The winner of all the various contest that Blizzard held at Blizzcon 07 have been announced:

We are happy to announce the winners of the BlizzCon 2007 Contests. With so many great entries, our judges had their work cut out for them, but we managed to find entries that stood out from all the rest. Please congratulate the following winners.

WoW Insider have cataloged absolutely every post they made about Blizzcon. If you want to know everything that went on, then check out their index page.

In the flurry of excitement about BlizzCon that's taken place, I couldn't blame you if you missed a post or two somewhere. But we're here to help! Hopefully, this convenient round-up of our BlizzCon coverage will let you feel like you made the trek out to the convention yourself!

WoW Insider have cataloged the selection of videos that WoW Radio took at Blizzcon and have now made available on their site:

• The opening ceremony
• StarCraft II gameplay footage
• The Wrath of the Lich King panel
• The careers in gaming panel
• The StarCraft II live demo
• The UI panel
• The WoW lore panel
• The Legendary Pictures movie panel
• The professions & items panel
• The raids & dungeons panel
• The StarCraft II lore panel

WoW Insider have made a massive post detailing everything that we learnt from Blizzcon. It's a must read basically to know what's coming up in the game!

From top to bottom, in alphabetical order, here's every single new thing WoW Insider learned (and confirmed-- no speculation here) in Anaheim this weekend. If you have questions or additions, add them below, and I'll either update the list, or answer them to the best of my knowledge. Enjoy.

Once again we camped out near the life-giving sustenance of two 110-volt friends to bring you as close to the action as it happened as possible -- here's a roundup of the sessions we liveblogged today at Blizzcon...

Links to Liveblogs by WoW Insider at Blizzcon are in this post:

Day 1:

• Opening Ceremony
• Wrath of the Lich King live demo session
• WoW Class Panel
• Dungeons and Raids Panel

Day 2:

Are you wondering whether World of Starcraft is in development? WELL IT AINT.

During a StarCraft Lore panel at BlizzCon 2007, Blizzard's Chief Creative Officer Chris Metzen confirmed that the company, at least as of right now, is not developing World of StarCraft. He said the idea of creating an MMO based on their popular RTS franchise has certainly been discussed at Blizzard, but no steps have actually been taken to create the game.
 

Here's the contents of the Blizzcon goodie bags:

• Heroes of Azeroth starter deck ("Do Not Open! Bring to the WoW TCG area for a FREE entry into a Beginners' Starter Tournament.")
• XL World of Warcraft t-shirt (a random
• a monitor hat featuring artwork from all of the Blizzard franchises (it sticks to the top of your monitor)
• an advertisement for a Killer NIC network card
• World of Warcraft sneak peak comic book from Wildstorm Presspins for Blizzard, Starcraft, Warcraft, and Diablo
• coasters featuring Diablo, Starcraft, a Draenei &Blood Elf, and a Murloc
• a little bottle of hand sanatizer in a Blizzard clip (it could go right on your lanyard!)
• a J!NX logo temporary tattoo
• an advertisement for the AT&T Blue Room
• a $5 coupon for J!NX t-shirts
• an advertisement for the Logitech G-series keyboard and mouse
• an advertisement for Zboard
• a Starcraft Colossus magnet
• an advertisement for jobs at Blizzard
• a $50 Nvidia coupon
• a $40 coupon for Creative
• an advertisement for ZipZoomfly.com
• a ticket for a BlizzCon program and map
• a character sheet magnet (with a pop-out center, so you can pull it out and put their own photos in the middle
• a Blizzard lanyard
• a bookmark that presents us with a quest to happen on the convention room floor
• an Alliance souvineer coin
• an epic armor pack for the board game
• a card giving the code for the beta
• an orc pin

Who said that Blizzard wasn't all about making money at Blizzcon... here's the price list of all the merchanside you will be able to buy there.

Here is an overview over some of the cool Blizzard merchandise you'll be able to buy at BlizzCon. Additionally, some of the partners present at BlizzCon will be hosting some special activities you definitely don't want to miss.

Please note: No checks accepted.
No debit cards accepted.
Cash or Credit Card only.
Items are limited quantity

WoW Insider have created a short, concise list of what we can most likely expect to find the expansion on when Blizzard hopefully announce it at Blizzcon.

• Obviously, there's Northrend, which contains 13 distinct regions,
• then there's the South Seas, 5 islands located off the southern coast of the Eastern Kingdoms (and include Zandalar, which I must note already exists in the game) -- on one of these isles you'll find the well-known Goblin city of Undermine,
• then there are a number of other islands located in the Great Sea: Kul'Tiras, Tol Barad, Crestfall, Zul'Dare, Dragon Isle, Balor, and Pandaria,
• the Emerald Dream, which could be as large as Azeroth itself.

Here's another post re Blizzcon,expansions, what's coming. This time posted at IGN, so there's a good chance it could be correct, or at least some of it is...

• That expansion pack is called World of Warcraft: Into the Maelstrom
  
  
• The Maelstrom area of Azeroth will be opened up for play. Will consist of various islands and Undermine will have a new neutral city.
  
  
• The islands will include questing zones, raid dungeons, that city, and a new arena.
  
  
• The level cap is being raised to 80 with the expansion but there will be no new talents.
  
  
• Advancement after level 70 will be through Hero Classes rather than talents. Hero classes will function as subclasses and each existing class will have 3 of these hero classes to choose from. These hero classes will not be limited by talent choices. Players will be able to choose these new subclasses at trainers when ItM goes live.
  
  
• Currently the Priest and Druid hero classes are complete and the Warrior and Mage are close to completion.
  
  
• Hero classes will be demonstrated at BlizzCon

Going to Blizzcon, here's some tips on etiquette there (RP btw).

Meeting other races
Upon meeting a gnome do not assume they would like to be punted across the convention center like a football. Ask them politely, than punt them across the convention center.

Though you may want to be helpful, it is encouraged that you do not bring up the names and numbers of any orthodontist you know to any orc or troll. The protruding fangs are what make them unique.

Night elves are discouraged from dancing. Young children will be attending the convention.

It is impolite to jump upon a tauren’s back and attempt to hold on for 8 sec. as they try
to get you off. The accepted norm is 10 sec.

Upon meeting a blood elf or dwarf it is considered impolite to ask them if they would qualify for the reality show “Intervention.”

It is impolite to refer to any member of the Forsaken as a zombie. Zombies are undead, flesh-eating humans created by George A. Romero. The Forsaken, are undead, flesh-eating humans created by the Lich King.

It is impolite to ask the draenei if they are related to satyrs. That dubious honor belongs
to night elves.

Humans will outnumber all other races at the convention. Only interact with the ones with golden question marks over their heads to go up a level or earn money.

Meeting a Blizz employee
It is impolite to bribe a GM with 20 dollars to take you to GM Island. Pay whatever amount they ask to get the privilege of visiting the island.

When meeting a Dev. ask an original and creative question. For instance, instead of being the 40, 599, 600th person to ask “When you fellas gonna open the instance in SW?”, ask something like, “Why don’t tailors have a recipe to make me a new pair of underwear?”

Miscellaneous
Wait at least a day after the convention to post your swag on any Internet Auction site. That way you can see how much people are truly willing to pay for a code that makes their char. run around in a fish man suit.  

New content, whether it be a new expansion, or simply the Zul'Aman content, will be announced/revealed at Blizzcon.

So I opened up my email Friday evening to an interesting message from the BlizzCon people. The majority of the email was on information I already knew, where to pick up badges, etc. And then I hit the bombshell. They let me know that I will be able to copy my own character over to a test server in order to test new World of Warcraft content. This to me is the first major confirmation of what we already know: that a new expansion will be announced next Friday. Unless, of course, the only new content will be Zul'Aman, in which case Amanda will cry bitter, salty tears into her flat convention soda.