A new adventure is coming to Blizzard’s collectible card-game hit Hearthstone.
Blackrock Mountain pits players against all new enemies and bosses, and introduces 31 new cards to the game.
A total of five new wings are being added in the expansion, and Blizzard is selling them for 700 gold or $6.99 a piece with bundle options available. Buying all five at once will cost $24.99.
The expansion also adds new class challenges and super-hard Heroic Mode once you’ve defeated each of the five new bosses.
I’m sure you can count on a review from Paul Tassi. After all, he’s already spent over $600 on the game. What’s another $24.99?
Blizzard continues to make a killing on Hearthstone. The little card game had hit 20 million players by last September, and pulled own over $480 million by August.
The game also comes with a new game board for Adventure Mode, pictured above.
The Curse of Naxxramas expansion focused heavily on poison. Goblins and Gnomes leaned toward gnomish technology. Now we have a fire expansion. It’s vaguely reminiscent of the elements found in Activision’s Skylandersfranchise.
The latest Skylanders game, Trap Team, includes a collectible card game of its own—Skystones Smash—which is for all intents and purposes a beginners version of Hearthstone.
Blackrock Mountain goes up for pre-order on March 19th and launches sometime in April.
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'Hearthstone' Will Be Even Better On Smartphones
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft has finally arrived on Android tablets.
Blizzard’s “deceptively simple, insanely fun” “strategy card game for everyone” is now available for all those consumers who didn’t buy an iPad—or, as I like to put it, the majority of tablet owners.
Which means, basically, that I’ve been playing altogether too much of the game over the past few days. As fine as it is on PC, there’s something about swiping the cards around on a touchscreen that just works. (Except for when it doesn’t, I suppose. I’ve encountered just one game freeze so far and no other issues.)
In fact, I’ve been more into Hearthstone over the past few days than I’ve ever been before, even going as far as purchasing the single-player expansion Curse of Naxxramas, something I’ve just never gotten around to before now.