There is much excitement surrounding BlizzCon, the two-day Blizzard convention featuring Q&A panels, tournaments, and hands-on gameplay! The website has just launched packed with information about the event.

BlizzCon 2008 will take place October 10th to 11th, 2008 at the Anaheim Convention center, located at 800 West Katella Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92802. The hours of operation are 10am to 10pm PST. Tickets will go on sale on August 11, 2008. Buy your tickets right away as they get sold out very quickly!

Panels included are: Diablo III Class Design, Diablo III Game Design, Diablo III Lore and Art, StarCraft II Gameplay, StarCraft Lore, StarCraft II Art, World of Warcraft Class Design, World of Warcraft PvP, World of Warcraft Art, World of Warcraft PvP, World of Warcraft Art, World of Warcraft Dungeons & Raids, World of Warcraft UI and Mods, Blizzard Cinematics, and Blizzard Sound and Music.

Tournaments mentioned on the website include the 2008 Warcraft III and World of Warcraft Arena Tournaments as well as the third BlizzCon StarCraft Invitational where top players of the world are invited to compete. For the StarCraft 2 fans there will be a special Dark Templar community panel where the development team will listen to your opinion on the much loved unit. There will also be multiple contests during the event including the famous costume contest, diorama contest, original song contest, movie contest, motivational poster contest, dance contest, and even a silly joke contest.

The website gives us a sneak peek at a few items that would be included in the BlizzCon goody bag which is notorious for having items that later end up having huge demand, especially on Ebay. The only information we have from the site right now though is that half of the bags will have a 16" inflatable divine shield ball and the other half will have a 48" inflatable Frostmourne. There will also be small Blizzard giveaways such as Diablo health and mana stress balls, pandaren brewmaster bottle openers, zerg creep, and more.

Check out the site here: http://www.blizzard.com/blizzcon/