
Hearthstone 36.0.3 Patch Notes (21st July 2026)
Hearthstone's first major balance patch for Escape from Violet Hold is live, targeting underperforming classes and reining in dominant strategies across Standard and Wild.
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Hearthstone's first major balance patch for Escape from Violet Hold is live, targeting underperforming classes and reining in dominant strategies across Standard and Wild.

Haunted Mines joins Ranked rotation, Ragnaros gets a substantial rework, and a dozen heroes face rebalancing in today's patch.

Director Peter Berg confirmed at Fanatics Fest that the upcoming Call of Duty film will be set in the Modern Warfare universe, passing over Black Ops entirely.

Blizzard's latest hotfix rebalances Protoss and Terran against Zerg, with Command Center cost cuts and Colossus buffs leading the charge.

Team 4 is testing 6v6 formats through Quick Play Hacked events to address tank role stress and match fairness, with two experiments running later this month.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 was set to hit Game Pass on July 21. Microsoft pulled it without a word of explanation, despite owning the game, the IP, and the publisher.

Blizzard has rolled out hotfixes targeting PvP balance across Demon Hunters, Death Knights, Druids, and more, alongside fixes for quest progression and The Voidspire raid.

Trophy lists for the upcoming Black Ops 1 and 2 PlayStation ports have surfaced, and they paint a picture of classic features left behind. Wager Matches, Theater Mode, and League Play all appear to be missing.

Blizzard's latest hotfix pass rebalances multiple class specs in both PvE and PvP, with Restoration Druid and Shadow Priest receiving notable attention alongside targeted nerfs to overperforming specs.

Season 04 Reloaded explodes across all modes with new multiplayer maps, the Kowakujō Zombies map, and Operation King Killer in Endgame.

Druid gets a significant damage pass while PvP sees sweeping nerfs to burst-heavy specs. Omnium Folio progression is now account-wide after Week 2.

A quick hotfix lands today with some relief for the Community Crafted event grind.

Microsoft is actively pushing Game Pass subscribers toward a $70 purchase for Modern Warfare 4, which won't join the service until Holiday 2027.

Blizzard's new Community Crafted mode lets four pro players redesign Overwatch's entire roster, and the changes are wild.

Blizzard fine-tunes the meta with geyser nerfs, unit timing shifts, and a major Protoss force field rework.

The latest WoW hotfix round fixes Midsummer issues, restores missing PvP effects, and adjusts Mists of Pandaria Classic encounters.

After a week-long playtest drew overwhelmingly negative feedback, Blizzard has restored guaranteed stats to Unique items in Diablo 4's upcoming Season of Death Awakening.

Raven Software's latest update overhauls how gas works and where loot spawns, while Champion's Quest returns with a completely redesigned structure.

A quick hotfix lands today to fine-tune the new Hybrid map, while Season 3's biggest additions settle in.

A small but focused hotfix lands today, tweaking map flow and squashing bugs that were affecting several heroes.

The biggest Diablo 4 patch in weeks lands June 30, and it's rewriting how Unique items work entirely.

Blizzard's latest hotfix round addresses delve display bugs, transmog costs, and class balance across World of Warcraft's multiple versions.

Activision swore off wacky brand collabs after the Beavis and Butt-Head backlash. Now Nicolas Cage is suiting up as a Black Ops 7 Operator, and honestly, I'm not even mad about it.

StarCraft II's latest patch reshapes the early game and fixes long-standing unit issues across Zerg, Terran, and Protoss.