Blizzard have officially cancelled upcoming Blizcon 2020 with possible plans for a virtual event to happen next year.

Blizzcon 2020 Officially Cancelled, Virtual Event Most Likely Early 2021

Blizzcon 2020 was meant to take place this year in November, but due the novel coronavirus pandemic has now been cancelled. With recent gaming events being cancelled and turned into online events, this doesn’t come as much of a shock. It was in early April that Blizz had already expressed concerns of hosting a BlizzCon this year.

They are already looking to next year for some kind of virtual event to take place instead, which was shared by BlizzCon executive producer Saralyn Smith in the latest official blog post:

We’re talking about how we might be able to channel the BlizzCon spirit and connect with you in some way online.

As previously mentioned BlizzCon is not the only gaming convention to be cancelled, QuakeCon, Gamescom, E3 and the Tokyo Game Show have all been cancelled.

There have been rumours that there could be a possible Diablo 2 Remaster, which could have been news at BlizzCon. But now with no event happening this year, news may be spread over the course of the year. While this rumour has not been confirmed, we’re still hopeful to hear something. Blizzard are still working on Diablo 4 which was announced at BlizzCon 2019, and have been releasing quarterly updates with new info, the last one being in February. However our current launch window prediction for this one is 2021.

But in the wake of this, replacement events have now popped up including Summer Games Fest which will span over the next few months, with a bunch of announcements to take place. One of their first online reveals was with Epic Games who unveiled the PS5 tech demo and Unreal Engine 5.

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