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Rise of the Necromancer Pack Arrives June 27! Rise of the Necromancer Pack will be available on June 27 for just $14.99 USD!

Heroes Brawl: June 22 - Silver City

This week’s Heroes Brawl is Silver City! Battle against the enemy team on this single-lane Battleground featuring a familiar design straight out of the High Heavens, Mercenary Camps ready to be swayed to your team’s favor, and tons of action. Queue up, choose your hero, and try your best to send the enemy team to the Burning Hells! Yesterday at 20:59 by Stan

June 22nd PTR - Loot Box and Highlights Changes

The live update/PTR deployment rhythm continues as the latest PTR patch comes 2 days after the latest live version. This time around we're getting new highlight options, loot box updates with less duplicates and more credits, customizable reticles and a lot of bug fixes. There's also the obligatory Jeff Kaplan dev update! Yesterday at 19:22 by Starym

Patch 7.2.5 Hotfixes: June 22nd

Another relatively short batch today, we have the long awaited change to Writhing Essences, that are now a currency instead of a quest item, so the excess won't be disappearing after you upgrade a legendary anymore! There's also some ToS Sisters of the moon melee tweaks, some PvP fixes and more. Yesterday at 18:33 by Starym

Duplicate Legendaries Will No Longer Drop From Card Packs

Some exciting card pack changes are coming with the next Hearthstone expansion. Yesterday at 18:11 by Zadina 15 comments

First Look: The Shrouded Moors & Beyond

The "First Look" series continues with a preview of new zones added in Patch 2.6.0 - Shrouded Moors, Temple of the Firstborn and Realms of Fate. Yesterday at 17:25 by Stan 1 comment

Kiljaeden Defeat Cinematic & Argus

We've uploaded Kil'jaeden's Defeat Cinematic to Youtube and in this article, we're looking at what happens after you defeat the last boss in the Tomb of Sargeras. Yesterday at 16:54 by Stan 1 comment

Sun Darter Hatchling Pet Video Guide

We've put up a video guide for the Sun Darter Hatchling pet with commentary on how to solve the riddle within Caverns of Consumption. Grab the pet if you haven't already! Yesterday at 00:21 by Stan 2 comments

Blue Posts Roundup: June 21

In today's blue posts roundup, we uncover some mysteries behind Writhing Essence, used to upgrade your Legendary items to 970 in Patch 7.2.5. Jun 21, 2017 at 20:24 by Stan 3 comments

Midsummer 2017 Changes

Midsummer Fire Festival is here and there are several updates this year. Jun 21, 2017 at 19:44 by Stan

The Midsummer Fire Festival is Live!

The Midsummer festival is here! Two weeks of fire, both works and otherwise, ending on July 5th, and Blizzard have a small preview for the event this year with new toys, pets, achievements and more. Jun 21, 2017 at 17:38 by Starym

Patch 7.2.5 - Hotfixes: June 20

A very brief round of hotfixes went live with adjustments to Death Knights, Monks and PvP nerfs for Death Knights and Warlocks. Jun 21, 2017 at 08:58 by Stan

Upcoming Reddit Developer AMA: June 23

World of Warcraft devs will be answering Class design questions this Friday, June 23 over at /r/wow/. Jun 21, 2017 at 00:08 by Stan

HGC Phase 2 Patch Notes

The Heroes of the Storm Global Competition will go through some changes for its second phase. Jun 20, 2017 at 22:09 by Zadina

Twitch Prime Rewards for Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch

Members of Twitch Prime can now get rewards in Overwatch, while they will be able to get more rewards in the future in Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm. Jun 20, 2017 at 21:08 by Zadina

Phase 2 of Hearthstone Global Games Has Started

The second phase of Hearthstone Global Games begins with a new round robin group stage. Jun 20, 2017 at 20:06 by Zadina

Patch Notes for June 20th: Horizon Map Release

The Horizon Lunar Colony assault map is here and so is a new patch! Custom games and the Game browser get the gravity options that are enabled on a part of the new map, McCree gets some ult tuning, Reaper loses his health orbs but gains lifesteal and Roadhog gets gun tuning and a smaller head! There's also a lot of user interface changes and additions as well as the usual large amount of bugs squashed! Jun 20, 2017 at 19:06 by Starym

M+ Scaling to +15 Coming Next Week with M ToS

So, a bit of a surprise today, as Blizzard had tweeted that the Mythic+ changes they announced a while ago will be going live this week with the Tomb of Sargeras raid opening. They quickly removed said tweets, however, as someone on the team remembered that they had already said the changes were coming with MYTHIC ToS. So, next week it is for end of dungeon rewards, but you can already set up your weekly cache for the changes this week and get the +15 rewards there. Here are a couple of tweets explaining the timing and how the weekly chest will work with the change (a number of which have been deleted). Jun 20, 2017 at 18:22 by Starym

This Week in WoW: June 20

Quite a busy week in Azeroth is ahead of us. Tomb of Sargeras is now open, the new item level for Legendaries is 970, changes to Mythic Keystone Runs are coming and more. Jun 20, 2017 at 17:55 by Stan 1 comment

Rise of the Necromancer Pack Arrives June 27!

Rise of the Necromancer Pack is just one week away and will go live on June 27! Jun 20, 2017 at 14:16 by Stan 30 comments

Tomb of Sargeras Raid Guide

Tomb of Sargeras opens today and in our Survival Guide, we cover the raid unlock schedule, loot tables and in-depth raid strategy guides. Jun 20, 2017 at 13:27 by Stan

Patch 7.2.5 Hotfixes: June 19th

Today's hotfixes bring the previously announced class tuning, with a few more minor additions (which we marked in white), as well as more Chromie tweaks, a couple of PvP class changes and more. Jun 20, 2017 at 00:37 by Starym

Team Fnatic Wins Mid-Season Brawl

Fnatic won 4:3 against Team Dignitas in the Mid-Season Grand Finals (Best of 7). They're the official Mid-Season Brawl World Champions for Heroes of the Storm and winners of $100,000 USD. Jun 20, 2017 at 00:04 by Stan 2 comments

Necromancer Beta Ends

Necromancer Beta has now ended according to an announcement by CM Nevalistis on the official forums. More information about the Necromancer DLC should be posted soon. Haedrig's Gift for Season 11 has Necromancer Sets listed, so maybe it will go live when Season 11 starts on Thursday, July 20. Jun 19, 2017 at 21:27 by Stan 3 comments

Ben Brode on Promo Cards

A thread called 'Why was Old Murk-Eye removed as a collection reward?' rose to the front page of r/hearthstone yesterday and Ben Brode dropped by to share some insight on promo cards that have rotated out of Standard. Jun 19, 2017 at 20:21 by Zadina 5 comments

Core Concepts: Team Leveling Part II

The second part of Core Concepts dives into soaking / gaining XP and power spikes. Jun 19, 2017 at 19:09 by Stan

Malthael Patch Meta Tier List (June 2017)

We present our seventh Heroes of the Storm Meta Tier List for the Malthael patch of June 2017. Jun 19, 2017 at 16:21 by Oxygen 16 comments

Free-to-Play Hero Rotation: June 20

The Free Hero Rotation has been updated for the week of June 20 with D.Va available for gameplay. Jun 19, 2017 at 15:36 by Stan

Mid-Season Brawls Final Showdown

Mid-Season Brawl's grand finale is here today and Team Dignitas, L5 & Fnatic will be competing for places 1 - 3. Jun 19, 2017 at 00:06 by Stan 5 comments

Gold Making: Winterfall Firewater

You can earn some crazy gold right now, by farming a single mob in Winterspring. Jun 18, 2017 at 21:21 by Stan 11 comments

Tomb of Sargeras Loot Guide

In our latest Tomb loot guide, we're looking at item level loot, which bosses drop Tier 20 tokens and some interesting on-use trinkets. Jun 18, 2017 at 20:12 by Stan 3 comments

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