Blizzard Entertainment announced today they’re planning to host the 2012 Battle.net World Championship in Asia towards the end of 2012. Participants battle each other in StarCraft 1v1 and World of Warcraft 3v3 arena matches until the winning teams emerge. In addition, BlizzCon won’t take place this year because they have a busy schedule of upcoming games. Instead, they’ll hold it sometime in 2013.

With the release of the latest content patch, Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft is now free-to-play through level 20. New players can download the WoW Starter Edition free from worldofwarcraft.com. Players will have access to content from The Burning Crusade, including the draenei and blood elf characters. If they wish to continue playing beyond level 20, both the original WoW and The Burning Crusade are available together for $19.99.

Blizzard Entertainment has really shown the good-hearted nature of their company and their customers through an $800,000 donation they made to the Make-A-Wish Foundation on behalf of the World of Warcraft community. The donation was largely made possible due to the Moonkin Hatchling pet that customers had purchased through the popular MMORPG, and was accompanied with a special World Wish Day celebration on April 29th where over ten Make-A-Wish children and their families got to visit the Blizzard campus and enjoy a day of fun and games.

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is “more of the original Starcraft.” You collect resources, build bases, make armies, and fight with them. The graphics are better than the original, and a couple of the units are different, but really, that’s all. And that’s great, because Starcraft was a great game with an engaging story and three interesting factions that were also well-balanced.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. has announced that World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will be released on December 7, 2010. This third expansion for the subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game will be available on DVD-ROM for Macintosh and Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 at a suggested retail price of $39.99 and will also be offered as a digital download from the Blizzard Store. A special Collector’s Edition packed with bonus items will be available exclusively in retail stores for a suggested retail price of $79.99.

World of Warcraft fans have a lot to be excited about, as Wrath of the Lich King will be released on November 13th. This is the third expansion of the extremely popular MMORPG. It’s good news for Mac gamers, since it’s a game we can actually play on our Macs without using Boot Camp or Parallels.

With all the goodies in store for gamers who purchase Wrath of the Lich King, you would imagine that everyone is excited about the upcoming release, right? Not so.

Fans of the Diablo series have finally gotten their wish; Diablo III is under development. Blizzard confirmed this at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational yesterday in Paris, France.

According to Mike Morhaime, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard has wanted to expand the Diablo series for a long time. Mike said, “We know that players for many years [have been waiting for] a return of the series, so we are very excited to share this announcement with all of you here in Paris and the whole world today.”

Dungeon crawling after the break.