Blizzard announces the BlizzConline opening ceremony

Blizzard announced new details for this year’s BlizzCon replacement, BlizzConline, on Monday, including information about the event’s opening ceremony and several program channels.

BlizzConline’s opening ceremony begins Friday, February 19 at 2:00 p.m. PST / 5:00 p.m. EST. Expect updates to Blizzard games like Diablo 4, Overwatch 2, and World of Warcraft. We may also see some new content for Heroes of the Storm

and a new one Hearth stone Extension as well as some details too Diablo: Immortal.

After the opening ceremony, Blizzard will offer six program channels. For more than three hours, the developers at Blizzard go through their recent and past announcements with fans and sometimes answer questions from the audience.

BlizzConline will return on Saturday, February 20th at 12:00 PM PST / 3:00 PM EST. On the second day there will be more Q&A with Blizzard developers and some competitions like the cosplay exhibitions.

Fans can watch BlizzConline at the BlizzCon website free.

Instead of a virtual ticket to this year’s event, Blizzard released a horde of Blizzard 30th anniversary goodies on Monday. These bundles are available Wow Mounts, pets, Diablo 3 Emblems and wings, Stars ship 2 Emblems, Hearth stone

Card packages and more. Fans can already purchase these bundles, although some items won’t appear until later this month. Console player for Overwatch and Diablo 3 will soon have the chance to purchase “a version of this bundle”.

Blizzard has not released a full BlizzConline schedule. The release of the BlizzCon schedule is always a popular day for speculation as fans try to use secret panels to guess which games the studio might be announcing. Blizzard will announce the schedule before BlizzConline, although no specific date has been given.