Blizzard's annual Blizzcon conference kicked off today and during the event's opening ceremony (via TouchArcade), the company announced that its free-to-play battle card game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft will be released during the second half of 2014.

First announced for the Mac, PC, and iPad back in March, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft will also be available on the iPhone when it is released. The collectible card game, which will be free-to-play, is set in the Warcraft universe.

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Sheathe your sword, draw your deck, and get ready for Hearthstone - the fast paced strategy card game that's easy to learn and massively fun. Start a free game on Battle.net and play your cards to sling spells, summon creatures, and command the heroes of Warcraft in duels of epic strategy.

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft recently entered a beta testing phase, with select individuals receiving access to the Mac and PC versions of the game.

Blizzard also announced that Warlords of Draenor will be the next expansion to its massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.

Top Rated Comments

Pressure Avatar
160 months ago
The iPad app is already in internal beta and will come this year.

It's the iPhone app, that will come in 2014.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
aloshka Avatar
160 months ago
Playing beta on mac, would love to see this on the iPad. Really fun game and doesn't take up as much time as WoW did.
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hirshnoc Avatar
160 months ago
I'm watching this stream, they also said it's going to be on Android. GOOD LUCK designing for that!
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Iconoclysm Avatar
160 months ago
thats one petty excuse of a game to be honest ive played the beta and this game is the worst IAP game ever.

Nonsense. One of the fastest playing card games I've ever played, and I've played quite a few.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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