New Heroes of the Storm Patch Adds Monk and Freebies for Diablo 3 Players!

The latest Heroes of the Storm patch is now available, and it adds a number of new things including the Monk character from Diablo III, Kharazim. Khar is the first support-class character in HotS from the Diablo series. He's setup to do the healing for your team, but, you're free to pick some traits that allows for him to kick some tail!

Depending on your choice, every third basic attack will either heal a nearby teammate with the lowest health, deal twice as much damage, or restore some of his mana. His heroic abilities include one that makes him invulnerable and deals a large amount of damage, and another that protects a teammate from death for three seconds.

If you play Diablo III and log in to Heroes of the Storm anytime in the three weeks following the launch of the patch, you will get the Diablo character free in HotS. Also, a free mount is available if you reach level 70 with a season 4 character in the upcoming season of Diablo III.

And lastly, there's a portrait border and pennant in Diablo III that will now unlock for anyone who has reached level 12 in HotS.

Other changes in today's patch include alterations to ranked modes, the introduction of dynamic bundles (which discount their price if you own some of their contents), balance tweaks, and new AI difficulty settings.

You can check out the full patch notes on Blizzard's website.

And keep your eyes open for some other new characters in HotS including StarCraft's medic and Artanis, and Warcraft's Rexxar.

New Hearthstone Adventures Could be on the Horizon

New Hearthstone Adventure could be coming in April!

Hearthstone. The game the combines incredibly nerdy people who love World of Warcraft and the people who love trading card games like Magic the Gathering. Most of the time, these people are one in the same. And don't take offense...I'm one of these people!

Hearthstone's next single-player expansion is expected to go live in April, according to a new report with details from a purported insider at Blizzard.

An article by Yahoo Finance contributor, Tae Kim, indicates that this new adventure will be PVE focused, similar to the Naxxramas campaign that is in the game currently.

Instead of matching up against real-life opponents, these campaigns pit you against an AI controlled enemy that gets seemily more difficult the further you advance. It also seems like they always have a special set of cards that really turn the advantage of the face-off in their favor...so they are pretty challenging.

Blizzard has yet to comment on this report.

Hearthstone has been widely successful since it's creation in 2014, winning several awards and gaining over 75 million players world wide. It also helps that they have released the game on mobile platforms and will soon be release the game to mobile phones (iPhone, Android markets).

If you love TCGs and you have some interest in WoW or fantasy elements, I'd highly recommend Hearthstone. Blizzard has done an amazing job at creating a very polished electronic TCG. Oftentimes this translation to electronic devices can be a bit clunky in the TCG universe. But, the animations, sounds and experience are wonderful with Hearthstone.

And, this game is VERY family friendly. If you aren't sure if you should have your kiddos playing WoW, you can definitely introduce them to the universe with Hearthstone.