surpassed 100 million registered players. The game is in a pretty good place, with Valve's Artifact stumbling out...

It feels like Hearthstone has been around much longer than four years. With myriad expansions under its belt, a ton of support and a thriving eSports scene, it's had a major impact on how studios approach the card game space, both in terms ...

With each new Hearthstone expansion comes a large number of fancy new cards to play with and endless possibilities for new decks. Between your wallet and your Arcane Dust, it's almost impossible to get every card you want from the latest ex...

Well as it turns out: burning a World Tree in cold blood does pay off. Although the player base was on fire going into the launch of World of Warcraft's Battle for Azeroth expansion, Activision saw the green in the end. Speaking on an ...

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that their deck-building card battler, Hearthstone, has registered a whopping 100 million players since its launch back in 2014. Yes, it was that long ago. Obviously this number refers to all accounts ac...

Live on stage at BlizzCon, the Hearthstone team announced Rastakhan's Rumble, the next expansion for the game that was already spoiled by leaks. It'll deal with the Trolls in the famous Stranglethorn Vale zone and will featur...

Let's talk about Artifact. The card-based battler was shown off to the public for the first time last weekend at PAX West, and I got to go hands-on with it during the show and speak with a couple of the game's developers. It's significant m...

Blizzard's Hearthstone is one of the company's more unusual creations. A digital representation of a physical card game, based on a venerable MMORPG, itself based on a real-time-strategy game (based on the Warhammer universe, but ...

Blizzard's Hearthstone released its most recent expansion yesterday, and the mad-science themed The Boomsday Project adds 135 cards to the venerable digital CCG. The set adds several new mechanics and offers some new deck archetyp...

Love it or hate it, Blizzard's Hearthstone has become the premier digital collectible card game around, and it's still going strong five years after the initial release. Part of keeping a CCG from becoming stale is a regular influ...

Okay so it's "New Pack Day," but the header gets the point across much more concisely if you aren't a regular Hearthstone player. Anyway, along with a cute little animated short, Blizzard is running a promotion today where if you log into H...

Hearthstone is one of the oldest digital collectible card games (CCGs) around at this point, and certainly one of the most popular. Blizzard's talent for sanding the corners off of dense, crunchy strategy games makes Hearthstone a...