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Vengeancekael · Nov 6, 2015

BlizzCon 2015

The Opening Ceremony is over, but you can watch the replay on YouTube.

WoW Arena World Championships: YouTube / Twitch
Heroes of the Storm World Championships: YouTube / Twitch
Hearthstone World Championships: YouTube / Twitch
Starcraft II WCS Global Finals: Twitch

Overwatch

Release Date: Spring 2016 (PC & XBONE & PS4)
Overwatch: Pre-purchase now!
- 3 editions available: Normal ($40 - PC only) / Origins ($60) / Collector's Edition ($129 - includes Origins bonuses)
(!) All 21 heroes will be available with the base edition; as for future heroes, Blizzard has not yet decided the acquisition plan.
(!) No cross-play: Neither between PC & consoles, nor XBOX & Playstation
Currently, those who pre-purchase the game will not gain beta access
Blizzard supposedly decided to bring Overwatch to consoles after Diablo III's success on those platforms
New map "Hollywood"
3 new heroes
- D.VA & Mei & Genji
Modding support could come, but currently not being worked on (will not be available at launch either)

World of Warcraft

Can now be pre-ordered (early access for Demon Hunter & Level 100 boost)
Charity pet: "Brightpaw" (December 2)
Baby Winston pet for owners of Overwatch: Origins Edition
Beta to start "weeks" after BlizzCon (possibly January)

Heroes of the Storm

New mode "The Arena" (Trailer)
- The same hero can be selected more than once
- Multiple maps
New map "Towers of Doom" (Trailer)
3 new heroes: Greymane, Lunara, Cho'Gall (controlled by two players - cannot be purchased:
Given for free to virtual ticket owners, blizzcon attendees and a select few, but can be acquired if you play in a party with people who own the hero)
Another new hero: Tracer (only with the Overwatch: Origins Edition)

Starcraft II

Blizzard will continue to support Starcraft II for years to come
Starcraft II Mission Packs to be continually developed (Spring 2016)
- Nova Covert Ops (first pack) - Trailer
6 in-game portraits for owners of Overwatch: Origins Edition
Voice packs and unit skins are in the works
- Abathur will be the first voice pack
The development team will now use their free time after Legacy's release to focus on competitive multiplayer, with "large scale changes" possible

Diablo III

"Mercy Wings" for owners of Overwatch: Origins Edition
Patch 2.4 with new content coming soon
- New zone "Greyhollow Island"
- Expanded Adventure Mode (The Eternal Woods & Royal Quarters)
- Existing item sets revamped
- New: "Set Dungeons" - Access will be gained to these non-random dungeons once the player has completed an armor set
- New: "Empowered Rifts"
- New Legendaries
- Buff Interface reworked
- More Stash space: 1 tab can be purchased with gold, up to 10 can be gained through Season Journey
- Season changes
  - From Season 5 onwards, no more season legendaries
  - But "Haedrig's Gift" - a set of items which can be gained through seasons
- Action Combat coming to the PC version
- Full blog post - PTR to be released in the coming weeks

Hearthstone

New adventure: "The League of Explorers"
- Release Date (1st wing): 12 November
New key word "Discover"

Warcraft (Movie)

Director Duncan Jones came on stage (along with some of the cast)
- Says he has played the original Warcraft RTSes, as well as WoW vanilla

Other

December 2015: 20th anniversary of Warcraft 2 - Tides of Darkness
Mike Morhaime's child is already attending esport events.
Battle.net Shop updated
- Overwatch (base) & Overwatch: Origins available for pre-purchase
- World of Warcraft: Legion pre-ordering now available

For detailed coverage of the different panels: MMO-Champion / Reddit Live Pages

Chaosy · Nov 3, 2015

Official teaser for the Warcraft movie. Nuff said.

edit:
Full trailer will be revealed this friday at the Blizzcon opening which will be streamed for free.
Just google to find the time for the stream time.

edit2:
Offical trailer

Archian · Oct 31, 2015

The official contest thread can be found here!

StoPCampinGn00b · Oct 21, 2015

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Archian · Oct 17, 2015

So, as some of you may remember, back in 2012 we announced that users with a total post count of 100 or more would achieve a Grunt rank.

And as we stated back then, this was subject to change. And that change has now arrived!

Check out the overview below:

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