Perhaps giving faith to the theory that the world will finish this year, developer Blizzard will not grip its annual BlizzCon gathering in 2012, it mentioned Wednesday.

The , and publishing house will instead horde an eventuality in Middle East called the 2012 Battle.net World Championship that will horde tournaments for aggressive and players.

“Blizzard gamers and eSports fans from around the world will be invited to attend and declare a few of the many expert pro players on the world fighting it out for money and greatness ,” the firm mentioned on its blog.

BlizzCon has been held any year in Anaheim, California, given 2005. The two-day 2011 gathering drew 26,000 fans and enclosed a large cosplay contest, hands-on gameplay of arriving titles and a contest amid many other activities. Blizzard mentioned the uncover would lapse in 2013.

Blizzard updated that it is “heavily focused” on finishing its arriving Personal Computer games , and .

is approaching to be out this year, even though Blizzard has not nonetheless voiced a let go date is to arriving hack-and-slash RPG.