After a lot of hype from Blizzard in the wake of its reveal at Blizzcon last month, Hearthstone’s first proper expansion has released to players around the world.

Goblins vs Gnomes added over 120 new cards to the mix, including an awful lot of ‘random card’ effects which can do everything from giving you a random ‘Spare Part’ card to making it a 50/50 chance you attack the wrong opponent (thanks to those pesky Ogre cards). They also introduce a new minion type: the ‘Mech’.

The expansion launched first on the North American server but problems saw the release in further territories delayed as a result. Indeed the EU servers didn’t see release until quite late last night and even then it came with some authentication server issues that took an hour or two to clear up. Fortunately, there don’t seem to have been any purchase issues with the new card packs like the ones that plagued some of Naxxramas’ first few weeks. Well, unless you hastily forgot to check which card packs you were buying before you purchased as some unlucky players already have…

Blizzard are giving 3 free packs of the new cards to all players who log in before December 19th for a launch event so log in to claim those if you haven’t already.

And keep an eye on our own Twitch page for a livestream from 2pm BST. I’ve six card packs to open for you and a deck to hopefully construct.

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