{"id":11025,"date":"2015-06-08T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=11025"},"modified":"2015-06-08T12:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:18:36","slug":"hearthstone-teases-new-incoming-game-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2015\/06\/08\/hearthstone-teases-new-incoming-game-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearthstone teases a new incoming game mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayHearthstone\">PlayHearthstone<\/a> account, an animated image was teased displaying a new menu option being added to the familiar <em>Hearthstone<\/em> menu.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Huh, that&#39;s new! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hearthstone?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hearthstone<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/zpA0McRqha\">pic.twitter.com\/zpA0McRqha<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hearthstone (@PlayHearthstone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayHearthstone\/status\/607947945447546881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But what is it? We&#8217;re fairly certain it isn&#8217;t a new cooperative mode since the developers confirmed (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayHearthstone\/status\/572923119758802944\">as of March 2015<\/a>) that there were no plans for it. There are no plans for replays, additional deck slots, or other statistics-related features. I&#8217;ve seen some speculation that it could potentially be some sort of option to allow players to change their cosmetics such as their hero portrait and their card back in a more structured place.<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0I were a betting man (and I am), my gold is on a tournament mode. Players would sign up and once enough player slots are filled, it automates into a single elimination mode. Other digital card games like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.hex.gameforge.com\/tournaments\/game_modes.html#\/\"><em>Hex<\/em> already have tournament modes built in<\/a>. <i>Starcraft 2<\/i>\u00a0is adding automated tournaments in the upcoming\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.battle.net\/sc2\/en\/legacy-of-the-void\/#multiplayer\">Legacy of the Void<\/a><\/em> expansion. Your prizes would be based on your results and the entry requirements would be almost the same as what it takes to enter into the Arena. There&#8217;s no\u00a0confirmation of anything yet, but we&#8217;re sure to\u00a0know soon enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not sure just what&#8217;s coming to Hearthstone next, but we&#8217;re hoping this teaser means a new competitive gaming mode is on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":1994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[2200,2199,2198,230,1214],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11025"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}