Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft was released for PC and iPads in spring this year, and it’s hugely popular. A free to play digital card game, you take turns to battle against opponents to gain experience points and access to more cards to battle with.
There are over 20 million hearthstone players according to Blizzard, writing on its Battle.net blog. The post highlights the team’s development achievements this year, and goes on to explain its next steps.
Bringing Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft to Android tablets will be the next move. This should happen bu the end of 2014. But mobile users won’t feel left out for long – the game should be available for iPhone and Android phones in early next year. Blizzard says it has a test build running internally, but ‘it needs a bit more work… we’ll be ready to share it with you.. early next year.’
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The challenge with phones is adapting the game’s user interface to work well on smaller screens, and Blizzard would prefer to ‘take the extra time’ making that work well, than release a lazy port of the game designed for bigger screens.
Source: Battle.net Blog
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