{"id":768739,"date":"2026-09-12T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768739\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:20:10","slug":"world-of-warcraft-forever-sets-release-date-for-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768739\/","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft: Forever Sets Release Date for November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/blizzard-entertainment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blizzard-entertainment\" data-tag=\"blizzard-entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blizzard Entertainment<\/a> will launch \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/world-of-warcraft\/\" id=\"auto-tag_world-of-warcraft\" data-tag=\"world-of-warcraft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World of Warcraft<\/a>: Forever,\u201d a game set during the first year of the original 2004 \u201cWorld of Warcraft,\u201d Nov. 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe \u201cForever\u201d project was revealed as the final announcement during the opening ceremony of BlizzCon 2026 at the Anaheim Convention Center on Saturday, but rumors about the title (colloquially known as \u201cWorld of Warcraft Classic+\u201d among fans speculating online) have been swirling for weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBlizzard\u2019s \u201cWarcraft\u201d chief Holly Longdale said that developers intend for the world of the game to be a main character in \u201cForever\u201d and noted that in this new MMO it\u2019s \u201cthe journey that counts, not the destination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAt launch,\u201d World of Warcraft: Forever\u201d will include three new zones, over 1,000 new quests, nine new dungeons, two new raids and a new Skyborne race. The game will have a skill level cap of 60.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAdditionally, the \u201cWarcraft\u201d team announced a new campaign for \u201cWarcraft 3,\u201d the first in more than two decades, which launches today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBlizzCon\u2019s opening ceremony also included announcements about a new \u201cStarCraft\u201d game coming in 2030, \u201cDiablo V\u201d releasing in 2029 and a \u201cDiablo\u201d animated TV series in the works at Netflix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tVariety\u00a0will be on the ground at BlizzCon Sept. 12-13 and readers can follow along\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/blizzcon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0for our coverage of the event, a celebration of all things Blizzard Entertainment, from \u201cStarCraft\u201d to \u201cDiablo\u201d to \u201cWorld of Warcraft\u201d to \u201cOverwatch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the \u201cWorld of Warcraft: Forever\u201d trailer via the video below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blizzard Entertainment will launch \u201cWorld of Warcraft: Forever,\u201d a game set during the first year of the original&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18808,18805,59,86,56,54,55,65600],"class_list":["post-768739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-blizzard-entertainment","tag-blizzcon","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}