Heroes of the Storm is getting a Brawl Mode

Blizzard came out today and said that they're replacing Heroes of the Storm's Arena mode with a "Heroes Brawl" mode on October 17. Arena mode was released back at Blizzcon 2015.

This new Brawl mode will change every week, just like Overwatch and Hearthstone Brawl modes.

"It promises to deliver “surreal twists” and “custom rulesets” with weekly rewards.One “Brawl” variation will be “Hammer Time,” which makes all players Sgt. Hammers “with thrusters are permanently engaged,” a Blizzard representative explained. In the mode’s new “Lost Cavern” arena, players will only have access to one lane. Total, three new arenas will accompany the update, as well as gameplay modifiers that Blizzard says they don’t want to spoil." (Kotaku)

Watch the trailer here.

I can tell you right now that that trailer is the most exciting thing I've seen for Heroes in a super long time. The game needs a face lift to bring in more players as well as keep their main player base active. This is one way to do it. New content is always a good thing and I'm looking forward to this update-which will be ready in a week or so.

Blizzard told Gamespot that they're ditching Arena because of design constraints. They also said that instead of being objective based and pushing cores, its more about absolute slaughter.

The PTR launches October 10th and on October 17th the update will available for everyone.