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"BlizzCon 2012 has been cancelled due to a &amp;quot;jam-packed&amp;quot; development schedule by World of Warcraft publisher Blizzard. In a statement announcing this year&amp;#039;s Battle.net event, it was revealed that BlizzCon, which usually takes place towards the end of each year, has been pushed back until 2013. &amp;quot;Blizzard Entertainment is proud to announce the 2012 Battle.net World Championship, a major global eSports event featuring some of the best pro-gaming competition in the world,&amp;quot; the firm said. &amp;quot;Slated to take place in Asia toward the end of 2012, the Battle.net World Championship will host this year&amp;#039;s StarCraft II and World of Warcraft Arena World Championship tournaments.  &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re also heavily focused on getting Diablo III, Mists of Pandaria, and Heart of the Swarm into players&amp;#039; hands as soon as possible. In light of our jam-packed schedule, we&amp;#039;ve decided to hold the next BlizzCon in 2013.&amp;quot; BlizzCon hosts tournaments and developer panels for Blizzard franchises Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo. At last year&amp;#039;s event, Blizzard confirmed that Diablo III will be free to users who sign up for the new World of Warcraft annual pass, a yearly subscription to the popular MMO. World of Warcraft&amp;#039;s next expansion pack, Mists of Pandaria, was also unveiled at BlizzCon. The add-on will introduce the Pandaren race, Monk class and the continent of Pandaria. Watch the preview trailer for World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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