Fan favourite and launchboard event for all major Blizzard gaming annoucements, BlizzCon, has been sheleved until next year as Blizz are “heavily focused on getting Diablo III, Mists of Pandaria, and Heart of the Swarm into players’ hands as soon as possible”.
While I’ve no doubt this is true, particularly with MoP as WoW players will be chomping at the bit before long for new content while nerfs roll onto servers in coming weeks. I can’t help but feel though that the reason they aren’t hosting the event this year is due to having no big show making annoucements to dazzle gamers with this year after dropping just about everything major on each franchise at last years event.
To make up for not having a Con this year however, Blizzard have annouced the 2012 Battle.net Word Championship on their blog saying;
Blizzard Entertainment is proud to announce the 2012 Battle.net World Championship, a major global eSports event featuring some of the best pro-gaming competition in the world. Slated to take place in Asia toward the end of 2012, the Battle.net World Championship will host this year’s StarCraft II and World of Warcraft Arena World Championship tournaments. Blizzard gamers and eSports fans from around the world will be invited to attend and witness some of the most skilled pro players on the planet battle it out for cash and glory.
Congratulations to Blizzard for continuing to support eSports through the regular tournaments by hosting the pro matches in more hardcore playing Asia, however they will also be disappinting a great number of fans who will have spent crazy amounts of time designing costumes for the ever popular Costume Competition along with the regular fix of major news people have come to expect from them every year.
- Darren “NO NEW WoW PET!! NOOOOOOO!” Fotheringham
