<p>Blizzard today announced that their newest Battleground – originally announced earlier this year at Gamescom – will be available for players today in Heroes Of The Storm.</p>
<p>Released alongside the other 8 existing Battlegrounds, &#8216;Infernal Shrines&#8217; is themed after Blizzard&#8217;s popular RPG Diablo and will be part of a special reduced map rotation over the course of this weekend.</p>
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<p>Infernal Shrines will make up the multiplayer rotation alongside Battlefield of Eternity, Cursed Hollow, Dragon Shire, Sky Temple, and Tomb of the Spider Queen for August 26nd to September 2nd.</p>
<p>Blackheart&#8217;s Bay, Haunted Mines, and Garden of Terror will be removed. You can still play them through Custom Games.</p>
<p>As well as this new map Blizzard had their share of other announcements at Gamescom this year in the form of three other playable characters for Heroes Of The Storm; Kharazim, Rexxar and Artanis.</p>
<p>Though Rexxar and Artanis – themed from WoW and Starcraft respectively – the Diablo themed Kharazim is already available for players to make use of.</p>
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<p><strong>Source: </strong>Activision-Blizzard (via <a href="http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/forum/topic/18695102503" target="_blank">Battlenet</a>)</p>

Heroes Of The Storm Gets A New Battleground

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