14 DAY TRIAL // Blizzard Entertainment has revealed that it’s hosting sessions for Hearthstone, Heroes of the Watch, and Overwatch, at the PAX East convention in March.
The company has stated that gamers will get to see more heroes, exciting new cards, and new battlegrounds, at its booth at PAX East.
The panelists involved in Blizzard’s reveal are Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Game Director Eric Dodds, Heroes of the Storm Game Director Dustin Browder, and Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan, so it’s a pretty star-studded gathering.
The information comes from the event’s schedule, hinting at some upcoming new content reveals for the three games, as Blizzard aims to outline its plans for 2015.
Hearthstone, the collectible card game featuring characters from the popular Warcraft universe, is alive and kicking, doing pretty well, having just been released for Android tablets in December, and getting a healthy infusion of new cards with the Goblins vs Gnomes expansion.
Heroes of the Storm, the company’s own take on the multiplayer online battle arena genre, is currently in closed beta and it’s looking pretty good. There are 34 playable heroes so far, from throughout the Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo universes.
Will Overwatch still be called that?
Overwatch, a team-based first-person shooter, was just unveiled at Blizzcon in November last year, and it’s certainly going to be interesting to see when the company is planning to give players access to the game.
Blizzard has run into some problems regarding its trademark for Overwatch, as there already was a trademark filed for the name prior to Blizzard’s, used by a company that produces a companion app for paintball and airsoft matches.
This means that the video games developer might have to change the name of its upcoming multiplayer shooter, so hopefully the issue will be addressed.
This year’s edition of PAX East takes place in Boston, MA, from March 6 through March 8.
