After more than a year of covering Orange County’s biggest and best-known developer, we’re ending the Blizzard Blog.

But not because Blizzard Entertainment is no longer worth covering. In fact, when we wrote exclusives about the Irvine game developer, we captured fan attention big time.  We’d like to thank all the fans who checked us out, especially especially the guys at WoW.com for the great linkage.

In the last several months, Tamara Chuang (aka the Gadgetress) and I had personal and professional obligations that  severely limited the time we had to devote to this blog. In the end, our editors decided the topic was best covered from Tamara’s Gadgetress blog, where it began, rather than use the resources required for a separate blog.

So we’re moving all future coverage to a category of Tamara’s main blog at The Gadgetress (here’s a shortcut: gadgetress.com/blizzard). You’ll find a new page with links to older stories, photo slide shows, videos and all good things Blizzard.

There are still plenty of Blizzard-related events that happen – from BlizzCon to the company’s developer-attended game launches. Thanks for following us and reading the coverage that we provided, and we hope to see you all again.

~ Joe Simmons, lead Blizzard blogger

We haven’t closed entries to try out for goody bags yet, but we’re getting close — in fact, we’re closing the contest tonight, Wednesday, at midnight PST.

If you want a BlizzCon goody bag, make sure to register with the Web site and leave a comment on any of BlizzCon coverage. We’ll randomly select winners from anyone that’s said something on the coverage — it’s that simple!

Coverage so far: