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Hearthstone the New King of Gaming Scene?
Posted: Feb 16, 2016
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is an online collectible card game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. It is free-to-play with optional purchases to acquire additional cards and access adventures more easily.
At The Game Awards 2014, Hearthstone was awarded best mobile/handheld game In December 2014, GameSpot awarded the game with mobile game of the year. GameTrailers awarded the game with multiplayer game of the year and best overall game of 2014. At the DICE Awards 2014, the game was awarded with mobile game of the year and strategy/simulation game of the year. The game won the 2014 BAFTA Video Games Award for best multiplayer game. It was nominated for the eSports Game of the Year Award at The Game Awards 2015. It has received generally favorable reviews upon release, holding a score of 87.57% on GameRankings and 88 on Metacritic based on a dozen reviews by major video game critics. The game was praised for its simplicity, gameplay pace, and attention to detail along with being free-to-play, while the lack of actual card trading between players and any form of tournament mode were pointed out as the major shortcomings. Eurogamer gave the game the perfect score of 10 and remarked that the game is \"overflowing with character and imagination, feeds off and fuels a vibrant community of players and performers, and it only stands to improve as Blizzard introduces new features, an iPad version and expansions.\"IGN and Game Informer both gave the game a slightly lower grade of 9/10, with IGN\'s Justin Davis praising the game for its \"elegant simplicity of rules\" and \"impressive attention to detail and personality, and the true viability of playing completely for free make it easy to fall under its spell and get blissfully lost in the depths of its strategic possibilities.\" GameSpot gave the game a score of 8/10, praising the game for its depth and complexity.
Later Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft card expansions have also been well received. Game informer rated the Curse of Naxxramas expansion 9/10, stating "Naxxramas is an excellent addition to the core game, and an exploration of sorts to examine the potential for additional single-player Hearthstone content the adventure provides a substantial amount of new content that spills over into ranked, casual, and arena mode and changes how you approach the game." Pc games found that "Curse of Naxxramas is a much-needed and fun refresher for Blizzard’s card battler", however "the next card expansion will need to be more sizeable", rating it 78/100 Reception for Goblins vs. Gnomes has also been positive, with Game Informer writing "the first expansion set for Hearthstone is a major step forward for the already accessible and fun game", and awarding it a score of 9.25/10, while Eurogamer scored it a 80/100, writing "whatever happens to Hearthstone in the future, the new content has stumbled a little by strengthening certain deck archetypes that needed no such help - it's re-introduced a thoughtfulness to play that's been absent for too long.
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The author Hans Viegen is currently living in Vienna, Austria. He is focusing on writing game reviews and similar topics. Currently he enjoy playing Hearthstone mainly as the article suggests.