{"id":3485,"date":"2009-02-06T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"blizzard-won-t-be-at-e3-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/3485-blizzard-won-t-be-at-e3-this-year","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard won\u2019t be at E3 this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after Blizzard&rsquo;s merger partner Activision confirmed that it will be attending this year&rsquo;s newly expanded E3 event, the World of Warcraft developers have announced that they will not exhibit at this year&rsquo;s show.<\/p>\n<p>While technically Activision Blizzard is listed to appear at the trade-show, the Blizzard component will not be attending.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard has given no reason or explanation for why it will not be attending the exhibition, simply stating &ldquo;Blizzard Entertainment will not be attending or participating in E3 2009&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not all that surprising, as Blizzard did not exhibit at last year&rsquo;s E3 either, opting instead to host its own event: BlizzCon.<\/p>\n<p>This means no StarCraft II or Diablo III news at the event, which is supposed to be the words most important video game exhibition.&nbsp; There was also the hope that Blizzard might make an announcement regarding its upcoming yet to be announced new MMO (World of Starcraft anybody?)<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard fans will have to wait for BlizzCon later in the year for news on their upcoming titles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/news\/no-blizzard-at-e3-2009\/902\/\" target=\"_self\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOW developers snub E3 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}