At BlizzCon® 2018, more than 40,000 gamers gathered to celebrate and be among the first to learn what’s coming next for their favorite Blizzard games, and to cheer on some of the top esports competitors in the world, with millions more tuning in online. For two days, the Anaheim Convention Center was packed with developer panels, friendly competition, and live entertainment as the Blizzard community learned about and went hands-on with new heroes, new content updates, and new games coming to the company’s stable of blockbuster franchises.

Attendees and viewers also witnessed the dramatic conclusions to numerous esports championships and exhibition-style competitions as they unfolded across multiple stages.

Among the playoffs featured were world championships for major games such as StarCraft® II, Heroes of the Storm®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Hearthstone®, and StarCraft: Remastered Show Match: KSL vs. ASL. The championships saw winning teams from across different countries, mostly South Korea and China, in majority of games.

In addition to all of the epic esports action, Blizzard had several major game highlights during the show, including an authentic Diablo experience for mobile devices with Diablo Immortal™, a mobile MMO action-RPG that presents a new chapter in the globally acclaimed series, a new hero – Ashe, the notorious gunslinging outlaw who will soon be joining the roster of Overwatch, Blizzard’s widely acclaimed team-based shooter.

For World of Warcraft fanatics, anticipate the war between the Horde and the Alliance reaches a crucial turning point in Tides of Vengeance, the upcoming first major content update for the Battle for Azeroth^® expansion coming the week of December 10 that will bring the Battle of Dazar’alor raid, the Battle for Darkshore warfront, and more.