Kotaku: blizzcon 2009

BlizzCon 2009: Kotaku Has Landed

Mike Fahey — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:20:00 MDT

Anaheim, California has been invaded by and army of Blizzard fans, and only one man can take pictures of a sign while they mill about.

I have my badge. I have my swag bag. I have a cloudy idea of tomorrow's schedule. I'd say we're all set for BlizzCon 2009! Festivities kick off tomorrow morning with the opening ceremonies at 11:30 Pacific time, which I will be liveblogging, if nothing explodes between now and then. After that, I've got interviews, swag reports, the annual costume contest, and more sexy elf cosplay than you can shake your Staff of Withering at.

That sounded better in my head.

Tomorrow Is Your Last Day To Not Get BlizzCon Tickets

Mike Fahey — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:00:00 MDT

In case you missed out on the first round of BlizzCon 2009 tickets, make sure you make it to the BlizzCon website tomorrow morning to miss out on that batch as well.

Just like the amazing vanishing first batch, the remaining BlizzCon tickets go on sale at 10am Pacific time at BlizzCon.com tomorrow. Hopeful ticket owners will have mere minutes to get their orders in before the entire allotment is sold out, at which point things on eBay will go from insane to completely f***ing ridiculous, and we'll all have a good cry.

Tickets are running $125 a piece this year, and you need to have a valid Battle.Net login to purchase them, so you might want to make sure you've got that all in order right now. Then, when you don't get tickets, you have $125 to $250 just laying around that you were going to spend anyway. Splurge! Treat yourself! You deserve it.

Shocker!!! BlizzCon 2009 Tix Invade eBay

Brian Crecente — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:00:00 MDT

Yesterday, tickets for BlizzCon 2009 sold out in record time, some say even before they officially went on sale. So color me surprised that today eBay is lousy with the tickets.

Prices are all over the place, with the highest buy it now price for a set currently listed at $1,500. The highest bid as of this afternoon for a set was at $910 with four days left to go.

There's obviously an issue with scalpers, but I don't really know how Blizzard can address it other than by really cutting down on the number of ticket you can buy at a time, or greatly expanding the size of the event.

eBay Listings

BlizzCon Exclusive WoW Pet Is A Space Marine, Sort Of

Mike Fahey — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:00:00 MDT

Meet Grunty the Murloc Marine, the StarCraft-flavored exclusive World of Warcraft pet that should be available for ridiculous amounts of money on eBay following this year's BlizzCon.

He's cute. He's cuddly. He's got a gauss rifle. Grunty the Murloc Marine is the premium pet for this year's BlizzCon event, available to those who attend the yearly celebration of all things Blizzard Entertainment in Anaheim this August. As with last year's exclusive polar bear mount, Grunty will also be given to anyone who orders the DIRECTV pay-per-view coverage of the event.

While Blizzard just dropped official word of the new pet, MMO Champion plumbed the depths of the latest public test realm build in order to deliver a little video of Grunty in action.