Blizzard finally said it out loud at BlizzCon 2026: the thing the WoW Classic community has been arguing about and demanding for years now has a name (World of Warcraft: Forever), a (very close) release date, and more content than most fans reasonably expected. World of Warcraft: Forever launches on November 4, 2026, for PC and Mac, and access is included with any active World of Warcraft subscription or game time, but the beta opens next Thursday, with Skyborne Edition and Warcraft Forever collection buyers getting in from September 17. Crucially, Blizzard is positioning this as a third permanent World […]

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Blizzard has shared a new roadmap for World of Warcraft: Midnight, outlining the final updates for the expansion and giving us a clearer idea of when to expect the reveal of The Last Titan, the concluding chapter of the Worldsoul Saga.

The next phase begins with Echoes of the Worldcore, an update focused on new story quests and seasonal events. That will be followed by Midnight: Eclipse in the winter, a major patch that introduces a new zone called The Mantle Vault, a new dungeon, a new lair, fresh delves and a new raid. The update also brings a new legendary caster weapon, additional paladin options for Forsaken, Night Elf and Troll characters, and further improvements to housing.

Midnight: Eclipse will lead directly into Season 3, which continues the storyline and sets the stage for the next expansion.

In 2027, Blizzard will move into the final act of the Worldsoul Saga. The Last Titan will be revealed in the spring, marking the third and final expansion in the trilogy that began with The War Within back in 2024. Based on Blizzard’s established cadence, a spring reveal would typically point to an early 2028 release window, keeping the two‑year cycle intact.

KitGuru Says: Have you been keeping up with the WoW: Midnight updates this year? Are you going to be returning for The Last Titan? 

Blizzard has announced World of Warcraft: Forever, a new project developed by the Classic team that revisits the original level‑60 era of WoW. Unlike WoW Classic, which preserves the vanilla experience as it was, Forever introduces new zones, quests and features set within that first year of the game.

World of Warcraft: Forever brings new content to the original timeline. Players will explore Dalaran, alongside other new zones to be confirmed later on. Zones already present in vanilla WoW have been reworked to support new story content as well. A new playable race, the Skyborne Elves, will also join the game in WoW: Forever.

Alongside the new race and zones, Forever includes two raids, nine dungeons and more than 1000 quests, reinforcing the idea that this is Vanilla WoW Extended, rather than just a snapshot of the game as it was.

World of Warcraft: Forever arrives on the 4th of November. BlizzCon attendees can try it early, and a public beta will roll out next week for those unable to be there this weekend.

KitGuru Says: WoW Classic has always been about preservation, but Forever takes a different approach by expanding that era with new content. Are you looking forward to this? Or will you be sticking with Retail / Classic in their current forms? 

Despite being one of Blizzard’s biggest IPs, Diablo as a franchise has had relatively few mainline entries, with ‘just’ 4 titles in total being released over the past 30 years. That said, things appear to be shifting behind the scenes, with one insider claiming that Blizzard “wants the waiting time between tentpole Diablo launches to be shorter.”

As reported by known Microsoft / Xbox insider Jez Corden via Windows Central, Blizzard are hoping to capitalise more greatly on the Diablo IP, with the leaker claiming to have heard that they want “the waiting time between tentpole Diablo launches to be shorter, although it's probably still too early for a reveal of Diablo 5.”

As mentioned, the Diablo series has been relatively reserved when it comes to pumping out new releases, with 2023’s Diablo IV launching an entire decade and then some following Diablo III. Likewise, Diablo III arrived 12 years after II.

Of course, in between each release fans were kept satiated with new expansions / DLC. Though this practice is set to still continue (with Diablo IV having already received 2 major expansions), it appears as though we might not have to wait until 2034 for the next mainline entry – for better or for worse.

KitGuru says: 3 years on, how are you feeling about Diablo IV? Would you welcome more sequels at a faster rate, or do you prefer the roughly 1 game per decade schedule? Let us know down below.

A storm passed through many internal Xbox studios between studio divestitures and mass layoffs, but Activision Blizzard largely emerged unscathed this time around, likely because it's the main money-maker at present. We know that Call of Duty prints money even in off years, for example. But even the Blizzard side has been doing well lately, thanks to a resurgence of its core IPs: Overwatch, Warcraft, and Diablo. That's what Bloomberg's Jason Schreier confirmed in his latest video, while teasing that the company has "a ton" of projects underway, including the rumored StarCraft shooter game. So right now, Blizzard is kind […]

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With exactly a week left before the official launch of World of Warcraft: Midnight, here's a semi-exclusive interview with Blizzard where four members of the development team open up on the key areas of the game's eleventh expansion, such as dungeons, raids, delves, the Zul'aman zone, and the new Prey system. I said semi-exclusive because I shared the remote interview session with Carrie Lambertsen from Screen Rant, so you'll see her name pop up as well throughout the transcript when she was the one asking questions. The following Blizzard developers were involved: Associate Game Director Paul Kubit, Lead Encounter Designer […]

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