There is only a month and a week to go before a swarm of nerds infest Anaheim, and likely Disneyland. Initially I planned on putting this post up next week, for the nice round month figure, but some BlizzCon news was broke early morning. That makes today's maintenance hours a far more fitting time. According to an Internet sleuth named
SeanbaJuice, comedian Jay Mohr will be MCing BlizzCon for the second year in a row. Blizzard's PR, which is likely still sleeping as of this writing, has yet to answer calls for confirmation. Rob Pardo should have
never given me his cell number.
I've been to numerous game conventions before,
E3,
NYCC,
VGXPO, but never one dedicated to a single company. Oh,
I've tried. When id Software was still the king of FPS (not to mention independent) I almost ventured out to Texas for the
free QuakeCon. Those aspirations were dashed, twice. I wasn't about to let that happen to BlizzCon this year. Since the quasi-annual
conference was announced for 2009 I have been plotting my attendance. I ferreted away large wads of Washingtons for the plane ride, located multiple forms of identification, squirreled away some Lincolns for the tickets, and turned in my change for spend money. Finances in order, I awaited that
faithful day. By the grace of the greater Internet I scored a pair of tickets and officially marked my calendar.
Even if I wasn't a fan of Jay Mohr there is still plenty to get excited about. I won't be partaking in
any of the
contests, original song, fan art, costume, movie, sound-alike, dance or otherwise, but I will take a gander at them, time permitting. Instead I will be focusing my attention on the as-yet-detailed panels for all things Blizzard Entertainment. Being a fan of all of the company's franchises it will be hard to play favorites.
Who am I kidding, the reveal of WoW's third expansion will have be backflipping over
turtle mounts and prancing around
cosplay nutjobs. But we all know the
real reasons I am attending,
Grunty and the rest of the goody bag.
The silent auction may be of interest. Perhaps we should start a donation page to put whatever-it-may-be in PL's studio? Is anyone else getting pumped yet? Tickets ready, bags packed and
Game Fuel acquired? Could
Cataclysm really be the next expansion? Is this going to be anyone else's first BlizzCon. Anyone been to them all so far?
BlizzCon 2009 will be held in the Anaheim Convention Center on August 21 and 22. Tickets are sold out, and
beware of scalpers!
What's this I hear,
Ozzy Osbourne at BlizzCon?!
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