BlizzCon 2008 announced

by Michael Zenke May 12th 2008 at 11:45AM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Events, real-world

A press release across the newsires has announced an unexpected development: Blizzard will be throwing another BlizzCon this year. BlizzCon 2008 will be the third such event the company has thrown, with last year's BlizzCon 2007 a hugely successful outing. Wisely, the planners of the event have chosen to schedule the convention outside of the summer busy season. We can expect to see the doors to Blizzard's gameworlds thrown wide on the 10th and 11th of October.

The release states that the event will run for two full days, and is tentatively planned to have a bevy of familiar-sounding events. Attendees will be able to have play-time with upcoming Blizzard releases, participate in discussion panels with developers, play in a WoW TCG tourney, and (of course) engage in a little cosplay. "Whenever we've been able to meet and interact with Blizzard gamers from around the world, it's been a great experience for us," stated Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We're looking forward to seeing even more of our players at this year's BlizzCon and delivering another entertaining and informative event for them

Between Massively and sister site WoW Insider you can be sure that the Joystiq network will be all over this event come the fall. Stay tuned for more details as they become available.

Tags: blizzard, blizzcon2008, breaking, world-of-warcraft, wow, wow-tcg

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Leshrac said on 12:14PM 5-12-2008

I just booked my 2-room suite =). BlizzCons are major geekfests.

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