BlizzCon Announced

[Evil Avatar]

Blizzard has announced their first official gaming convention.

BlizzCon Gaming Festival Announced

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is proud to announce the very first Blizzard Convention, to take place on October 28 & 29 in Orange County, California. BlizzCon is a celebration of our Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo franchises and the players who have helped make them so popular around the world. Attendees can look forward to a variety of events, including participating in question and answer panels with the developers of World of Warcraft and StarCraft: Ghost, playing Blizzard games live with friends, and watching the world's best Warcraft III and StarCraft pro-gamers compete in the BlizzCon Invitational tournament.

Further details and information about ticket sales will be posted in the weeks ahead on www.blizzard.com (http://www.blizzard.com/).

WHAT: BlizzCon will be an ideal event for gamers from around the world to meet each other, participate in live Q&A’s with Blizzard developers, and share their passion for their favorite Blizzard games.

WHO: Gamers who enjoy playing any of the games developed by Blizzard Entertainment.

WHERE: Orange County, California. Exact location to be announced at a later date.

WHEN: Friday and Saturday, October 28 and 29, 2005. The event begins at 8 a.m. PDT on both days.

[Evil Avatar]

Sounds like fun. Next year I'm going to do World Horror Convention (http://www.whc2006.org/), but I still want to make it to an E3, GenCon and QuakeCon eventually.

[Heretic Machine]

I just want to go to DragonCon, personally...

[KDups]

So $20 this is where they announce the next Diablo or Starcraft. I think everyone expected something at E3, this may be why they held off.

[Hijinx]

Oh dear God..... :eek:

[TrackZero]

Sounds like fun. Next year I'm going to do World Horror Convention (http://www.whc2006.org/), but I still want to make it to an E3, GenCon and QuakeCon eventually.

I thought GenCon "ain't what it used to be", or has it had a resurgence in recent years?

[Klade]

I don't think they will announce starcraft or diablo this year. But I do think they will announce officially and give details on the World of Warcraft expansion we already know has been in development. Unless they announce it before. If they do then they would announce something else. You don't hold one of these for the first time unless you plan to announce a new product of some sort.

And yes they have unofficially confirmed the expansion but this would be where they do it for real.

[SBKidJamX]

Wow, this is gonna be right my backyard.

Awesome.