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Weekly News Recap

With the launch of open beta in all Hearthstone regions, our site update, and a developer interview with Hamilton Chu, it's been a crazy week!

• January 20
• We posted a decklist round-up for the weekend's tournaments.
• Episode 2 of Hearthstone Mythbusters hit the tubes. How long does fatigue last?
• January 21
• Blizzard announced the beginning of the Hearthstone Open Beta in North America!
• We posted several resources for new players getting into Hearthstone. Some of which include:
• Darhoth's Hearthstone 101.
• List of Quests and Dailies.
• Class Leveling Rewards.
• Secrets Handbook.
• Earning Gold in Hearthstone.
• January 22
• Blizzard announced the beginning of the Hearthstone Open Beta in Europe!
• January 23
• Our January website update went live. Highlights include:
• New deck search page.
• New deck page layout.
• Streaming section.
• Arena Sim: Fixed some basic cards that weren't showing up.
• Deckbuilder: You can now remove cards from your deck by right-clicking on them from the deck contents list.
• Blizzard announced that the Hearthstone Open Beta is now Worldwide.
• ManaGrind posted their tournament interviews with Chakki (NA) and Kaldi (EU).
• Episode #17 of Value Town was live on the internets. ChanmanV, Kripparrian, and Trump discussed Legendary Cards!
• January 24
• Hearthstone's Executive Producer, Hamilton Chu, was interviewed in China. We learned some new stuff!
• New premium content which will not influence game balance is incoming. This will include: new heroes, new card backs, new game boards.
• The first expansion will contain between 100 and 200 cards.
• 2v2 is currently not being worked on. 1v1 needs to be solid first.
• Observer mode is on the list of things to do, but is not being actively worked on.
• Blizzard posted Top 100 rankings for NA and EU ladders.

Hearthstone Handbook #1 - The Game Basics

Noxious has released the first video in his new video series titled Hearthstone Handbook. The series is primarily aimed at newer players, but even the old might be able to learn something new! In this video, Noxious goes over a long list of subjects which include: card anatomy, an introduction to crafting, heroes, and card mechanics.

Stay tuned for the next episode, which is going to discuss Deck Archetypes and the Metagame.

Community Spotlight

In today's Community Spotlight, we're going to take a look at FonteTavina's take on the Hearthstone Death Knight, and a new website to help you choose cards in the Arena, ArenaValue!

The Hearthstone Death Knight

FonteTavina on our forums posted a great thread on our forums detailing what their ideal Death Knight class would look like. Check out a couple of cards below, and be sure to visit the full thread on our forums to see all 36 magnificent cards.

ArenaValue

From the creator of Hearthstone Stats, comes another tool of epic proportions. ArenaValue is a great little website / program which helps you get an idea of which card in your arena draft is the best card to pick based on its value score. Value is calculated based on data from various high-end arena players' spreadsheets, and the cards that are currently in your deck. The tool is currently in beta, and hsstats would appreciate any feedback you have to go in this thread.

See you in the arena!

Top 5 Plays of the Week

GiantKiller of 2pPressStart published a new episode of Hearthstone, Top 5 Plays of the Week. This week's plays come from Animal, Hafu, Sharpie, Reckful, StrifeCro. Congratulations guys on some great plays!