World Of Warcraft has shared a roadmap for 2024, including a launch window for the War Within update and details about WOW Classic expansion Cataclysm. READ MORE: Why ‘Dragonflight’ is a homecoming for ‘World Of Warcraft’ fans According to executive producer Holly Longdale, World Of Warcraft’s next big expansion War Within is set to launch late summer/early autumn 2024. Before that, three more content updates are due for Dragonflight. “In these updates, we’ll be wrapping up the story for this expansion and laying the foundation for our next one. Dragonflight season four will revisit Dragonf ..read more

Microsoft has officially completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard today (October 13), following more than a year of negotiations with regulators across the world. READ MORE: ‘Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl’ preview: brutal, but incredibly promising The agreement is the most expensive acquisition in the history of the video games industry, with Microsoft paying £59.4billion ($68.7billion) in cash for Activision Blizzard and the divisions it possesses. These divisions are Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King, Major League Gaming and Activision Blizzard Studios. ‘Call Of ..read more

A replica of World Of Warcraft‘s Frostmourne – the cursed sword that killed Sylvanas Windrunner and doomed her to become a banshee – has been seized in a police raid in Manitoba, Canada. READ MORE: Cosy MMO ‘Palia’ feels like a mash-up of ‘Final Fantasy 14’ and ‘Animal Crossing’ The Norway House Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided a residence on September 6 in the Kinosao Sipi Cree Nation as a result of an investigation into the possession of controlled substances and illegal firearms in the area. Successfully seizing nine firearms and over 130 grams of what was thought to be crack cocaine ..read more

Blizzard Entertainment is raising funds with the help of Mila Kunis to support those in Ukraine through a new pack of companion pets for World of Warcraft.  READ MORE: How the games industry has responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Sunny the golden retriever and Flurky the murloc are the new pets, and are yellow and blue to reflect the colours of the flag of Ukraine. Flurky is carrying a sunflower too, which is the country’s national flower, and this one is compatible with World of Warcraft Classic: Wrath of the Lich King. The Pack is priced at £18 and 100 percent of the proceeds ..read more

A specialist World of Warcraft website has seemed to have stumbled upon a reference to Sylvanas Windrunner in the latest patch for the game. READ MORE: Frankie Ward is an esports icon Via PCGamesN, Wowhead datamined the Dragonflight patch 10.1.7 for the public test region for World of Warcraft and discovered a spell titled “Sylvanas”. There is very little information surrounding the ability, with a work-in-progress cog icon and no description attached to what it might do for the player. Considering there is also the Forsaken Heritage Armor on its way to the game and Sylvanas split the Fors ..read more

Ion Hazzikostas, the game director for World Of Warcraft, has revealed that Dragonflight’s upcoming patch, Embers Of Neltharion, will offer more “solo exploration” for players, and acknowledged it as an area where Blizzard hasn’t “done as well as we should” in the past. READ MORE: The 8 best PC games you need to play in 2023 Speaking to NME, Hazzikostas shared that for the game’s next major patch, Embers Of Neltharion, Blizzard has “absolutely” drawn from players’ feedback on the launch of Dragonflight, World Of Warcraft‘s 2022 expansion. Dragonflight, in turn, was an attempt to offer solo ..read more

Dragonflight patch 10.1 comes to World Of Warcraft next week (May 2), and ahead of its release, developers from Blizzard Entertainment have sat down with NME to discuss how it worked to make the “cowboy mole people” Niffen feel like a natural addition to Azeroth. READ MORE: The 8 best PC games you need to play in 2023 Earlier in the week, Blizzard shared a video detailing everything that fans can expect from patch 10.1. Besides a new raid and an extra zone, the video showcased the introduction of a new race — the subterranean mole-like Niffen — and the return of a snail racing, which first ..read more

Staff at Activision Blizzard have accused the company of losing workers and “creating crisis maps” of what it can release, due to issues with the company’s remote working policy. READ MORE: The 8 best PC games you need to play in 2023 In a series of tweets posted yesterday, World Of Warcraft game producer Adam ‘Glaxigrav’ claimed he has lost “yet another” employee this week. “Blizzard is losing amazing talent because someone in power doesn’t listen to the game directors who make his products,” wrote Adam, who said Blizzard can’t “make better Dragonflights […] If we get rid of everyone who m ..read more

A World Of Warcraft player has managed to hit the level cap on their Monk character before reaching the game’s tutorial zone, in a feat that took them over 200 days. READ MORE: The best co-op games to play with your mates Explaining the achievement, Reddit user Cheatcho (via GamesRadar) shared that they kept their Monk on the boat that’s intended to take new characters to World Of Warcraft‘s tutorial zone, Exile’s Reach. Cheatcho did so by completing five account-wide pet battles each day, though acknowledges that it took “200+ real days” to hit level 70. They added that even going from lev ..read more

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that World Of Warcraft‘s Twitter integration is being removed from the MMO, days after Twitter owner Elon Musk announced plans to put the site’s API behind a paywall.  READ MORE: The best RPGs you can play in 2023 “Over the next two days, we will update World Of Warcraft to remove the integrated Twitter posting feature,” Blizzard announced in a forum post yesterday (February 8). “After this small update, the function to Tweet from in-game will no longer be available, and the settings which store your Twitter credentials will no longer appear.” “This ..read more