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.

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.