Category: Heroes of the Storm News

Blizzard has announced that Azmodan will be receiving a new legendary skin called “Azmodunk” that celebrates basketball. The skin pack comes complete with special animations, a special mount, unique voice overs and abilities and more. Check out the video below to see ‘Azmodunk’ in action.

Fans of Overwatch who dabble in Heroes of the Storm (or vice versa) will be pleased to hear that Tracer will be heading into the game in April according to Blizzard Watch. HotS Tracer was part of the pre-order perks for those who preordered Overwatch but it seems that she will be coming to the game as a character that can either be purchased with real world money or in-game gold.

The Heroes of the Storm site has been updated with a pair of interesting notes about eSports tournaments. In the first, a recap of this past weekend’s North American Spring Regional Tournament has been posted with Cloud9 and Team Naventic taking slots in the forthcoming world championships.

This weekend the North American Regional Finals kick off. For watching the stream to see the action live, you can earn two new portraits for Heroes of the Storm. In addition, Blizzard has also shown off a video detailing their newest Specialist to join the Nexus, Diablo 2’s Necromancer named Xul.

This weekend the North American Regional Finals kick off. For watching the stream to see the action live, you can earn two new portraits for Heroes of the Storm. In addition, Blizzard has also shown off a video detailing their newest Specialist to join the Nexus, Diablo 2’s Necromancer named Xul.

The Heroes of the Storm site has been updated with a detailed look at the many changes made to the game’s match-making system since Blizzcon 2015 held in early November last year. According to the blog post, match-making updates have been deployed and the team is excited about the results collected so far, though the system is still a work in progress with more alterations coming.

The latest update has been deployed on Heroes of the Storm servers that bring a number of balance changes to several heroes. The group that has received the most attention is the Assassin line that includes Falstad, Jaina, Kael’thas, Nova and Thrall.

Blizzard has announced that Heroes of the Storm has been updated with the latest patch that sees the commencement of the Lunar Festival that includes a new daily event quest, a new character portrait, new Hero skins, the Diablo Wizard character Li-Ming and more.

Blizzard has unleashed the first information about the 2016 Heroes of the Dorm tournament that will see students competing to win a share of $500,000 in tuition awards and other prizes throughout the competitive season. Coverage of Heroes of the Dorm will take place on ESPN Network with live coverage on both cable channels and online.

Blizzard Entertainment has released a pair of videos to show off the latest character added to Heroes of the Storm as well as a new skin for Leoric.