Battle Commencing in 3...2...1... Heroes of the Storm Now Live

Grab your warglaives, load up your chain gun, and prepare to go ham on the core—Heroes of the Storm is now live.



Heroes of the Storm delivers rowdy team brawls with quick matches, dynamic Battlegrounds, and Blizzard’s trademark strategic gameplay and humour. In Heroes of the Storm, players form teams of five heroes or villains from Blizzard’s different game universes, including Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo, and battle other teams for glory in the Nexus. No matter which roles they choose, players are able to make meaningful contributions to their team’s war effort, and everyone is rewarded for a team victory.

“Nowhere else can you find your favourite heroes and villains from different Blizzard games teaming up and duking it out in short, action-packed battles,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “Players battled each other in over 100 million matches during testing, and we saw tons of surprising strategies and insane last-minute wins—we can’t wait to see what else players come up with now that Heroes of the Storm is officially live.”

 Fun and variety lie at the heart of Heroes of the Storm. Players have a wide range of options for customising how their heroes look and play, with different abilities, skins, and mounts to suit their strategy and personality. And as a place where universes collide, the Nexus features several unique and colourful Battlegrounds, each with different objectives that shape gameplay and create a team-brawler experience unlike any other. The game currently has 37 playable Heroes and 7 Battlegrounds—and more of both are on the way.

Everyone is invited to tune in to the Heroes of the Storm YouTube channel Saturday, June 7, from 5 a.m.–8 a.m. AEST for a special online event—Heroes of the Storm: The Mayhem Begins. Live-streamed from the YouTube studios in Los Angeles, the event will include a sneak peek at never-before-seen content presented by members of the development team, as well as showmatches featuring Jesse Cox, Cloud9, and the reigning Heroes of the Dorm champions, UC Berkeley.

For those who want to get started, you can do that by going to the official site.