On Tuesday evening, Jon 'Orange' Westberg, a long-time competitive player and content creator within the Hearthstone community announced on Twitter that he had received a one-year suspension from the game's competitive scene due to "a mistake in my past, one which I take full accountability for," according to his post.
Ten days after the Hearthstone development team launched their take on the roguelike dungeon crawler genre, Mercenaries, controversy has reared its ugly head.
Over the last month, members of the Hearthstone community would sit on Twitter and refresh Lead Designer Alec Dawson's profile in hopes that he would announce upcoming balance patches.
The embattled Blizzard Entertainment has lost a senior member of its legal team
Activision Blizzard came under fire from west coast collegiate players, coaches, and team admins on Wednesday, after they released a schedule that placed numerous matches in the middle of the Friday s
After nearly six months of waiting, fans of Blizzard Entertainment's collecticle card game, Hearthstone, will be able to feast their eyes on an upcoming game mode called Mercenaries in an event being held next week.
The heat got turned up on Activision Blizzard again Tuesday morning as SOC, an investment group working to improve conditions at the video game publisher riddled with controversy in recent weeks, issued a statement saying the bar for improvement isn't being set high enough.
The job fair took place in Las Vegas as part of a cybersecurity conference called Black Hat 2015.
Ever since Blizzard Entertainment released its' take on the FPS genre back in 2016 with the launch of Overwatch, there have always been limitations to who you could play with.
The last month has been uncomfortable within the Hearthstone scene and it's about time. For many, the mundane, safe, non-political way of doing things was perfectly fine. But for others, they had grown tired of the abuse, neglect, and having their voices ignored. So a revolution took place.
Hearthstone's largest female content creator has had enough and is offering to put her money where her mouth is.
Over the weekend, numerous current and former players began speaking out about the sexism, harassment, and roadblocks they have encountered in their years within the Hearthstone community.
Blizzard Senior Artist Dan John Cox tweeted about the unannounced game and its job listings, including Associate-level design positions.
For the first time in Hearthstone's nearly seven-year history, a community created card back will be entering the game as part of a recent competition.
Ever since Diablo was released back in 1996 through Blizzard Entertainment's original Battle.net launcher, millions of players have gone through the portal to play some of their favorite games. On Thursday afternoon, Activision Blizzard announced that Battle.net was receiving some front-end upgrades that, they hope, will bring the launcher into the present and act as a more aesthetically pleasing and functional hub for gamers going forward.
Nearly six years after Edwin VanCleef entered the Hearthstone universe, he is receiving his first balance change. On Thursday afternoon, the Hearthstone development team released a blog post sharing three "small" balance changes that are set to go live on Friday, January 8.
A new Hearthstone World Champion was crowned on Sunday afternoon as Kenta "Glory" Sato took down Jaromír Vyskočil three games to one in a grand final unlike any in the competitive scene's history. In an event held entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sato pumped his fists close to his chest before folding his face in his hands in front of him as Vyskočil conceded for the final time.
On Tuesday morning, Activision Blizzard announced that the eighth expansion in the iconic MMORPG's franchise, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, became the fastest-selling PC game of all time.
After weeks and weeks of frustration within the Hearthstone community, Blizzard Entertainment on Monday afternoon revealed how they plan on tweaking the updated rewards track that players can use to unlock in-game cosmetics and content.
When Madness at the Darkmoon Faire launched on Tuesday, things were a little different. While many were talking about cool cards and decks they were experimenting with, more were focused on an announcement Blizzard had made earlier in the day.
