MMO event calendar

Blizzard's post of 20 October gives the hours: 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. PDT (5:00 to 9:00 p.m. EDT), 18:00 to 02:00 BST and 19:00 to 03:00 CEST on October 21, and on October 22 8:00 a.m. to noon AEDT, 6:00 to 10:00 a.m. in Seoul and 5:00 to 9:00 a.m. in Taipei. Any player with a WoW account can join, with no active subscription needed. Pick World of Warcraft: Forever Stress Test under In Development in the Battle.net app's Game Version menu. Every Stress Test character and name is deleted when it shuts down, and the beta re-opens.

Jagex's launch post of 20 October 2026 says The Fractured Archive, Old School's fourth raid, unlocks that day at 11:00 UTC, and that any delay would be posted there. A raid is a dungeon built for a group. The post tells anyone who has not finished the While Guthix Sleeps quest to get it done first. The lobby opens as soon as worlds come back online. Players on world 345, the permanent Deadman world, cannot enter on release, and an Ultimate Ironman with items stored at Pete Kayer has to reclaim them first. Mod Ayiza and Mod Kieren host an all-day watch party on the official Twitch channel from 10:45 UTC.

Blizzard's Collector's Edition post, updated 24 September 2026, says Invite-A-Friend Launch Codes will be delivered by email beginning October 20, 2026, PST. A code lets an eligible friend play Forever during launch week. Qualifying purchases include one or more codes; the post says gift purchases are excluded.

Jagex's post of 19 October 2026 says plugins, handy tools created by community developers, have officially arrived in RuneScape, with all plugins from the Open Beta included, and that submissions for new plugins open the same day. New plugins are to follow in batches, around every two weeks alongside game updates.

Blizzard's post of 13 October, "Midnight's 12.1.5 Content Update is Now Live", says the 12.1.5 content update for Midnight, a World of Warcraft expansion, is live. It brings a single-boss raid against Kith'ix, the Labyrinth of Kindo'jan, a nine-chamber gauntlet, the Season 2 mid-season refresh and a new story campaign in Quel'Thalas and Zul'Aman.

The same post says Forever is at PAX Aus from Friday 9 October to Sunday 11 October AEDT, with the beta to play at the booth all weekend, a themed photo spot and a quest card that unlocks a Forever pin, one per person while stocks last. Holly Longdale and Clay Stone sign in the Meet and Greet room from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. AEDT on the Friday.

Blizzard's post of 25 September 2026 says players in the Toronto area can take on an escape room inspired by the Scarlet Monastery, a classic dungeon, from October 8 to 11 at Escape Manor on King Street, Toronto, Ontario. The post links to tickets and gives no price.

Blizzard's post of 28 September 2026 says executive producer Holly Longdale opens PAX Aus 2026 with the Storytime keynote, joined by associate production director Clay Stone for an in-depth look at one of the new dungeons coming in Forever. It streams on the Warcraft Twitch and PAX Twitch channels on 8 October from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. PDT (9:00 to 10:30 p.m. EDT), which is 9 October from 2:00 a.m. BST and from 12:00 p.m. AEDT.

NC's own store page gives 5 October 2026 as the release date, lists the game as free to play, and says PC only, on Unreal Engine 5. It names no launch regions and no second platform, read 2026-09-13, so neither is carried here.

September's Month Ahead post of 3 September 2026 calls RuneFest the biggest in-person RuneScape event of the year and says it will take place on October 3 and 4. The post names no venue and no ticket detail.

Jagex's 3 September announcement says players can tune into its Summit at Runefest on October 3rd to hear about 2027 and the next Saga in Ashenfall's story. The post dates the Summit and no other Runefest day, so this row is the Summit rather than the convention around it.

NC's post of 19 September lists Advanced Access from September 30th to October 4th and the official launch on October 5th, and points players to a Founder's Pack for Advanced Access.

ZeniMax's event preview of 23 September says the High Seas of Tamriel event kicks off on Wednesday, September 30, and will run until October 14.

September's Month Ahead post of 3 September 2026 says Havenhythe Part II launches on September 28, after the remaining weeks of Leagues II: EQUILIBRIUM. The same post names two other September updates: an Engine Update carrying the Vulkan beta, and a Deep Clean update it places in week four without giving a day.

The game director's letter says Update 51 will now launch one week later, on September 28, and names the Nowhere Vault, the Rumors system and player-experience improvements as its contents.

Moved with Vegamor, which update 4.9.0's notes reschedule to the end of September without giving a day.

Ends before maintenance. Began 27 August with revamped rules; rewards tier at 3, 6 and 12 total victories.

Until 10:00 UTC. The Season and Conqueror's Bundles, listed at $69.95 and $119.95 with prices stated to vary by platform and region, each carry 90 days of Premium and the Dragon Hunter Vanity Bundle. A Season Bundle may be upgraded to a Conqueror's Bundle before the offer ends by paying the difference.

Blizzard's WoW Weekly of 25 September 2026 says Brewfest, a returning in-game holiday, runs September 20 to October 6. Brewfest Prize Tokens buy most items at the Brewfest vendor, and this year adds new quests across Quel'Thalas and the Brewfest Banquet outdoor scenario. The post lists the rewards under Midnight, the current expansion.

Jagex's celebration of the 1.0 launch. It starts at 9am Pacific, noon Eastern, 5pm in Britain and 6pm in central Europe, and runs on the RuneScape: Dragonwilds Twitch channel. Thirty-two streamers get six hours to take a brand new character all the way to beating Velgar, the first dragon boss in the game. Every hour the world shifts its rules, so attacks might start hurting teammates or magic might lose its cooldowns. Watching 30 minutes of any stream in the Twitch category earns a Dragonwilds Twitch badge.

In-person attendees only. Blizzard's own wording is no later than 18 September 2026.

At Makuhari Messe, Chiba. Square Enix gives the show dates in Japan time as business days on 17 and 18 September, invitation only, and public days on 19, 20 and 21 September. Its booth is in Hall 3 and its shop in Hall 9. The post names a screen playing the Evercold trailer, a character meet and greet on public days only, and an early release of merchandise.

ZeniMax says the campaign runs until 17 September and lets players earn up to 20 free crates. The page gives the closing date and no start date, so only the close is carried here.

Blizzard's post of 12 September 2026 gives Thursday, September 17 on the official Warcraft Twitch and YouTube channels: 10:00 a.m. PDT for modern World of Warcraft and 10:30 a.m. PDT for Forever, with members of the modern and Forever development teams answering questions gathered on the World of Warcraft forums. The post says a VOD will be available afterwards.

PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2, simultaneously. On PC through Steam, the Jagex Launcher and the Epic Games Store. Day one on Xbox Game Pass, and in the PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium tiers.

ArenaNet's post of 8 September 2026 says the final chapter of Visions of Eternity, called Code of Creation, drops 15 September and sends players into the depths of Castora across six story chapters. This row showed an end-of-September estimate until that post named the day.

Until 09:30 UTC. Regular and Noble drops at twice the usual rate on participating streams.

At the Anaheim Convention Center, across both days. Blizzard's own announcement names the opening ceremony, panels, the Darkmoon Faire, competition and hands-on play, and nothing further.

Sandbox Interactive dates the start to 12 September, 00:00 UTC on the Asia server and 11:00 UTC on Americas and Europe, with Invasion Day the same day. The same post gives 10 October for the mid-season Invasion Day and the start of double scoring, 7 November for the final Invasion Day, and 9 November for the season's end. A Guild Season is the game's two-month competitive cycle.

Blizzard's schedule puts the Mythic Dungeon Invitational grand finals on day one from 12:45 p.m. PDT and the Arena World Championship on day two, with a pre-show at 10:45 a.m. PDT and the first grand-final match at 11:00 a.m. PDT. Streamed on the Warcraft Twitch and YouTube channels. Combined prize pool of $600,000.

Ends before maintenance. +100% sailing and barter experience, double sailor experience from Great Ocean monsters.

Square Enix's event page runs it from Wednesday 9 September at 1:00 a.m. to Monday 19 October at 7:59 a.m. Pacific time, and says times may change. Its prize is the uolon horn, a new mount. The page says a Second Hunt for Astronomy follows at a later date it does not name, and tokens from this First Hunt carry over to it.

Square Enix's all-Worlds maintenance notice puts the downtime from 7 September 11:00 p.m. to 8 September 3:00 a.m. Pacific time, and says the completion time may change. Duty recorder data recorded before the maintenance can no longer be replayed after it.

The last scheduled unlock of Midnight Season 2. Blizzard names the week of 8 September rather than a day, so the range is the week.

The post dates a voluntary open beta on Windows to Monday 7 September and calls it the first step of a staggered rollout, with Android next and OSX/iOS after it, neither dated. It is signed by the RuneTek team and names no studio. Vulkan is switched on from the Graphics Mode setting in the startup options menu; OpenGL stays as the fallback renderer once Vulkan becomes the default.

Free gift in Albion's web shop and native store, until 10:00 UTC.

Ends at 11:59 p.m. in each region. The 30-day free play period from a Starter or Complete Edition registration begins 8 September, and Switch 2 payment registration opens the same day at 3:00 a.m. PDT.

Streamed 14:00 to 19:30 UTC on the official Old School Twitch channel. Four teams of creators, hosted by Soup and J1mmy, with viewers voting on handicaps and sabotages.

Paid ESO Plus members only; trial accounts cannot claim it.

Starts with each region's weekly content reset. Season 2 ended the week of 16 August and unspent Arena Points converted to Honor Points at ten to one.