Blizzard announces the return of BlizzCon as a live event in November

17.05.2023

BlizzCon, the convention focused around all points Blizzard, is back on the calendar after a multi-year hiatus. The Anaheim Convention Center will certainly organize BlizzCon on November 3 as well as 4 this year, as well as Blizzard will certainly launch even more info on competitors, cosplay, as well as tickets following month.

This is the very first time in 4 years that BlizzCon will certainly be kept in individual, as opposed to online. The COVID-19 pandemic was a noticeable deterrent for in-person celebrations in 2020. It has actually been a turbulent couple of years for Blizzard, as well as not even if of COVID. In summertime 2021, Activision Blizzard was the subject of a lawsuit from the state of California declaring the author had actually promoted a setting of “constant sexual harassment.” And for the previous couple of years, Microsoft has actually been attempting to buy Activision Blizzard, browsing governing problems around the largest purchase offer pc gaming has actually ever before seen.

The ambience around Blizzard stays unclear. Overwatch 2’s big PVE campaign plans were recently scaled down substantially, as well as a return-to-office mandate has reportedly led to significant employee attrition that will certainly remain to influence Blizzard’s items.

BlizzCon will certainly have information, info, as well as occasions centred around its large residential properties, consisting of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Hearthstone, as well as Diablo 4, which is readied to launch on June 6. We might see even more information on the upcoming Warcraft mobile game Arclight Rumble, yet it stays to be seen whether Blizzard will certainly reveal any kind of brand-new titles or significant updates at the convention. Blizzard regularly streams together with the convention, so followers that can’t make it face to face will certainly still have the ability to overtake the panels, trailers, as well as updates disclosed at the program.