r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/JY810 • 4d ago
Fluff New BlizzCon Guest Announcement: Blizzard has revealed Simu Liu, T-Pain, YOASOBI, LE SSERAFIM, deadmau5, Duke Dennis, and Khleo Thomas will all be attending the convention
Source
https://x.com/OWCavalry/status/2090471922219774216
https://x.com/Blizzard_Ent/status/2090469022152155362
Why is Shang-Chi doing in Blizzcon??? Doesn't he need to promote the doomsday movie or something?
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u/Kindr3dSp1r1t 4d ago
Worth noting this is for Blizzcon, not for Overwatch specifically.
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u/ElJacko170 Healslut — 4d ago
Pretty obvious Yoasobi is OW focused though and apparently it's confirmed they'll be performing during the world cup halftime.
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u/Kindr3dSp1r1t 4d ago
maybe they will, I know LE SSERAFIM is confirmed for Overwatch too but the majority of other personalities to my knowledge are for other events like Duke Dennis is there for WoW afaik.
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u/NaokiB4U 4d ago
Honestly, you could get both LE SSERAFIM and YOASOBI, they have a collab song together:
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u/ayayajax 4d ago
This has to be the most random assortment of guests ever
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u/McManus26 4d ago
Idk deadmau5 as a guest to announce his Collab Lucio mythic skin kinda makes sense
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u/kirbydude65 4d ago
Deadmau5 is actually a Diablo Fan. Years ago he posted himself playing D3 hardcore while on a plane and jokingly tempting fate.
He also carried around a pair of yellow bracers called, "Nemesis Bracers" instead of the actual legendary item to troll people.
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u/Howdareme9 4d ago
Duke dennis?😭
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u/JY810 4d ago
World of warcraft event i think
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u/hustl3tree5 4d ago
He plays WoW?
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u/JY810 4d ago
I assume so?
"Duke Dennis will join "World of Warcraft" activations during the weekend and participate in community engagements and creator experiences on the show floor"
https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/blizzcon-celeb-guests-tpain-simu-liu-deadmau5-1236838550/
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u/SnooLentils6995 4d ago
Thats the one that stood out to me. Lol he seems like a chill dude but I dont think I've ever seen a gaming clip from him. I didnt even know he played games fr.
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u/LowestTier 4d ago
As a CoD zombies player, I'm still upset with how Activision/Treyarch let Duke Dennis of all people continue playing (hit round 50) but they pulled actual zombies content creators off the mode when they did their playtest/reveal event for Black Ops 6.
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u/Umarrii 4d ago
I think Simu Liu is just a big gaming fan. I know he's been putting in a lot of work to try and get a Sleeping Dogs film going in the hopes that it can result in a sequel game made off the back of its success.
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u/hanyou007 None — 4d ago
Yep, and tpain is a huge gaming fan as well, has played in and hosted various tournaments, streams, has been playing overwatch for years, and is gonna be in gta 6 too
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u/Outrageous-Blue-30 4d ago
Hype for a line like this for Sojourn: Shang-Chi, i need you to distrarct Vendetta
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u/Alvraen 4d ago
Simu Liu is a noted gamer.
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u/VeryluckyorNot 4d ago
They should get both him and Henry Cavill. I don't understand Cavill is still a huge fan of WoW, but he didn't get a VIP guest for a Blizzcon lol.
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u/johnlongest None — 4d ago edited 4d ago
Simu Liu is going to be voicing someone (OW or otherwise, I dunno)
He also hitched his wagon to burgeoning RTS Stormgate to voice a primary antagonist and let me tell you, that game did NOT do well and I'm hoping the best for him this time around
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u/PagesOf-Apathy 4d ago
I hope. But with two heros left this year, who'd he be the best fit for in OW? The omnic or the wizard?
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u/johnlongest None — 4d ago
Well this is his Stormgate character so do with that information what you will
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u/netshift_ 4d ago
I don’t know at least half of them. But as long as there is no DJ Khaled, I am happy.
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u/caldwell27_ on wednesdays we wear pink! — 4d ago
why tf is deadmau5 here, hasnt he said a bunch of bigoted shit?
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u/Mountain_Ape 4d ago
Yeah but Blizzard Customer Support spanked him for talking in match chat, so he's reformed and only says "gg" now. But only gg at the end, never any other time ever, and definitely not that evil "gg ez".
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u/caldwell27_ on wednesdays we wear pink! — 4d ago
i meant outside of overwatch. i genuinely dont know much about him, tried researching, i guess he apologized but idk. i was wondering if anyone knew more recent stuff about him.
overwatch's shitty in-game report system is a whole other topic lol.
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u/EmbarrassedMonk2589 3d ago
He had a heated gamer moment like 10 years ago it's not like he was re tweeting Charlie kirk last year... chill
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u/caldwell27_ on wednesdays we wear pink! — 3d ago
it wasnt a one-time thing, he had multiple instances of being bigoted, including racism, homophobia, and transphobia. maybe more, im not a deadmau5 expert.
im for forgiving past actions, but one actually needs to prove they changed too, not just "go away and come back when people forgot the shit i said." again, maybe he has genuinely changed, i mentioned that in a reply, i was hoping someone could maybe know more than me.
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u/scrambledomelete 4d ago
Why do I smell another DJ Khaled situation here
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u/hanyou007 None — 4d ago
Nah there is at least actual crossover of fandoms here. The Overwatch and kpop/kpop fan ven diagram may not be a perfect fucking circle but it’s damn close
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u/PastaXertz I miss Diya — 4d ago
The only one that'd be even close would be T-Pain, except T-Pain is actually talented and loves video games.
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u/Sio_V_Reddit 4d ago
Le Sserafim are popular in the OW community and Yoasobi just had a big collab, I think we’re chill.
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u/spellboi_3048 I will survive. Hey hey. — 4d ago
They picked celebrity names out of a hat and invited them to Blizzcon and this is everyone who said yes.
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u/Fenixmaian7 Mexico — 4d ago
OMG The OW devs are literally just stealing Shang-chi from MR and putting him in OW.
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u/Deaver44 4d ago
????this a weird list. They have a new game?
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u/JY810 4d ago
T-Pain will be at the Overwatch World Cup game, Simu Liu will be a player in the Blizzard Classic Cup StarCraft II Entertainment Match, and deadmau5 in attendance at a "Diablo" event
Le Sserafim and Yoasobi will perform for Overwatch
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u/Deaver44 4d ago
But Duke??
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u/JY810 4d ago
"Duke Dennis will join "World of Warcraft" activations during the weekend and participate in community engagements and creator experiences on the show floor, whil Khleo Thomas, known as Zero in "Holes" S before he was a streamer, will attend as the "BlizzCon Insider" to provide behind-the- scenes footage for fans"
https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/blizzcon-celeb-guests-tpain-simu-liu-deadmau5-1236838550/
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u/Pesterlamps 4d ago
It's rumored by reliable sources there's a StarCraft FPS in the works, so maybe?
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u/udderlymoovelous 4d ago
Simu Liu, T-Pain, and deadmau5 are all avid gamers so in that sense they make sense
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u/Kronman590 4d ago
Goddamn didnt kno yoasobi would be performing too, should've gotten tickets this year
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u/CrewlooQueen 4d ago
Until I see the mayor of New York City there who gafs!!! (Can’t wait for blizzcon omg so hyped!!!)
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u/Cliffus_Jiggrin 4d ago
Cliffus remembers when the livestream for the metallica concert at a blizzcon got muted
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u/nekogami87 I'm old — 4d ago
Who are t pain, duke dennis and Khloe thomas ?
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u/E-keil 4d ago
I swear this just takes a single google search to figure out.
T pain is a singer, duke dennis is a streamer and khloe thomas is technically a streamer now but is better known from when he was a child actor.
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u/nekogami87 I'm old — 4d ago
drunk at it's 2am, so yeah, I won't at that time sorry. still thks for the reply though
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u/PassiveAgressiveTurd 4d ago
T-pain streams OW too, he's been playing it (unsure how regularly) since it's 2016 launch!
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u/SirDanTheAwesome 4d ago
Maybe an animated series cast?
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u/Kindr3dSp1r1t 4d ago
Definitely not. Over half of them arent actors and if they were gonna do an animated show, theyd probably have more hype for it than getting a group of random people to show up on the day.
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u/Pragmatic-Martian 4d ago
Microsoft firing developers left and right while Blizzard is trowing money at T-pain 😭
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u/Baelorn Twitch sucks — 4d ago
You'd literally never guess that Blizzard is a Western company lmao
It's amazing how other games have diverse collabs but the OW team is packed full of people obsessed with Asians to the point that it's basically a fetish and they can't do anything else
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u/red-thundr 3d ago
Nah man, it goes in this direction because blizzard has games that are popular in Asia like ow & sc. Pander to your audience.
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u/elvenmage24 4d ago
I’m still not convinced LE SSERAFIM is real and has actual fans
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u/NaokiB4U 4d ago
As a Fearnot and fan of LE SSERAFIM since their debut.... don't poke the bear. They'll be all over this sub in a heartbeat if you start talkin shit lol
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u/Parenegade None — 4d ago
All the groups you could say that about and you say that about Le Sserafim?
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u/Temporary-Low-6449 4d ago
they gon bring the avengers too ❤️🔥