Win One of Three Virtual Tickets to BlizzCon 2018!
We’ve got three virtual tickets to give away, and entering the contest is easier than facing me in a game of Hearthstone. Why does my deck consist of nothing but Acidmaw cards, this makes no sense…
The Boomsday Project is Hearthstone’s next expansion, out in August
Hearthstone’s current landscape will son be altered once again with the next evolution of the metagame, as a brand new expansion is due for release next month. August 7 will introduce The Boomsday Project, unleashing 135 new cards into Hearthstone and going all in on the mad science.
A Dreamhack Come True: How I made it to the Hearthstone Top 16
By Dylan ‘Dib’ Brown Dreamhack is an event that started as a LAN back in Sweden and has grown to one of the most significant regular esports events across the world, and across different games. They have been running Hearthstone Grandprixs since 2015 as some of the biggest events on the Hearthstone calendar. For 2018 they also count as Hearthstone …
South African player Dylan “Dib” Brown gets a top 16 finish at DreamHack Hearthstone tournament
While some of you were looking elsewhere this weekend, a couple of local Hearthstone players just happened to be in France. The DreamHack HCT Grand Prix hit France this past weekend and saw a total of 232 participants. Between the various international competitors sat South African players Dylan “Dib” Brown and Francois “Fafa” Mouton. The two did the country proud …
Here’s a look at the first six cards of Hearthstone’s Witchwood expansion
Hearthstone returns with a new expansion in this, the year of the Raven. Called The Witchwood, Blizzard says that you can expect 135 new cards and a new single-player adventure when you believe in the hearth of the cards this April.
Kobolds & Catacombs reignited my love for Hearthstone
My relationship with Hearthstone took a steep dive of Cristiano Ronaldo proportions last year. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but following the stellar showing in 2016, where Whispers of the Old Gods (still my favourite piece of content, I think), One Night in Karazhan, and Mean Streets of Gadgetzan launched, everything that followed in Blizzard’s once addictive card game just didn’t seem to hold my attention, not for the long run anyway. That changed when the latest expansion appeared. Blizzard released Kobolds & Catacombs near the end of 2017 - just in time for the festive season
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