Crank up the volume and watch the concert
live with the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket
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 Fame and 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 any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements believed to be true when made may ultimately prove to be
incorrect. These statements are not guarantees of the future
performance of Blizzard 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 EntertainmentRob HilburgerVP, Global
Communications949-242-8404rhilburger@blizzard.comorEmil
RodriguezDirector, Global Public Relations949-955-1380
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