Blizzard is developing World of Warcraft: Forever, a remaster that builds out the original 2004 Azeroth setting instead of following the game's later expansions. The update adds more than 1,000 new quests, new zones like Mount Hyjal, fresh dungeons and raids, rebalanced classes and items, a new lighting system, and a new playable race called the Skyborne Elves. Lead encounter designer Michael Nuthals is part of the team building the project, which was announced at BlizzCon.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-03
Riot Games announced it will shut down League Classic after Season 3 concludes in early January 2027, citing dwindling player interest. Before then, the studio plans to add windowed queues in regions with long matchmaking waits and continue adding champions through 2026's remaining patches. Riot said it hopes to revive the mode later, likely as a limited-time event with changes based on feedback.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-15
An independent developer built agent-wow, an open-source client for AzerothCore private servers, and used it with OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model to complete every quest in World of Warcraft's Valley of Trials zone in 40 minutes without dying. The AI never saw rendered game visuals, instead reading raw network protocol messages and server quest data to decide its actions via a Python script. The developer says the long-term goal is populating a private server with many such agents to attempt clearing Icecrown Citadel on heroic difficulty.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-03
A developer built an open-source project called agent-wow to test frontier language models inside World of Warcraft, using reasoning rather than game-specific training. Running Codex with GPT-6 Astra (xhigh), the agent created an orc character and completed all starting-zone quests in 40 minutes with zero deaths and minimal issues.
agent-wow.sh
· 2026-10-02
Blizzard unveiled World of Warcraft: Forever at BlizzCon 2026, a permanent Classic+ style version of the original 2004 game launching November 4. The expansion adds over 1,000 quests, nine dungeons, two raids, four new zones, and a new Skyborne elf race, all while keeping the level cap frozen at 60. It joins Modern (Retail) and Classic as a third permanent version of WoW.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-14
Blizzard confirmed at BlizzCon that it's developing a shooter simply titled Starcraft, its first major franchise update since 2016, targeting a 2030 release. The studio also unveiled Diablo 5, set for 2029 to mark the series' 30th anniversary, alongside plans to add the Amazon class to Diablo 4 next year via a class pack.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-12
The piece is a short fiction narrative told by an unnamed narrator recalling his childhood friend Aaron, a brilliant but unfocused classmate who chased fleeting obsessions instead of academics. Years later, after failing to finish school while his friends went to university, Aaron drifts to the margins of the group, working at a local pub where his old friends awkwardly avoid him.
rorz.io
· 2026-08-25
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