This is great news. Blizzards MOBA Heroes of the Storm is set to enter open beta on May 20th, and release on June 2nd. Up until now it has been in closed beta, only allowing people to play that are randomly selected by blizzard, or lucky enough to receive a code from a friend.

Heroes of the Storm currently has 35 heroes to pick from and 7 maps available to play on. Blizzard has stated they will continue adding new heroes and maps.

I'm a big fan of the game, having played nearly 800 matches in the last 6 or so months. I've been giving out codes to my friends, and as it so happens I still have 3 extra codes sent to me by Blizzard. Sadly they are region locked, only being valid for North America. I'm not sure why they do that because I can play with my friends in Europe and Australia just fine. So the game itself isn't region locked, just the keys.

I was going to do a beta review of the game, but with launch just around the corner I'll wait until the full thing is released. I am also working on a complete guide for the game to go on the site.

You can check out an announcement for the launch below. It doesn't actually contain any gameplay, but a lot of cool edits from the opening cinematic.