Hearthstone

Hearthstone, originally known as Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, is a free-to-play online collectible card video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. Having been released worldwide on March 11, 2014.The game has been favorably reviewed by critics and is financially successful for Blizzard, making as much as $40 million per month as of August 2017.As of May 2017, Blizzard has reported more than 70 million Hearthstone players. The game has become popular as an eSport, with cash prize tournaments hosted by Blizzard and other organizers.

Hearthstone is a digital-only collectible card game that revolves around turn-based matches between two opponents (player vs. player or player vs. computer opponent) using pre-made decks of cards from their collection.Players start the free-to-play game with a limited collection of basic cards.Hearthstone is set within the Warcraft universe, with its characters, spells and locations drawing from existing lore.Each player is represented by a hero, a character from Warcraft lore representing one of nine specific classes. The classes are defined by their unique hero power that can be used during a player's turn, and the selection of class-specific cards that the player uses to construct the hero's deck.