Blizzcon 2010 Recap

This year’s Blizzcon had some great announcements for Blizzard fans, but it seemed to have catered mostly to Diablo fans. Some of the awesome events that happened during the conference were raiding with Blizzard in World of Warcraft, cosplay, Tenacious D’s music event and many more.

Read (and watch) more about it after the jump!

Some of the key announcements made were as follows:

– Pre-purchasing Cataclysm expansion, much like Starcraft 2 when it was available for online purchase will be available.

– Starcraft 2 to receive some mods from Blizzard: Left 2 Die, StarJeweled, and a DOTA-style mod.

here’s an excerpt from Kotaku regarding the mods:

StarCraft II players will get four officially sanctioned mods for the real-time strategy title created by Blizzard, new map types that turn the sci-fi war game into a Bejeweled-like puzzler, a co-op survival game and a DotA-style multiplayer scenario.

Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime announced at Blizzcon 2010 today that four new mods are coming to Battle.net: Auir Chef (yes, that’s “chef”), Left 2 Die, StarJeweled and Blizzard DotA. Auir Chef combines cooking and killing in a battle for the title of “Executor Chef.” StarJeweled adds gem-matching gameplay to the energy gathering, troop building mechanics of StarCraft II.

Left 2 Die adds a “new co-op take on the StarCraft II campaign mission ‘Outbreak’” and Blizzard DotA — which may actually be known as Blizzard All-Stars — appears to be an outer space spin on the popular WarCraft III mode, Defense of the Ancients.

– Demon Hunter class was announced for Diablo III

Here’s a trailer of the class in action

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKeJn-zfm7s

A gameplay video

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmB140BKPII

– Diablo II now has an Arena mode, which is practically a 3 vs 3 PvP mode. It will have Matchmaking via Battle.net and some really cool features to help you play with friends. It also has a ranking system much like Starcraft 2’s.

Here is the Arena trailer

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvvMk1RJ_zk

More Arena gameplay

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCKtBR91KsY

– Moonkin Hatchling was confirmed as the next World of Warcraft charity pet. The past one (Pandaren Monk) generated over $1.1 million for the Make a Wish Foundation.

– Tenacious D (composed of Jack Black and Kyle Gass) were there for the music segment of the conference.

Here’s a video of their event (AWESOME!)

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0FFwn5wugs

So what did you think of this year’s event? Did they top last year’s? The only thing that we expected them to reveal (which they totally didn’t) was their new MMO project. Sadly that didn’t happen.

Leave us a comment and tell us what you liked, disliked and any opinions. We may cover them in future podcast episodes!