What Do You Get When You Put Hearthstone™: Heroes of Warcraft™ On iPad®? Fun!
April 02 2014 - 5:00PM
Business Wire
App Store℠ rollout of Blizzard Entertainment’s
critically acclaimed digital card game begins in select regions;
coming soon to rest of planet
Blizzard Entertainment is pleased to inform swagnificent,
Zippi79, MrHeed, JohnTheTree, Successlol, SpiritGuard, AnimaLeet,
Waffles, Thinkzalot, SwaggishMike, and everyone else who was asking
online, that Hearthstone™: Heroes of Warcraft™, its free-to-play
digital card game, is now available on iPad® in Canada, Australia,
and New Zealand, with the iPad App Storesm release for the rest of
the world coming soon.
“Hearthstone’s player base has already grown to more than 10
million registered accounts following the official Windows® and
Mac® release,* but we saw that a few people online were holding out
for the iPad version,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of
Blizzard Entertainment. “Instead of calling those folks up
individually, we figured we might as well let everyone know that
the global iPad rollout for Hearthstone has begun, and pretty soon
it’ll be available everywhere. The game is a natural fit for
tablets—we encourage everyone to check it out on their couch, in
their backyard, in a coffee shop . . . or anywhere else they take
their iPads.†”
In addition to Australians’, Canadians’, and New Zealanders’
iPads, Hearthstone is available for Windows and Mac PCs globally,
with iPad support for the rest of the world coming soon. Android™
device, iPhone, and Windows tablet versions are also in development
and will be available in the future.
Visit playhearthstone.com or the iPad App Store (select regions)
today to learn more about Hearthstone, download the game for free,
and start having fun!
About Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft® and
the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® franchises, Blizzard
Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision
Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), is a premier developer and publisher of
entertainment software renowned for creating some of the industry’s
most critically acclaimed games. Blizzard Entertainment’s track
record includes sixteen #1-selling games* and multiple Game of the
Year awards. The company’s online-gaming service, Battle.net®, is
one of the largest in the world, with millions of active
players.
*Based on internal company records and/or reports from key
distribution partners.†Internet connection required so that the
Battle.net® gnomes can keep your card collection up to date across
platforms.Apple, Mac, and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc.,
registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service
mark of Apple Inc.Android is a trademark of Google, Inc.
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