We’re still a month and a half away from the 2016 season of Hearthstone, but details – though yet to be confirmed – are surfacing. HWC 2016 might be heading towards a major restructuring compared to its predecessors. The 2014 and 2015 seasons had a very linear progression, with year-long gathering of points through ladder and selected tournaments, all culminating with the $250,000 grand final event at Blizzcon. The World Championship itself remained Blizzard’s only direct…
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PokerStars Pro Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier signs up for Hearthstone’s SeatStory Cup 4 .
The popular event will happen for the fourth time in Krefeld, Germany, this coming weekend: November 12th to 15th. Alongside the Viagame Housecup, SeatStory Cup is one of the two big Hearthstone events which regularly happen in a very laid-back environment, compared to for example the DreamHack circuit, and thus are very well received among the community. The first three iterations all featured very noticeable players as eventual champions: Cong “StrifeCro” Shu, considered one of…
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Exclusive Hearthstone Developer Interview with Yong Woo
Exclusive Hearthstone Dev Interview with Yong Woo – Deck Slots, Class Portraits, Player Catch-Up, Tournament System
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Ostkaka is the new Hearthstone World Champion!
In a one-sided finals, the Swedish Na’Vi player defeated his opponent Hotform with a clean 3-0 victory. The world has its new Hearthstone World Champion, and his name is Sebastian “Ostkaka” Engwall. Afterdefeating Thijs “ThijsNL” Molendijk in one of the tightest series ever witnessed in competitive Hearthstone, Ostkaka steamrolled over Dylan “Hotform” Mullis in the finals. His seemingly peculiar choice of a Freeze Mage, Oil Rogue and Patron Warrior line-up came out of the group…
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Xixo takes fifth invitational in a row as he triumphs at HS Arena
Natus Vincere’s Sebastian “Xixo” Bentert is five for five when it comes to recent invitational tournaments.
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Hearthstone Patch 9166 – Tavern Brawls, New Heroes – Animated, New Card Backs
A patch has been discovered on Blizzard’s servers. It is not yet available for download via the Battle.net client. This patch contains the new Tavern Brawl gamemode, three new cosmetic heroes, and a set of Brawl-specific cards.
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Heroes of the Storm World Championships gets $1.2M prize pool
The game won’t even be out of closed beta until early next week, but Blizzard is already ponying up big money for the inaugural Heroes of the Storm World Championships.
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Drew “TidesofTime” Biessener is back on the winning track at Kinguin for Charity Easter invitational.
After a rather long hiatus from Hearthstone, Drew “TidesofTime” Biessener is back on the winning track at Kinguin for Charity Easter invitational.
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Lim Yo Hwan (AKA “BoxeR”) Making the Transition from StarCraft to Poker
You might not be familiar with the name Lim Yo Hwan, but you may recognize him by the pseudonym “SlayerS_’BoxerR’”, or just “BoxeR” as he is more commonly known. That’s because he is widely considered one of the most successful StarCraft players in history..
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Orange’s elimination is the first big upset at Gfinity Spring II
The first day of Gfinity Spring Masters II saw one of tournament’s favorites get ousted..
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