Small screens cause Blizzard to delay Hearthstone for smartphones

Blizzard has just dashed your (my) dreams of playing the collectible-card game Hearthstone on your (my) Nexus 5 over the gift-giving holidays to help you (me) ignore your (my) family.

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft now won’t make the leap to Android phones and iPhone until early next year, according to a blog post on Blizzard’s website. You can play the popular card battler on PC, Mac, and iPad, and the company said from the beginning that iPhone and Android would get a version in the second half of 2014. While the phones will have to wait for a smaller take on Hearthstone, Android tablets could still get the game soon. Hearthstone is the 53rd highest-grossing iPad game in the United States, and a release on more platforms should give it a boost as it brings in more players.

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