Crank up the volume and watch the concert live with the BlizzCon
Virtual Ticket
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Metallica is coming to BlizzCon®
2014! On November 8, Blizzard Entertainment's two-day Warcraft®,
StarCraft®, and Diablo® community
celebration will culminate with Metallica performing to a sold-out
convention crowd, broadcast worldwide through the BlizzCon
Virtual Ticket.
Metallica is performing live at BlizzCon 2014 on the night of November 8, 2014. (Photo: Business Wire)
"We're thrilled to have Metallica blowing out our speakers at BlizzCon
this year," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard
Entertainment. "After two full days of epic gaming and intense eSports
action, an earth-shaking concert is the perfect sendoff for everyone at
the show and watching from home."
BlizzCon is a celebration of the global player communities surrounding
Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft
game universes. Taking place November 7 and 8 at the Anaheim Convention
Center, this year's show will feature a wide array of activities,
including discussion panels, tournaments, contests, hands-on play time
with the latest Blizzard Entertainment games, and more.
Tickets to the convention are sold out, but viewers at home can join the
excitement by ordering the BlizzCon
Virtual Ticket ($39.99 USD), which offers comprehensive live online
coverage of both days of the event—including the community contests
hosted by Chris Hardwick on Friday evening and Metallica's performance
on Saturday night.
In addition to the BlizzCon
Virtual Ticket, DIRECTV customers in the United States have the
option to watch the show from home by ordering the BlizzCon 2014 Pay Per
View event, priced at $39.99 USD (includes access to the Virtual Ticket
online stream). Visit www.directv.com/blizzcon
for more details.
As BlizzCon draws closer, further details about the show will be
announced at www.blizzcon.com.
With multiple games in development, Blizzard Entertainment has numerous
positions currently available—visit http://jobs.blizzard.com
for more information and to learn how to apply.
About Metallica
Formed in 1981 by drummer Lars Ulrich and guitarist and vocalist James
Hetfield, Metallica have become one of the most influential and
commercially successful rock bands in history, having sold 110 million
albums worldwide and playing to millions of fans the world over. They
have scored several multi-platinum albums, including 1991's Metallica (commonly
referred to as "The Black Album"), which is the best-selling album in
the history of Soundscan, scanning 16 million albums in the United
States alone.
Their latest studio album, Death Magnetic, was certified
platinum just six weeks after it debuted atop the Billboard Top 200
Album chart in October 2008. Death Magnetic charted at #1 in 32
countries and sold five million copies worldwide. Metallica have also
garnered numerous awards and accolades, including nine Grammy Awards,
two American Music Awards, and multiple MTV Video Music Awards, and were
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fameand Museum in 2009.
The band celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2011 with a week's worth of
fan club concerts at the Fillmore Theater in San Francisco, CA. In 2012,
Metallica unveiled a brand new stage in Mexico City that featured iconic
elements that spanned its 30-year career and is featured in the film Metallica
Through the Never. They played eight shows to nearly 180,000 fans at
the Sports Arena in Mexico City.
Picturehouse released Metallica Through the Never in North
America on September 27, 2013. The music-driven, 3D motion picture film
immerses audiences in a bracing, raw, and visceral cinematic experience
with spectacular live performance footage of Metallica's most iconic
songs—created exclusively for film—combined with a bold, narrative story
featuring imagery drawn from the band's trailblazing iconography.
In December 2013, Metallica performed a rare concert in Antarctica where
all attendees listened to the performance through headphones to protect
the environment. With that show, the band made history by becoming the
first act to ever play all seven continents (all within a year), earning
themselves a spot in the 60th Anniversary Edition of the
Guinness Book of World Records. Metallica performed "One" with
Chinese pianist and Grammy Ambassador Lang Lang on the 56th
Annual Grammy Awards on January 26, and two days later Metallica
Through the Never was released on DVD and Blu-Ray. On November 24,
2014, Metallica will release a 10-year anniversary 2-disc Blu-Ray of
their long out-of-print, groundbreaking movie, METALLICA: Some Kind
of Monster. For more information, visit www.metallica.com.
About Blizzard Entertainment
Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft®
and the Warcraft®, StarCraft®,
and Diablo® franchises, Blizzard Entertainment,
Inc. (www.blizzard.com),
a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), is a premier developer
and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating some of
the industry's most critically acclaimed games. Blizzard Entertainment's
track record includes eighteen #1 games* and multiple Game of
the Year awards. The company's online-gaming service, Battle.net, is one
of the largest in the world, with millions of active players.
*Based on internal company records and reports from key distribution
partners.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking
Statements: Information in this press release that involves
Blizzard Entertainment's expectations, plans, intentions or strategies
regarding the future, including statements about BlizzCon and the
BlizzCon Virtual Ticket, are forward-looking statements that are not
facts and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that
could cause Blizzard Entertainment's actual future results to differ
materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements set
forth in this release include unanticipated product delays and other
factors identified in the risk factors sections of Activision Blizzard's
most recent annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent quarterly
reports on Form 10-Q. The forward-looking statements in this release are
based upon information available to Blizzard Entertainment and
Activision Blizzard as of the date of this release, and neither Blizzard
Entertainment nor Activision Blizzard assumes any obligation to update
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Entertainment or Activision Blizzard and are subject to risks,
uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond its control
and may cause actual results to differ materially from current
expectations.
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Blizzard Entertainment
Rob Hilburger
VP, Global Communications
949-242-8404
rhilburger@blizzard.com
or
Emil
Rodriguez
Director, Global Public Relations
949-955-1380 x12064
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