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Hearthstone hits 100 million registered players and counting

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Blizzard Entertainment said that its Hearthstone digital collectible card game has hit 100 million registered players. That’s a big accomplishment for a game that debuted on the PC and mobile devices in 2014.

Hearthstone began as a passion project, taking characters from Blizzard’s Warcraft universe and putting them into a digital collectible card game at a time when such games weren’t in the forefront of most fans. Now such games are a $1.5 billion market, according to market researcher SuperData. And Hearthstone reigns here.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.