in 2008. The game reached a peak 12 million subscribers worldwide in October 2010. World of Warcraft has had eight expansions as of 2022 with a ninth on the way. During the production of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce stated that "If there's a team that's passionate about doing another Warcraft [real-time strategy], then that's definitely something we would consider. It's nothing that we're working on right now, we have development teams working on Cataclysm, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Diablo III, and when those teams are all off the projects they're working on, they'll be intimately involved in the discussions about what's next". In 2013, Blizzard announced a new free-to-play online digital collectible card game, originally titled Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, with the beta being available in summer of 2013. In March 2014, Hearthstone was released. In addition to free-to-play basic gameplay Hearthstone contains fee-based features such as additional card packs. On May 3, 2022, Blizzard announced a new Warcraft free-to-play mobile game called Warcraft Arclight Rumble. In 2022, Blizzard and NetEase cancelled an unannounced World of Warcraft mobile spin-off game. Other media Tabletop games Warcraft: The Board Game – strategic board game from Fantasy Flight Games, based on Warcraft III Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game – role-playing game from Sword & Sorcery Studios World of Warcraft: The Board Game – board game based on World of Warcraft, also by Fantasy Flight Games World of Warcraft: The Adventure Game – board game based on World of Warcraft, also by Fantasy Flight Games World of Warcraft Miniatures Game – a miniature war game based on World of Warcraft, by Upper Deck Entertainment. Collectible card games World of Warcraft Trading Card Game – 2006-2013 Novels Warcraft: Of Blood and Honor (2000) Warcraft: Day of the Dragon (2001) Warcraft: Lord of the Clans (2001) Warcraft: The Last Guardian (2002) Warcraft: War of the Ancients (2007) The Well of Eternity (2004) The Demon Soul (2004) The Sundering (2005) World of Warcraft: Cycle of Hatred (2006) Warcraft Archive (2006) World of Warcraft: The Chronicles of War (2010) World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde (2006) World of Warcraft: Tides of Darkness (2007) World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal (2008) World of Warcraft: Night of the Dragon (2008) World of Warcraft: Arthas: Rise of the Lich King (2009) World of Warcraft: Stormrage (2010) World of Warcraft: The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm