BlizzCon 2017 day one recap

Didn’t get to watch BlizzCon live? Finding yourself overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information pouring out of the convention? Have no fear, we’re here with a recap of all of the convention’s major events today. Below, you’ll find links to all of today’s biggest stories — but keep an eye on the site in the coming days, too. There’s more on the horizon.

Live blogs

While these live blogs aren’t technically live anymore, they’re still available to read. If you weren’t able to catch the panels as they happened, or you don’t have access to the virtual ticket, you can check our live blog archives for a play-by-play of the convention’s major panels. By clicking the play button in the upper right hand corner of the live blog box, it’ll play everything back from the beginning — as if you’ve traveled through time!

• Opening Ceremony
• WoW: What’s Next
• Hearthstone: What’s Next
• Overwatch: What’s Next
• WoW Systems Panel
• Heroes of the Storm: What’s Next
• Blizzard Engineering
• Contests and Community Night (This one is mostly the Blizzard Watch staff riffing on each other for two hours.)

News

• World of Warcraft‘s next expansion is Battle for Azeroth
• 6 new, playable Allied Races coming to Battle for Azeroth
• Patch 7.3.5 brings level scaling to every WoW zone
• Battle for Azeroth squishes players’ item levels and stats
• PVE and PVP servers are now the same thing
• Island Expeditions and Warfronts bring repeatable endgame content to Battle for Azeroth
• Voice chat integration and Communities coming to WoW
• Hearthstone‘s next expansion is Kobolds and Catacombs
• Hanzo and Alexstrasza coming to Heroes of the Storm
• Hands-on with Hanzo and Alexstrasza in Heroes of the Storm
• StarCraft 2 goes free-to-play

Image Galleries

• Cosplay
• Crowds and convention floor
• Opening Ceremony
• Overwatch Blizzard World Map
• WoW: What’s Next
• Heroes of the Storm Hanzo and Alexstrasza
• Hearthstone: What’s Next
• Overwatch: What’s Next
• WoW Gameplay and Systems panel
• Heroes of the Storm: What’s Next
• New Overwatch Hero Moira
• Community Night

Enjoy, and don’t forget to tune in tomorrow! We’ll be covering BlizzCon day 2 all day long — and if you can’t be here to watch it happen live, we’ll have another recap ready and waiting once it’s all over.