Month: August 2009

The Blizzard Fan Art Section has been updated with 3 new artwork from World of Warcraft.

She has lurked in her lair and done battle with the many brave adventurers who travelled to that familiar location over the years.

Now, in honor of the World of Warcraft 5-year anniversary, the dreaded brood mother Onyxia is being revamped to make a return to the forefront of Azeroth, as part of our big plans for the upcoming 3.2.2 content patch.

Check out on this page what we are preparing for this well-known figure of World of Warcraft!

The cast of the popular web series The Guild will once again be making a live appearance at this year’s BlizzCon, participating in a discussion panel and chatting with attendees about all aspects of the show at their booth. Coming off their successful second season, they’ll be giving folks a first-ever sneak preview of their upcoming third season.

The Guild is an independent web-based sitcom that depicts the real-life adventures of a group of online gamers. It’s written for gamers, about gamers, and by a gamer, and has won several prestigious awards for Best Web Series. If you’re not yet familiar with The Guild — or just want to get to know its members better — head over to www.watchtheguild.com to catch all the episodes from Season 1 and 2 right now.

You can now follow all of your favorite Blizzard Entertainment news on Twitter. Just head over to @Warcraft, @StarCraft, or @Diablo for all of the news, events, contests, and more. We’re starting off with a bang, so you can enter contests for each of the franchises:

1. @Warcraft — Let out your #BattleCry to show your allegiance to Horde or Alliance in preparation for BlizzCon! Win Horde and Alliance prize packages while showing off your pictures during the ongoing battle across Twitter!
2. @StarCraft — Are you the biggest #SC2fan? If you are, you will have a chance at 500 StarCraft II beta keys we’re giving away in this challenge.
3. @Diablo — Have you always wanted to have an item in a game that you’ve named? Enter the #d3unique contest with your best item name and you could win the grand prize of seeing your item wielded by Diablo III players worldwide.

As we head into BlizzCon, we’ll also have live coverage and provide a spot to talk about news as it happens in real time. Be sure to check it out for contests and more over the next week.
Do you plan to watch the DIRECTV Pay Per View or Internet stream? We’ll be Twittering live at the event and looking for your tweets!
Things won’t end there, and we’re looking for you to help us reach a twittercal mass on our new Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo Twitter communities.

Ozzy Osbourne, the only mortal to openly challenge the Lich King’s
claim to the title “Prince of Darkness” and survive, will take the stage live at Anaheim Convention Center to rock the closing
ceremonies of BlizzCon 2009.

Although tickets to the convention sold out in minutes, you can still join in with the ‘BlizzCon Virtual Ticket’
live Internet stream or via DIRECTV Pay Per View. The Virtual Ticket will feature 18 hours of BlizzCon coverage, including Ozzy’s live performance, as well as the BlizzCon 2009
exclusive in-game pet: Grunty the Murloc Marine.

Check out the official press release to learn more.