It’s a big day for 2023 video game convention news. That’s right, Blizzard has said it is looking to bring back its BlizzCon event in 2023.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra said his company wanted “to return to a live event that enables us to celebrate the community” and was “committed to bringing back BlizzCon” next year.
The annual BlizzCon event held in Anaheim has recently been pushed online due to Covid, and was then scrapped completely this year as Blizzard faced various allegations of staff misconduct and a toxic company culture.
BlizzCon was the focus of allegations detailed in the State of California’s lawsuit against Blizzard concerning a hotel suite apparently used by former World of Warcraft senior creative director Alex Afrasiabi and other Blizzard employees over the course of the convention, which was informally dubbed the “Cosby Suite”.