Blizzard is working to bring BlizzCon back in 2023, the awesome video game party

The company, which is in the process of being sold to Microsoft, is looking to reconnect with its on-site community.

Although Covid-19 cases are on the rise again in Spain and other countries around the world, society is slowly returning to full normalcy, including that. celebration of major video game fairs and events. We haven’t had E3 this year, but neither is a BlizzCon planned in the short term, which has managed to bring together thousands of enthusiastic Diablo, Warcraft, and other Blizzard IPs before the pandemic. Now we know it will return in 2023.

“We took a break earlier to celebrate BlizzCon as we reinvented for the future, but we want to return to a live event that allows us to party with the community,” said Mike Ybarra, president of Blizzard Entertainment. LA Times. . “Not so long ago we hired a new event manager, April McKee, who worked hard on this plan. Committed to bringing BlizzCon back in 2023“.

As you remember in the interview, Blizzard had planned to celebrate BlizzConline 2022, an event in the virtual format of BlizzCon at the beginning of the year. However, at the end of 2021, it was decided to cancel the celebration due to harassment complaints about the company and to use the resources allocated to the event to support the teams and the progress of all games and experiences. .

What is unclear is whether it will hold existing Activision Blizzard shareholders or under the Microsoft umbrella. The tech giant reached an agreement to acquire both Blizzard and the parents of Call of Duty in early 2022. It’s a roughly $68.7 billion operation pending approval and is subject to investigations by authorities like the UK. Expected to close in mid 2023.

Blizzard has been facing a pretty heavy few months in the releases with its World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Overwatch 2, or Diablo IV expansion.