Category: Hearthstone News

Hearthstone’s Halls of Origins launches today featuring new Tombs of Terror, rewards, and more.

The next expansion to Hearthstone has been named. Called “Saviors of Uldum,” the expansion is coming on August 6th. Saviors of Uldum will feature 135 new cards, new mechanics and game features. The new keyword is “Reborn” that sees minions come back to life the first time they’re destroyed, but with only one health. Plagues are also being added to all 5 League of EVIL classes. Quests are also a new feature that, once complete, reward players with a “game-changing new Hero power”.

Hearthstone’s single player crowd will be happy to hear that the first two zany chapters of Dalaran Heist have been released. The single player adventure is based on the Rise of Shadows expansion where players will “join ranks with the dastardly arch villain Rafaam — the only mustache-twirling criminal mastermind without a face — and his colorful cast of villains, the League of E.V.I.L.”

Hearthstone: The Dalaran Heist is the Rise of Shadows single-player campaign coming to the game on May 16th. It will be spread across five chapters and will see players will be tracking down villains as they fan “out across Dalaran to plunder the city’s riches and sow chaos in the streets” in preparation for the most audacious of crimes: Stealing the floating city itself.

Hearthstone has grown again, this time with the mystical floating city of Dalaran as the centerpiece of the Rise of Shadows expansion. Players will find 135 brand new cards that have all-new mechanics and keywords “expressly designed for doing no good”. Developers acknowledge that this is the “biggest story [they’ve] ever told”, one that offers players “a bunch of wicked new cards to get crafty with”.

Blizzard has announced that the next Hearthstone expansion is called Rise of the Shadows and that the 135-card set will be released on April 9th. Players will start a yearlong story for the first time in the game’s history. Players will join up with the League of E.V.I.L., a “mischievous league of miscreants”.

A couple of threads have cropped up on the Hearthstone Reddit about a recent survey sent out to players. The questions cover a wide variety of topics regarding the game in general and the recently released Rastakhan’s Rumble expansion in particular. A couple queries in particular piqued our interest: “How important are Blizzard sponsored Hearthstone tournaments to you?” and “If there were no Blizzard sponsored Hearthstone tournaments, how likely are you to play Hearthstone in the next 30 days?”

A couple of threads have cropped up on the Hearthstone Reddit about a recent survey sent out to players. The questions cover a wide variety of topics regarding the game in general and the recently released Rastakhan’s Rumble expansion in particular. A couple queries in particular piqued our interest: “How important are Blizzard sponsored Hearthstone tournaments to you?” and “If there were no Blizzard sponsored Hearthstone tournaments, how likely are you to play Hearthstone in the next 30 days?”

From now through December 31st, Hearthstone players can take part in the annual Winter Veil activities. This year, a pair of new Tavern Brawls have been added: Returns & Exchanges that yields the Winter Veil card back and Gift Exchange that offers up either the Winter Veil card back or a Classic card pack.

Now that the latest Hearthstone expansion has arrived and is safely ensconced in the game, players looking for a single-player challenge will be happy to hear that Rumble Run is now available. Players will face off against AI challengers that increase in difficulty the further a player progresses. Along the way, players gather new, stronger cards and powers to assist them. The goal is to defeat eight opponents to win.