It's a Free-to-play Trading Card game, similar to online Magic the Gathering. Today at Blizzard's PAX East panel, the company announced Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. The collectible card strategy game is Blizzard's first stab at the free-to-play model, allowing players to compete as heroes from nine WoW classes, all set in the Warcraft universe.

In a series of video demonstrations, Blizzard showed off opening a "pack" of cards, trashing duplicate cards to make a more powerful one, and the deck-building tools. The game will either suggest cards that you might want to put in your deck, or just auto-create a deck by type. Playing one-on-one online battles will boost your medal ranking, which is managed through Battle.net. The game is aiming for a spectator element as well, as Blizzard showed off a game match with shoutcasting commentary.



Links:
http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/
https://www.facebook.com/HearthstoneSEA

This post has been edited by Renekton: Oct 30 2013, 09:56 AM

what a joke

I think it's quite a refreshing idea to tap into the dying Warcraft franchise. It's still too early to tell whether this game will make or break so let's give them some time to polish the game up & see what they're capable of.

rmah included? HAHAHAHA

This is meh as hell, especially after how well HOTS turned out. Then, Blizzard disappoints again.

never underestimate blizzard

lol card games battle

How about no?

Has anyone tried Scrolls or MtG online?

how does it compare to the existing physical warcraft card game?

Oh shiet, there goes Starcraft II protoss campaign. Another 4 years delay because need to develop this new game first

Dying? I'm quite sure among their 3 huge intellectual properties, Warcraft still have the largest number of players.

They've got different teams for different games yo.

signed up for beta

Diablo 3 was quite a flop & surprisingly, HotS seems to generate quite a lot of positive feedback. WarCraft on the other hand is hanging on a thread since the only thing that's keeping it from dying at this point in time is the MMORPG itself, which I'm afraid is no longer the MMORPG-of-all-MMORPGs as it was in the past.

Diablo 3 flop? They sold 12M units last i heard.. They basically screwed up PC players.. Now they are clearly heading the "console" crowd .. I'd be LOL if console didn't do well as the PC and Bliz end up pissed off its own core players while trying to appeal to a different crowd.

Edit
PS3 version don't have RMAH or DRM.
http://www.destructoid.com/diablo-iii-on-c...rm-249402.phtml

PC players who supported them should be butt hurt

This post has been edited by Archaven: Mar 23 2013, 09:54 PM

Flop as in the initial reviews were not exactly encouraging & the subsequent player feedback were pretty much inflammatory as well. If we were to compare the game to Diablo 2, I think most would agree that Diablo 3 went off the radar pretty fast.

Looking at the last few major releases by Blizzard, they were all packaged along with high expectations since they were all sequels to very successful franchises. Perhaps Blizzard is taking a gamble this time around by coming up with a game that lacks the initial oomph & thus, giving them the chance to pack a surprise once the game is officially out?

All I'm saying is that we're better off giving them the time they need to polish up the game before deciding its fate.

P.S. Not a Blizzard fanboy here.

I'll stick with Shadow Era and MtG.

it's dumbed down version for kids.

HotS is surprisingly very very good expansion. It is not exactly the raw amount of content added like how good Forged Alliance or DoW: Dark Crusade was, but it is all the fine tuning and little additions in HotS made it a really good expansion.

Not to forget that this expansion rejuvenated the whole professional scene and made the game whole lot more interesting. If this expansion pack manage to revive the dead custom map scene, this is definitely one of the best RTS expansion I ever had then.

Diablo 3, it did well because Diablo 2 was a fantastic game, so, people bought it based on the merits of the old game. No doubt that the gameplay is much better, compared to to other ARPGs, but it was ruined by the RMAH and the whole Always Online crap. If they remove RMAH and Always Online in the upcoming Diablo 3 expansion, i'll queue up to buy the expansion as the core game itself is excellent.

If i want an APRG that is closer to what D2 was, I'll play PoE or Torchlight 2, but if I want a modernised ARPG, Diablo 3 will be a great choice if they dump the shitty RMAH and Always Online.

No harm signing up for beta. Give it a try (if you got invited) and see how the game goes