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...

Blizzard's digital CCG Hearthstone got a major update today, adding 136 new cards with its new Witchwood expansion, and removing 314 from standard play. The shift comes as the game transitions from the "Year of the Mammoth" to the "Yea...

Recently Hearthstone announced its next big wave of content, and they're following up on the start of that wave rather quickly. Witchwood, the horror themed expansion that centers around Worgen, among other denizens of the Warcraft wor...

It doesn't seem like StarCraft is pushing two decades, but these anniversaries have a way of creeping up on us. If you were at all into the beloved sci-fi strategy game back in 1998, I'm sure you have vivid memories of sneaking in late-nigh...

Hearthstone is once again changing "years," which means that old cards are going away and becoming "wild" (Whispers of the Old Gods, One Night in Karazhan, Mean Streets of Gadgetzan) and new cards are becoming "standard" (tournament re...

Hearthstone has gone through a lot of changes in the past (nearly) four years it's been out. I'm not just talking about balance and card alterations, but multiple fundamental shakeups, including the introduction of the popular season collec...

Blizzard's Hearthstone has gone through some major changes in the last year. The biggest shakeup saw the game disallowing many of its older cards in the standard gameplay modes, moving them to a separate format called "Wild." The regul...

My wife and I love cooking. Baking...it's a slow work in progress (and many pro bakers would tell you it's a lifelong process), but we dabble, and are getting better every year. It helps if you're spurred into action by video game themed ma...

Blizzard goes hard on eSports at BlizzCon. Every game has its own eSports stage (Overwatch even took over the StarCraft arena from last year), analysts, and commentary. Here's a recap of what went down.