Mark your calendars—a Blizzard is coming to Southern California! Tickets for BlizzCon^® 2013 will go on sale in two batches on Wednesday, April 24 at 7 p.m. PDT and Saturday, April 27 at 10 a.m. PDT through the official BlizzCon website. In addition, a limited number of tickets to an exclusive pre-BlizzCon Benefit Dinner will go on sale Wednesday, May 1 at 7 p.m. PDT.

We took the wrapper off a little something new today at PAX East. It's called Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, a free-to-play strategy card game for PC and iPad that will be extremely easy to pick up and play . . . and maybe a little hard to put down ;) Check out the press release for today's announcement, and then head over to www.playhearthstone.com to learn more.

Kerrigan has returned, and her brood has begun creeping planet earth. In the wake of a massive midnight launch event spanning thousands of stores across five continents, the global zerg invasion has commenced. Players around the world are now streaming back into the Koprulu sector to start the epic new chapter in the saga of StarCraft II. Check out the press release for all the details, and prepare to join the Swarm.

On March 11, we’ll kick off our global Heart of the Swarm launch party with activities and live stream content leading up to the midnight release. Read the press release for the details, and visit the Heart of the Swarm launch event site to see what’s going down in your neck of the world. We hope you’ll come out and join the party in a couple weeks and help Kerrigan usher in a new era of Swarm dominance.