Hearthstone's Next Expansion and New Class Officially Revealed at BlizzCon
Hearthstone players can look forward to the Reign of the Black Empire expansion and a new Monk class soon, according to BlizzCon 2026.
Why am I seeing this Ranked on pickup rate — 1 orgs
This is spreading. 1 org landed on it, and it is the RATE of pickup rather than the raw count that puts it this high.
Single-sourced. No second organisation has confirmed it yet.
Link-outLink-out, because only one organisation carries it and no first-party source is on it and the subject could not be identified from the text. Link-out means we point at the publisher and say nothing of our own.
| Factor | Weight | Score | Contribution | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corroboration | 0.35 | 0.39 | +0.135 20% | 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true. |
| Source trust | 0.25 | 0.75 | +0.188 28% | Polygon is the highest-trust source on this story. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged. |
| Pickup rateleads | 0.20 | 0.95 | +0.189 28% | One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate. |
| Freshness | 0.20 | 0.84 | +0.168 25% | Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent. |
Corroboration counts distinct organisations, once each, and only from tiers 1 and 2. Freshness halves every 10 hours, so this ranking is a snapshot and will differ at the next build.
What happened
Hearthstone players can look forward to the Reign of the Black Empire expansion and a new Monk class soon, according to BlizzCon 2026. Blizzard confirms hero 54 for Overwatch, the vampiric support hero Doctrine, alongside a new map, the return of Dokiwatch, and more.
How this story arrived
Ordered by when each source was first observed, which is what the velocity figure is computed from. Publishers backdate; observed order does not.
- 01 Polygon first seen Hearthstone's Next Expansion and New Class Officially Revealed at BlizzCon
- 02 Polygon +0m Overwatch's Next Hero, Doctrine, Officially Revealed at BlizzCon 2026
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