Blizzard has confirmed that the price of cards packs for Hearthstone is to increase from March 22nd, and the UK in particular is in for a rough time. The prices, which apply to PC, Mac and Android, were announced on the Battle.net forums. The European price is going up by …
Read More »Hearthstone’s Ben Brode raps about Journey to Un’Goro
When Blizzard revealed the latest Hearthstone expansion fans were generally quite happy, and all seemed good in the world. Then someone noticed that the announcement trailer didn’t have a song in it and all hell broke loose. Fortunately a thread on Reddit about the lack of a song caught the …
Read More »South by Southwest and PAX East to hold $10,000 Hearthstone tournaments next month
Both South by Southwest and PAX East will hold $10,000 Major Hearthstone competitions next month. PAX East will be first up, with its competition running between March 10th and 12th in Boston. South by Southwest will then follow with that event running between March 16th and 18th in Austin. Both …
Read More »Overwatch fastest Blizzard franchise to reach 25m players worldwide
Overwatch has become the fastest Blizzard franchise to reach 25m players worldwide, with its Q4 monthly active users reaching a new franchise high, Activision Blizzard revealed in its Q4 financial results. Overwatch also now holds the record for the strongest launch year in terms of financial performance, beating the previous …
Read More »Blizzard announces $300,000 national Hearthstone team league
Blizzard has announced the Hearthstone Global Games, a team based competition with $300,000 on the line. 48 nations will compete in the event, each fielding a team of four players from that country. Teams will play best of five matches against other nations online, with each player bringing two decks …
Read More »The weekend wrap up: 16/01/2017
Here at eSports Pro we hate event spoilers, but also know that no one has the time to watch every major tournament every weekend. That’s why we are starting up the weekend wrap up, a short post every Monday that lists all of the winners from the previous weekend. In …
Read More »CLG signs three Hearthstone players
Counter Logic Gaming has signed three top Hearthstone players, seemingly in an attempt to play in the new ESL League. Sebastian "Xixo" Bentert, Frederik "Hoej" Nielsen and Kim "Surrender" Jung-soo are the new CLG Hearthstone roster, and were all formerly a part of NaVi. NaVi dropped its entire roster late …
Read More »ESL running $150,000 Hearthstone team league
ESL has announced the ESL Hearthstone Trinity Series, a $150,000 Hearthstone league for teams to compete in. The competition will kick off later this month, with eight teams playing each other once across seven weeks of league play. The competition will then conclude at ESL’s California studios. Virtus Pro, Tempo …
Read More »Misfits enter Hearthstone with three big names
Misfits has announced its entry into the world of Hearthstone by signing three top players. Stanislav “StanCifka” Cifka, George “Georgec” Connolly and Mikulas “Pokrovac” Dio are the three players to be signed to the organisation. All three have played across multiple high level tournaments and done reasonably well. The move …
Read More »Watch Hearthstone pro Cong “StrifeCro” Shu go Global Rallycross racing
Here’s something fun to do while you wait for that clock to hit 5pm and the weekend to officially start. Red Bull has released the 2nd episode of its Away From Keyboard series with StrifeCro going racing. StrifeCro is of course a Hearthstone player for Cloud9, but for this episode …
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