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HearthStone headlines

• Hearthstone’s next expansion Rastakhan’s Rumble out December 4

  Hearthstone: Rastakhan’s Rumble will be released next month and it comes with 135 new cards and new mechanics.

• Watch the BlizzCon 2018 opening ceremony here today

  The 12th BlizzCon show is underway this weekend, and it all kicks off today.

• BlizzCon 2018 schedule seems to hint at a Diablo announcement

  Blizzard posted the BlizzCon 2018 schedule overnight, and it appears some sort of Diablo announcement is planned.

• Activision has "a lot of work to do" before implementing cross play

  Activision Blizzard thinks Hearthstone has already proved the effectiveness of cross-play, but integrating other games will take some time.

• No esports in Olympics for fear of promoting violence

  With a sharp rise in popularity over the last few years, leading to both streamed and televised events, it wasn’t unreasonable to consider for a moment whether esports would finally be included in one of the world’s top competitive events: the Olympics.

• Hearthstone: Boomsday Project guide - best decks, tier list, more

  The Boomsday Project is Hearthstone’s thirteenth expansion if you include all of the Adventures released for the game, and it’s a card set that turns once more to the kind of Mech-fuelled mayhem that powered 2014’s Goblins vs Gnomes expansion.

• Players will "conduct crazed experiments" when Hearthstone: The Boomsday Project releases

  The Boomsday Project is the next expansion for Hearthstone and it comes with 135 new cards and “mischievous” game mechanics.

• Hearthstone director Ben Brode leaves Blizzard Entertainment

  After working at Blizzard for 15 years, Hearthstone’s Ben Brode is leaving to start a new company.

• Hearthstone: The Witchwood cards, decks, keywords, monster hunt, and more

  A new expansion will go live in Hearthstone this month, and the game’s eighth card set goes by the name of The Witchwood.

• Blizzard has no plans for Hearthstone on Nintendo Switch

  Blizzard has confirmed that it’s not working on a Nintendo Switch version of Hearthstone.

• Apple tells App Store devs to disclose loot box odds in new review guidelines

  Apple has updated its App Store review guidelines to include a subsection telling developers to disclose the odds of getting different types of in-game items from loot boxes in their games.

• New Hearthstone legendary card lets players take two turns in a row

  Well hello there, Temporus.

• Hearthstone players will go on Dungeon Runs when Kobolds and Catacombs releases in December

  Hearthstone players can collect 135 new cards when the next expansion, Kobolds & Catacombs, releases in December.

• BlizzCon 2017 kicks off today - watch the opening ceremony here

  BlizzCon 2017 starts today, and you can watch the opening ceremony right here along with us. Wow. Has it been a year already?

• Blizzard opens its own eSports arena in LA, and the first event on the docket is the Overwatch Contenders Playoffs

  Blizzard will soon open an eSports arena in Los Angeles.

• Twitch now lets you filter Overwatch streams by hero and Hearthstone by class or mode

  Soon, Twitch users will be able to filter Overwatch streams by hero and Hearthstone streams by Hero class and Game Mode. Soon as in today.

• Blizzard is ending support for Windows XP, and Vista in October across all of its games

  You won’t be able to play Blizzard games on Windows XP, and Vista starting this October.

• Hearthstone's next expansion is Knights of the Frozen Throne, out in August

  Knights of the Frozen Throne is the next expansion for Hearthstone. The new expansion takes the fight to Northrend this August.

• Hearthstone's Wild cards are going on sale again

  Including the single-player adventures!