Everything announced at the BlizzCon 2023 Opening Ceremony

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BlizzCon 2023 opened its doors today, and set the stage for the publisher’s road ahead. From an acquisition to new heroes and expansions, there’s a quite a few things to recap from the BlizzCon 2023 Opening Ceremony.

This year’s ceremony certainly had a big ring of roping old fans back into the fold.But the star of the show was certainly World of Warcraft, which saw the reveal of a Classic Cataclysm and a new structure for its story and expansions moving forward, under the Worldsoul Saga moniker.

Here’s everything Blizzard announced at the BlizzCon 2023 Opening Ceremony.

While the Overwatch 2 hero leaked a little early, Mauga still took center stage for Overwatch 2‘s news. The new hero wields dual chainguns and is playable this weekend.

Though that surprise got a little spoiled, game director Aaron Keller teased a few more reveals. A new game mode, Clash, is coming to Overwatch 2 and sounds like a familiar kind of tug-of-war mode. A competitive rework and two other heroes—Venture and Space Ranger—are being teased too, with more info coming in the “What’s Next” panel for Overwatch 2 this weekend.

The first expansion for Diablo 4 is called Vessel of Hatred, and it arrives sometime in late 2024. Alongside new demons to demolish, there’s also going to be a new class, one completely new to the series. No word yet on class details.

Additionally, Blizzard ran down the list of quality-of-life updates that they’ve issued, and are continuing to patch into, Diablo 4. Season 3 will add leaderboards, and later Season 2 will see an Enchanting preview heading to the Occultist and more Seasonal Events on the way.

Hearthstone‘s next expansion heads to the wild, wild west with Showdown in the Badlands on November 14. It’s got some obvious