BlizzCon 2026

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I, I, I should say that World of Warcraft Forever was announced at BlizzCon 2026 about a month ago, along with a new expansion for Warcraft III: Reforged, which is of course a, uh, remake of World of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos that I believe came out in 2002.

So, super old game.

They just gave it a new expansion, which is, uh, you know, kind of interesting, and largely a lot of this ties into an episode that we did a little bit earlier on Witcher 3: Songs of the Past and talking about how there's a lot more AAA developers that are willing to re- revisit their back catalog and make completely new content for these games that had, you know, previously existed for quite some time but not necessarily really received, uh, updates.

yeah

so hopefully this price increase on gta6 will help shift the industry i guess we'll wait and see because but who knows uh this next item is one of the ones that you um we're looking uh forward to having on the episode at blizzcon 2026 announcements this is coming from

good news here man back to form

I mean, this is coming from Amelia Savory at Xbox Wire.

I've been at Blizzard a long time and I've got a bunch of BlizzCons under my belt.

Do you know how hard all these announcements were to hold in as we prepared for BlizzCon 2026? Yeah.

I can't even believe this is real, man.

Like, okay, sorry, I'm locked in.

World of Warcraft Forever's beta is in full swing, and if its popularity is any indication of how the full launch might go, it's going to be big, as Blizzard has had to increase the beta's population cap multiple times.

Forever was Blizzard's big finale during its BlizzCon 2026 opening ceremony, a modified version of WoW Classic that keeps the old-school MMORPG's gameplay and world alive.

but brings plenty of new changes and content as well.

It's something WoW classic players have asked for for years, and Blizzard is finally ready to deliver.

[laughs] But that is all that we had going on in the podcast last week.

Last week we did also have a poll for you guys where we ended up asking the rather simple question of what did you think of BlizzCon 2026 and its announcements? And overwhelmingly, literally nobody voted that they thought it was terrible.

Wow.

With, uh, 35, [laughs] 38% of the vote saying that it was absolutely perfect, which is personally the camp that I kind of fell in.

But anyway, that's what we learned today from the Xbox reset.

Now let's talk very quickly about BlizzCon 2026, which happened last week.

And it's weird, Matt, to me that that happened yesterday.

and then this came after.

Yeah.

Well, there you go.

That is Xbox Reset Part 2 conjoined with BlizzCon 2026.

And that is our headline of the week brought to you by videogame.town. All right.