The Hearthstone Team Has Borkers and Kittehs - January 2019
In an important update this afternoon, the Hearthstone team has released the January 2019 edition of the Hearthstone Pupdate.
Quote from BlizzardA lot of magic, machinations, and memeing go on behind closed doors at the Hearthstone development team. An assistant (or several) is often required. So without further ado, meet the good boys and girls of the Hearthstone development team!
Administrative
Kippen is Organized since he is on the Administrative team! If you need proof of that, just look at how neatly he keeps his tail tucked in when he’s lying down.
Production
Toby helps wrangle the team up and keep them in line so production moves like clockwork. He’s also really good at math.
Art
Mini Golden Retriever Harley helps with the art outsourcing when necessary. Otherwise, he is busy with the most important task of the day: napping.
Mishu brings a different perspective to things since she’s a cat, and that’s helpful for projects that she and Harley collaborate on. She also wants you to remember that out of all the cats in Hearthstone, she is Best Cat.
Business
Gary works on Hearthstone business things. Don’t let the fluff fool you—he is one shrewd businessdog.
Design
Leela lives far from the office and only comes in for special projects with the design team. Leela staunchly believes that there’s no such thing as a bad idea, which is why she continues to insist on a “Beg for Treats” emote option.
Engineering
When it comes to Hearthstone, this dog might lose a little, but he Wins-a-Ton. Keeping everyone company in the Engineering department, Winston’s latest project is discovering how to automate behind-the-ear scratches.
Business Intelligence
With the perfect name to match his shining disposition, Sunny brightens our days with his keen insights into all things business intelligence.
Quality Assurance
Nimbus can usually be found hard at work testing the game in the QA department. Gary and Nimbus have a long-standing friendly rivalry over who is the better cloud.
These are just some of the pets who support Hearthstone behind the scenes! Want to see more Hearthstone pupdates? Let us know on Twitter or Facebook!
Pet owners are the worst kind of people.
Beautiful pics of dogs and cats? This really melts me, Blizzard. You people really know how to get to my heart...
Finally some recognition of Dog!
Fun Fact: Pets on the Blizzard Campus have to "sign" an NDA:
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/21015731/pet-playground-animals-at-the-blizzard-campus
Welp, there goes my Academic Espionage plan.
Registered pets mention dogs, cats, turtles, and fish. Article states that pets sign the NDA by putting the pawprint on it. This leads me to an important question: how would a fish sign an NDA if it has no paws? Does Blizzard dip the fish in ink and slap it against the page? If not, this is a potential loophole, and there are at least 4 fish in the building willing to divulge those precious secrets.
Now this is an important update!
Kippen is obviously the cutest.
We all knew you were a man of culture due to your avatar pic, but now we can see you are also a man of good taste.
+1
:D I have a soft spot for huskies
Who let the dogs out? Hearthstone, obviously.
9 pets, for 9 classes. These are teasers for the next expansion's Class Legendaries (one set, at least). So which two classes are the feline classes, I wonder (my money is on Hunter and Priest)?
I think Gary might be the Rogue, Leela sounds like a Warlock to me, and I think Toby is Hunter. Mishu I think might be Priest, and I'm putting down Sunny for Paladin. Nimbus sounds like a Shaman. Harley for Warrior, maybe? That leaves Mage for Winston.
Maybe it's about last one? Having Tiger and Lynx as "cats"?
wow, this is so smart, i was wonder why on earth blizzard would go about posting such random stuff.
R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S
Hearthstone Immortal next expansion.
We have phones.
Ah no wonder HS has gone to shit the team is run by cats and dogs..go figure
Ok a post about doggos and cats. I would complain but we got about a week ago a dev blog about nerfing cards which is acceptable and at this stage there isn't much to announce/disscuss the game is about to change big time in april after the DKs rotate. and we got nerfs at a good time.
Wholesome post for people who like pets, I guess some people would like it more than others.. Blizzard doesn't deserve bashing for this post, as it doesn't come after a long time of doing nothing or a recent controversy.
im not bashing on the hearthpwn team... i was addressing on the blizzards urge to come up with dogs... hearthpwn isnt to blame here...
Behold tinfoilhatters!
This is new expansion TEASER!
Year of the Doggo is coming.