We’ll be updating this liveblog with news from the blizzcon opening ceremony as things get announced!
- The ceremony started with videos of warcraft 1, 2 and 3 and then transitioned into World of Warcraft with the developers talking about it.
- Mike Morhaime comes on to the stage.
- Mike mentions the 20th anniversary of warcraft and the 10th anniversary of WoW.
- The documentary Looking For Group will premier tommorow at 5pm bizzcon time on the main stage.
- Afterwards it’ll be available on the website and youtube.
- In december a new charity pet will be released, proceeds will go to the red cross to battle the ebola virus.
- A sneak peak of the World of Warcraft movie will be shown in the special theater at blizzcon.
- fightforthehorde.com , fightforthealliance.com set up by Legendary pictures
- Heroes of the Storm new things:
- Jaina, Thrall, Lost Vikings as new heroes
- Sky Temple, tomb of the spider queen, new battleground
- Ranked Play
- Closed beta starts January 13th, 2015
- Production Director Jason Chayes enters the stage to talk about Hearthstone
- In December the android tablet version of HS will be released
- The first HS expansion will feature goblins and gnomes. “Goblins vs Gnomes”
- More than 120 new cards
- Explosive Sheep
- Annoy-o-tron
- It will release next month!!
- Game Director Dustin Browder takes the stage to talk about Starcraft 2 (The Legacy of the Void logo is showing in the background).
- Awesome new trailer shown for LotV
- It shows Xel’naga returning as a threat
- You will reunite the scattered Protos tribes.
- LotV is a standalone game and will not need the other two games to play
- The lurker is back
- New Archon mode, you and a teammate will work together to control a single base and a single army
- Chris Metzen enters the stage
- A new game/world is announced!
- Overwatch
- A new world that used to be in a warring state but now in peace due to overwatch
- A futuristic new world
- A cinematic showing peace at first and then showing new heroes/villains of the series that fight each other
- Game Director Jeff Kaplan takes the stage to continue talking about overwatch
- Overwatch is a team based multiplayer shooter
- Another overwatch video is shown
- It shows the different heroes in action
- Beta in 2015
- Sign up at playoverwatch.com