Blizzard Entertainment: Heroes of the Storm [MOBA]

Blizzard Entertainment is certainly priming the rumor mill today with their recent renaming of their MOBA title from “Blizzard All-Stars” to “Heroes of the Storm”.  With BlizzCON just over three weeks away as of the time of this post it stands to reason that Heroes will be one of the keynote discussion points.  Not much else has been said as of yet, but I assume tidbits of information will be leaked in the weeks to come leading up to BlizzCON on November 8th & 9th.

Blizzard grabbed the Twitter handle as well, so be sure to follow them at @BlizzHeroes and keep tabs on their website for updates as well.

Check out the video Blizzard dropped with the name change below and let me know what you think in the comments section.  Personally, I’m a huge League of Legends fan so Blizzard will need to bring something revolutionary to the table if they want to steal some of my game-time away from Riot.

BlizzCon: There’s An App For That!

Are you planning on attending BlizzCon this weekend and have spent most of your Monday afternoon mapping out the Anaheim Convention Center and your activities?  Well save that graph paper for your next round of D&D my friends, because Blizzard has you covered with their BlizzCon 2011 App available for iPhone, iPod Touch and Android.

Engineered by NVIDIA, Blizzard has provided a solid App that is visually stunning on my Android powered LG G2x (which is powered by the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, so I lucked out there – but I digress . . . . MOVING ON!) as you would expect a Blizzard product to be.

When you first open the App, Blizzard has conveniently listed the events for you by starting time for the entire convention.  If you are only interested in StarCraft or Diablo or World of WarCraft – you can filter the list to show only those you wish to attend.  (Yeah, I doubt that feature will get used much too – but it’s a “nice to have” that I can appreciate.)

Once you have decided what you want to see/do, just click on the event and hit “Add To My Schedule” to build your own custom schedule.  They have even provided you with a map of the convention floor pinned with the events location so all you first-timer’s out there won’t look like such noobs (thankyou, thankyou THANKYOU!).  And, if you are forgetful like me you can even set an Event Alert to keep you on schedule so you don’t miss a thing.

The App is available for download in the Android Market and on iTunes.