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BlizzCon to be televised via DIRECTV pay per view
Blizzard’s annual convention BlizzCon is extremely popular with gamers and getting a ticket is not only expensive, but likely very dificult unless you act quickly. So if you can’t make it to the Anaheim Convention Center, California between October 10-11, or you can’t afford the US$100 entrance fee, there is some good news.
For the first time Blizzard has done a deal that will see BlizzCon televised. The service is being offered through DIRECTV on a pay per view basis, and even though pricing has yet to be announced, they are promising 8 hours per day of HD BlizzCon footage. That means you will get to see pretty much everything regarding World of Warcraft, StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3 announcements and footage. There will also be discussion panels, tournaments and playable versions of future releases to watch.
Steven Roberts, senior vice president at DIRECTV said:
BlizzCon is one of the most highly anticipated gaming conventions of the year, and we are excited to partner with Blizzard Entertainment to deliver coverage of the show to gamers nationwide … With our BlizzCon pay per view package, members of Blizzard’s gaming communities who are not attending the event can now experience it in crystal-clear HD.
Those of you who would prefer to attend can buy tickets from August 11. For the rest of us we will have to wait and see how much the coverage will cost from DIRECTV, but if you take up one of their packages with free months attached you may end up paying nothing extra.
Read more at Blizzard.com, found via Edge-Online.com
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