Mario Kart is a blast and the Destiny beta is everywhere, but the one multiplayer game that's made the most impact on me is Hearthstone, a video game about the power of zoos. » 7/25/14 12:00pm Yesterday 12:00pm

Last season in Hearthstone, Blizzard's digital card drug, I hit rank 14 or 15—an impressive feat, I thought, considering I hadn't bought any card packs since I started playing back in April. » 7/23/14 10:54am Wednesday 10:54am

Hearthstone: Curse of Naxxramas is live! You can download the new Hearthstone add-on on PC and iOS today. The first wing will be free for the next month, so get it now. » 7/22/14 1:59pm Tuesday 1:59pm

Blizzard's addictive digital card game will grow ever more life-consuming tomorrow, as Curse of Naxxramas, the game's first single-player expansion, starts opening up to players all over the globe. » 7/21/14 5:30pm Monday 5:30pm

Hearthstone's big single-player expansion, Curse of Naxxramas, will start rolling out on July 22 for Mac, PC and iOS players, with new parts of it opening up each week for five weeks, Blizzard revealed today. The first part, or "wing", is free if you get in right away, but the pricing is more complicated after that. » 7/17/14 1:26pm 7/17/14 1:26pm

Today in gaming highlights: How to park a boat when you're done with it, how to scare off a Hearthstone opponent in one turn, and a new world record speedrun! » 7/11/14 12:30pm 7/11/14 12:30pm

The best thing about Hearthstone, Blizzard's digital collectible card game, is that just about anything can happen. The worst thing about Hearthstone is that just about anything can happen. » 7/10/14 11:00am 7/10/14 11:00am

Blizzard just announced pricing details for Hearthstone's first single-player mode, Curse of Naxxramas, which they plan to release this month for PC and iOS. » 7/08/14 2:58pm 7/08/14 2:58pm

After yesterday's furor over the gender segregated World Championship events, the IeSF has issued a statement making some events open to anyone. » 7/03/14 6:00am 7/03/14 6:00am

Women aren't allowed to play Hearthstone in one upcoming multi-national tournament, and the gender discrimination has triggered a great deal of controversy this morning. » 7/02/14 10:45am 7/02/14 10:45am

Yesterday, competitive Hearthstone player Radu "RDU" Dima won the DreamHack tournament for Blizzard's digital card game, going home with $10,000. » 6/17/14 3:03pm 6/17/14 3:03pm

When someone buys $50 (or more) worth of Hearthstone cards, they inevitably do some simple math to figure out each card's rarity. But those numbers aren't actually useful for figuring out your chances of getting a legendary or golden card next time. » 6/05/14 4:30pm 6/05/14 4:30pm

When you replace some of the cards in your hand at the start of a Hearthstone match, you expect new cards. What are the chances that you get pretty much the exact same hand back, you think? » 6/02/14 6:00pm 6/02/14 6:00pm

Here at Kotaku, we're way hooked on the digital card game Hearthstone. And we want to get better. So we asked the folks at Blizzard to come drop some knowledge and give us tips on building and playing decks in their fiendishly addictive game. » 5/29/14 5:30pm 5/29/14 5:30pm

I finally bit the bullet and started playing Hearthstone when it was released on iPad, and I've been staring at that buy button for weeks now. So let's figure out if there's anything worth buying in 40 packs of Hearthstone cards. » 5/16/14 4:00pm 5/16/14 4:00pm

YouTuber JimAndNathDoTheGames realized that mousing over a card in Hearthstone sounds similar to a hi hat, and from there, the next step was obvious. Build an arena deck and make a song from the sound effects. » 5/15/14 11:30am 5/15/14 11:30am

You can expect a few things when you watch a Call of Duty montage—like dubstep, horns, dramatic text about no-scopes, and weed references. It's kind of eyeroll-worthy, so it's probably not surprising to hear that when you give Hearthstone videos the same treatment, something very silly happens. » 5/13/14 6:00pm 5/13/14 6:00pm

These Hearthstone cards created by randomnate might not be real, but that doesn't make them any less funny. Heck, with a bit of fine-tuning to make them more balanced, they could actually work inside the game, too. » 5/12/14 3:45pm 5/12/14 3:45pm

Everybody loves Hearthstone. Everybody is talking about Hearthstone. Everyone is playing Hearthstone. But when Blizzard veteran Eric Dodds said he wanted to make a digital card game instead of an MMO, some people within the company were a little puzzled. That all changed when he showed them what he built with a pen,… » 5/04/14 10:30pm 5/04/14 10:30pm