American video game company Blizzard announced on spirit of the laws eroticismJuly 28 that the turn-based collectible card game Hearthstone will return to the Chinese market on Sept. 25. All Chinese server players, including new registrations, who log in will receive all the cards missed in 2023 for free, totaling 2,154 game cards. Last January, all Blizzard games on the Chinese server ceased operations due to failed agreement negotiations with Chinese game publisher NetEase. As a result, Hearthstone, which had been shortlisted for the esports event at the Hangzhou Asian Games 2023, was also removed in September 2023. In April of this year, NetEase and Blizzard announced their reunion by reaching a new game publishing agreement based on over 15 years of cooperation. [TechNode reporting; Hearthstone Weibo]
