New Adventure Blackrock Mountain for Hearthstone is announced!

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Hearthstone guys came up with a new adventure and it is soon to be released. The new adventure for Hearthstone has been announced at PAX East. This time the adventure brings dragons, dwarves and elementals to Hearthstone.

Blackrock Mountain will have five wings. these wings will be available over the course of 5 weeks. The first wing to be released is Blackrock Depths. Each wing has bosses that have unique set of cards which can be earned by defeating them. Defeating all of the bosses in those five wings will unlock the heroic mode of the adventure. If you can defeat all the bosses in the heroic mode, a new card back will be rewarded.

 
Blackrock Mountain adventure brings back the class challenges. There will be a total of nine new class challenges which will reward class specific cards when you finally defeat them. There are a total of new 31 cards added to Hearthstone with the Blackrock Mountain adventure. When the wings become available, the new cards associated with them will be available to select in arena mode even if you have not collect them yet. Also, there is a new game board reflecting the environment of Blackrock Mountain is added to the game. It will be added to the arena and play mode rotations.

Each wing can be purchases with in-game gold or real money. The prices is the same with the previous adventure Naxxramas. It is either 700 gold or $6.99. You can also buy the whole adventure with Blackrock Bundle which will be advantageous then buying the wings separately due to discounts. It's $24.99 for all five wings. The pre-ordering for the Blackrock Mountain adventure will be available on March 19th. Pre-ordering the adventure rewards a new cardback but it is only available to pre-purchases with real money. 

Blackrock Adventure will be released on all platforms (PC, MAC, iPad, Android) simultaneously in April.

Hearthstone: Goblins vs Gnomes Release Date Announced

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At Blizzcon, new expansion for Hearthstone was announced to be released in December. Since Decemeber is here, Blizzard shared the release dates for the Goblins vs Gnomes expansion for various regions with a blog post.

So the new expansion will hit on

• December 8 : Americas including Southeast Asia and Ocenia
• December 9: Europe, Korea, Taiwan and China

Platforms:

• Windows
• Mac
• iPad

World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor Launch Times

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A blue post, Rygarius, shared the launch times of Warlord of Draenor expansion pack on different regions. It seems I won't be able to play it right away. Hope you'll have fun leveling.

Blizzcon Hearthstone: Goblin vs Gnomes Expansion is Announced

 The first Hearthstone expansion called Goblin vs Gnomes will be available this December.

• There will be more than 120 new cards.
• A new minion type called Mechs will be introduced.
• Spectator mode will be added to the game so that your friends can watch your battles.
• New card packs will be available to be bought both by cash and in game gold.

Here is a sample of the cards from the expansion.

Blizzcon: New Blizzard Game Overwatch Announced

A new PvP shooter franchise called Overwatch has been announced by Chris Metzen at Blizzcon opening ceremony. It's beta will start in 2015.

The game takes place in Earth in the future. Robots went mad, heroes gathered and defended world against the robots. This group of heroes called Overwatch. You will be able to play as the heroes of the Overwatch. At the moment twelve heroes has been announced and all of them new characters unlike Heroes of the Storm. The teams will consist of 6 players. There will be objectives like escorting payload or point captures that the teams need to complete to win.

You can sign up for a chance to attend the beta at the game's webpage: http://eu.battle.net/overwatch/en/


Not my genre of games but whatever.

Heroes of the Storm: Technical Alpha Access and Technical Alpha Key Giveaway

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I got a technical alpha invite to Heroes of the Storm last night. It seems Blizzard gave alpha access to additional players according to their post on Facebook and will distribute couple more with a giveaway. There is not any other way to get access to HotS. You either get to be selected by Blizzard to participate or win key from the giveaway at the moment so be careful with the phising e-mails.

Post by Blizzard.

World of Warcraft: Blackhand - New World of Warcraft Comic

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Second issue of World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor comic is released. This time it's about Blackhand. Enjoy!

"Blackhand" by @RoBrooks13 is now available. Download the full comic for free: http://t.co/PWsKlZBjDg #Warlords pic.twitter.com/5zWldG52uM
— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) October 10, 2014

World of Warcraft: Lords of War Part 5 Maraad

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Blizzard released last part of Lords of War and this time we learn the rather sad story of Vindicator Maraad. I feel bad for him now due to what he lived thorugh.

He insists Varian to seal the war order against the Iron Horde. Varian asks why he is so bloodthirsty like the enemy he told about. Then, he started telling what happened to Varian in the invasion of Shattrath by crazed fel orcs. We see resident Draenei's slaughtered by the orcs, Shattrath destroyed and Maraad was ordered to take the last group of refugees to the safety. However, when he saw orcs on the way to safety, he left the unarmed refugees to take care themselves and attacked the orcs. After killing the orcs, he went to the path he told was safe to the refugees to join them but instead he found the bodies of them scattered around. He regrets what he did at that time, carries the burden of forsaking them. Finally, he tells that Varian must seal the order to prevent all those things he told happened in Shattrath back then. Varian seals the order and the video ends with Varian calling the heroes of Azeroth to arms against Iron Horde.

"Azeroth needs its heroes now... more than ever!" - Varian Wrynn

I'm pumped, don't you?

World of Warcraft: Lords of War Part 4 Kilrogg

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Lords of War Part 4 has been released. On this episode, Maraad tells the story of Kilrogg Deadeye, the chieftain of Bleeding Hollow clan. This one is the longest among the released videos and I believe it covers so much more than the previous ones. We see that the whole clan was terrified by the Arakkoa threat (this is pathetic) and ordered to not to leave their refuge by old chieftain. Kilrogg is challenged by his father to see his own death. He performs the sacred ritual which is a custom for the ones that will one day become chieftain of Bleeding Hollow clan. He must sacrifice one of his eyes to see his death. However, it seems ritual sometimes shows much more than just the death of the person and Kilrogg see his future. Finally, he gets back to his father's side and kills him and says that he was not the part of the future he saw. Dunno why there are so much gory in orc stories. Is it really cool, appealing? Do you get pumped?

And releasing Deadeye's story on Pirates Day? Nice move Blizzard, nice move indeed. :)

World of Warcraft News:Name Reclaimation, Face Customization, Availability of Legendary Cloak Quest Line and New WoD Legendary

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Blizzard will release the character names that players haven't logged in since November 13, 2008 to other players. If you want to keep your character names, you have to log in to the game with the character(s) which would be otherwise affected from this change before Patch 6.0.2. I don't think there will be many people who'd like to keep the names if they neglect that character for a whopping 6 years. They probably either quit the game or created a character in another realm and forgot its existence. New players and people who desire to change their character names will have more options after this name wipe according to Blizzard.

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It's finally here! We can now- I mean when WoD released- make facial customization in game with gold. To do this, we need to visit barber shop in Capital cities. No more irl money will be spent just to change your character's facial features. \o/

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If you have not already obtained your legendary cloak, you should work hard to get it since it will not be available forever. If you've already started to the associated quest line, you must complete it until November 13 since the quest line and the any progress you have will be removed from the game on that day. If you are not already progressing through the quest line when patch 6.0.2 hits live realms, you won't even be able to start it. However, to make it easy to complete the quest line, Blizzard decided to leave Gaze of the Black Prince buff up until WoD release. Good luck on your journey!

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It seems Blizzard will make another legendary available to everyone through another quest line in WoD. There is not much detail about it but its name, Khadgar's Band of Archmage, makes me believe that this time we will get a legendary ring.