Check back here tomorrow at 10:30AM EST for live coverage of the PAX East Hearthstone announcements! Blizzard is doing a full hour of previewing potential new content from many of their games, one being Hearthstone!
Bold new heroes, exciting new cards, and epic new battlegrounds. . . . Join a trio of Blizzard Entertainment developers for a look at just some of what’s in store for 2015, including upcoming content for Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and Overwatch.
Panelists
Dustin Browder [Game Director, Heroes of the Storm], Eric Dodds [Game Director, Hearthstone], Jeff Kaplan [Game Director, Overwatch]
I’ll be doing a live blog right here for anyone who can’t watch the stream!
CLICK HERE FOR THE NEW CARDS, GAME BOARD, AND CARD BACKS FROM BLACKROCK MOUNTAIN!
Live Updates
I will be furiously typing updates as they come in from the stream below. If you want to watch it as it happens the stream is here.
- BLACKROCK MOUNTAIN RELEASES NEXT MONTH: April 2015!
- March 19th or 20th Blackrock Mountain will be available for Pre-order and you receive a Card Back for doing so!
- New card backs: Ragnaros, Heroic Card back for defeating all the heroic bosses in Blackrock Moutain,
- 31 total cards!
- Neutral Legendary: Rend Blackhand – 7 mana, 8/4, Battlecry: If you’re holding a Dragon, Destroy a Legendary minion.
- Neutral Card: Hungry Dragon – 4 mana, 5/6, Battlecry: Summon a random 1-Cost minion for your opponent.
- Neutral Card: Blackwing Technician – 3 mana, 2/4, Battlecry: If you’re holding a Dragon, gain +1/+1
- Heart of this adventure is DRAGONS!
- Neutral Card: Grim Patron – 5 mana, 3/3 – Whenever this minion survives damage, summon another Grim Patron.
- Rogue Card: Dark Iron Skulker – 5 mana, 4/3, Battlecry: Deal 2 damage to all undamaged enemy minions.
- New cards incoming
- New board, Molten Core! It looks awesome! Upgrade weapons, mess with lava, etc on the new board.
- Grim Guzzler will have cards from both decks jumping into the fight!
- Wing 1 – Blackrock Depths Bosses: Grim Guzzler, The Arena, Dark Iron Emperor
- Second Wing: Molten Core
- Five wings, Seventeen Bosses, First wing: Blackrock Depths
- You start by helping Nefarion talk to Ragnaros.
- They both really want to take over the World.
- Nefarion the great Dragon is in the way of Ragnaros from taking over the world.
- Ragnaros is running the show!
- What’s different: different vibe, Blackrock Mountain is about two epic forces that inhabit it.
- It’ll be like Naxx, new wing every week, new bosses every week, new heroic bosses, etc.
- Blackrock Mountain, A Hearthstone Adventure: blackrockmountain.com
- New Adventure Mode incoming!
- Talking about Curse of Naxxramas and how it went.
- Release for phones: next couple of months. iOS and Android!
- Looks good, the UI is pretty tight, I’ll have images after the presentation!
- It is currently in Alpha on Phones
- Phone update incoming.
- Going through some of the history of the past year since launch: Hearthstone World Championships, Goblins vs. Gnomes, etc.
- Fireside Gatherings are fun!
- He’s going to rush he only has 8 minutes!
- Eric Dodds is up on stage!
- Props to the web team who had Overwatch’s website updated immediately after they were done.
- Whew, looks like every tech supports favorite trick work: “Have you tried restarting Windows?”
- Technical difficulties for Heroes of the Storm, lets hope this doesn’t hurt the Hearthstone announcements!
- If you’re interested in Overwatch we covered it on our sister site: Heroes of Overwatch
- Heroes of the Storm is next, saving the best for last Blizzard?!?!
- Overwatch is starting first.
- Here we go, we have a live feed!
- An ominous start now that we’re 2 minutes late!
Seems like Hearthstone will be first up.- NAXX IS OUT?!
- Update 1: I’m very excited.
