'Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft' Launches on iPhone

[MacRumors]

Blizzard Entertainment's popular card battling game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft today finally launched on iPhone, after becoming available on tablets, including iPad, nearly one year ago. The new support comes as a universal update to the existing iOS app.

The game made the leap to Android and iOS tablets following its initial Mac and PC launch in March of 2014, with MacRumors' sister site TouchArcade reporting numerous stories throughout the year regarding the game's much-rumored launch on iPhone.

Hearthstone is free-to-play, but users can opt in to purchase card packs when their personal bank of in-game gold is sufficiently lacking. The game tasks players with collecting and organizing a constantly shifting array of card types for each one of its drastically different nine classes, aiming for an opponent's weaknesses in a battle to whittle down each others' 30-point health system to zero.

As with all versions of the game, iPhone users with previous experience in the Hearthstone world will be able to sync all of their custom decks, gold count, and experience to the new iPhone app by signing into their Battle.net accounts. Though some die-hard fans remain skeptical about the game's proper transition to such a small screen, the launch of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus last year can undoubtedly provide a more comfortable Hearthstone experience while still maintaining a bit more portability over its tablet-focused counterparts.

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

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[Sammilux]

Thanks for the push notification. All the rest of the games on my iPhone can now rest in peace.

 

[Jessica Lares]

A5 support, awesome!

How many people are going to put it on their dock? Heh.

 

[Asuriyan]

Hell... It's about time.

 

[Trik]

I can already feel my legs falling asleep from sitting on the toilet too long....

 

[bpcookson]

This is bad for me. Very bad.

 

[Derekuda]

Just an FYI, it's also releasing on Android phones today for you Android users.

 

[definitive]

Well met!

 

[ToroidalZeus]

i tried it. it's okay but yu-gi-oh was better.

 

[Yamcha]

Should be fine. I play it on my 5.5" 1+ One and it's playable..

 

[egeek84]

As a huge fan of Blizzard and Hearthstone in particular and as someone who has sinked hundreds of dollars in this game already, F YEAH BABY, HELL ITS ABOUT TIME!! WOOT

PS - it runs PERFECT on my iphone 6 plus, well done!

 

[Dayv]

I may actually start playing again. Trying to play it on my first-gen iPad Mini was a soul-crushing experience in resource-hogging.

 

[AlecZ]

Another game for people to play in CS70 discussion class. Ugh.

 

[SteveJobs2.0]

Works excellent on iPhone 6+

 

[andy318]

Finally! Played a couple of rounds on my iPhone 6 and it worked great.

 

[b0r3dguy]

Works excellent on iPhone 6+

It sure does! I don't have to lug my iPad to the toilet anymore!

"Nature will rise against you!"

 

[Reason077]

Well met!

Your soul shall be mine!

 

[Bane-Thunder]

Played a round on my iPhone 6. They actually pulled it off it works perfectly and doesn't feel any less of the pc experience.

 

[metalsoul192]

I love this game, but it drains the battery of my iPhone (and iPad) very fast.

 

[joemod]

Thaks for the laugh guys and girls. Great comments