BlizzCon 2010

BlizzCon 2010 was announced on March 25, 2010 and took place at the Anaheim Convention Center on October 22-23, 2010. There were more than 27,000 people who attended.
==Summary==
; Diablo
*Diablo III fifth and final class revealed: Demon hunter.
; StarCraft
*Brand-new mod, Blizzard DOTA revealed
==Activities==
*Discussion panels with Blizzard Entertainment developers
**Art Panel
**Class Panel
**Dungeons and Raids panel
**Quests and Lore Q&A
**Open Q&A
*Hands-on play time with upcoming Blizzard Entertainment games
*Live Raid: Defense of Orgrimmar
*Community contests with great prizes
**The standard Movies, Song, Art, Costumes, and Dance Contests Rules and Applications.
* Live community chats
==Tickets==
*$150.00 USD per ticket (up from BlizzCon 2009, +$25.00 USD)
*$39.95 USD per virtual ticket
**DIRECTV customers could order a Pay-per-view stream for the same price starting October 4, 2010. There was also a promotion that if you signed up for DIRECTV service between July 26 - September 24, 2010, then you would get the Pay-per-view for free. 
**Went on sale on July 26, 2010
* Sold in two batches:
** Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 at 7:00pm Pacific Time (California) (Sold out in ~30 minutes)
** Saturday, June 5th, 2010 at 10:00am Pacific Time (California) (Sold out in ~30 minutes)
* Clarification was given to the purchase window, with Mike Morhaime giving the statistic of a thirty (30) second window in which a person had to have pressed the "Purchase" button to acquire tickets.
==Swag/Goodie Bag==
* BlizzCon badge that grants access to BlizzCon
* Deathy, the malformed Murloc that looks a bit like Deathwing
* StarCraft II Grunty portrait icon
* Dethling maquette figure from Sideshow Collectibles
* BlizzCon themed Authenticator
* Many other contests and pamphlets for vendors
** SteelSeries (Key for chest)
** Brady Games (Quest bookmark)
** Jinx
** Cryptozoic ($5 USD Class Decks)
==Coverage==
* DirectTV is covering BlizzCon via a Pay-Per-View event, and offers a streaming internet video of the same feed.
** Price was $39.95 USD
** Includes both Deathy and the StarCraft II Grunty portrait and unit emblems
* MMO-Champion
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* WoW Insider
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* Wowhead
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==Videos==
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==Movie Contest==
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==Gallery==
Glowei Deathwing.jpg|Warcraft key art
BlizzCon 2010 Diablo key art.jpg|Diablo key art
BlizzCon 2010 StarCraft key art.jpg|StarCraft key art
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