2026-09-03T00:00:00Z 0hphttps://0hp.com/ https://0hp.com/launches/feed.xml https://0hp.com/launches/bcc-anniversary-black-temple-arena-season-3/ 2026-09-03T00:00:00Z 2026-08-29T00:00:00Z

Two big group dungeons opened on the Anniversary Edition servers: Black Temple and Mount Hyjal, plus Netherwing dailies, epic gems and a new arena season.

<p>Black Temple, which is a big-group dungeon from an old World of Warcraft expansion, opened on the Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Edition servers on <strong>27 August 2026</strong>. It arrived alongside the Battle for Mount Hyjal, the Netherwing daily quest hub and epic gems. <a href="https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24291476/bcc-anniversary-edition-black-temple-now-live">Blizzard's own notice</a> lists them together under what it calls your journey ahead, and puts Arena Season 3 five days later on <strong>1 September</strong>.</p> <p>The short version for anyone who has never played. Burning Crusade Classic, which is a re-release of the game's first expansion, runs on its own servers so people can play it as it was. Each of Black Temple and Mount Hyjal is a raid, which is the game's word for a dungeon built for a large group. The Caverns of Time, where the second one sits, is the in-game hub that leads to dungeons set in the game's own past. Netherwing is a faction you build standing with to earn a flying mount. And an arena season is a numbered stretch of ranked small-team fighting, with its own gear.</p> <h2>The two raids, side by side</h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th></th> <th>Black Temple</th> <th>Battle for Mount Hyjal</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Level</td> <td>70</td> <td>70</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Location</td> <td>Shadowmoon Valley, Outland</td> <td>Caverns of Time, Tanaris</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bosses</td> <td>9, ending on Illidan Stormrage</td> <td>5, ending on Archimonde</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Reputation</td> <td>Ashtongue Deathsworn</td> <td>Scale of the Sands</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Gate</td> <td>An attunement chain</td> <td>The Vials of Eternity questline</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Extra vendor</td> <td>Okuno, inside the raid</td> <td>Indormi, inside the raid</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>An attunement is a chain of quests you finish before the game lets you in at all. Indormi is the row to note for anyone not raiding: the jewelcrafting designs for the new epic gems sell from inside Mount Hyjal, and the gems themselves come from mining in that raid at 375 skill or as rare drops in Black Temple. Blizzard's notice also says a raid group is not required to enter Mount Hyjal.</p> <h2>Our take: what it means for players</h2> <p>The arena rollover is the part with a deadline on it, and it has already passed for anyone holding points. Season 2 closed the week of 16 August, at 10:00 pm local time the night before each region's reset. Unspent Arena Points, which is the currency earned in ranked small-team matches, turned into Honor Points at ten each. Honor is the older currency, earned from fighting other players out in the world.</p> <p>That is a conversion rather than a refund, and we think it is the wrong way round. Points saved for a Season 3 purchase became honor, which buys a different and older set of gear. Anyone who did the disciplined thing and banked their points for the next tier was paid out in the currency for the last one. The people who spent theirs immediately lost nothing. A rollover that punishes patience is a small unfairness with a real cost, and it was avoidable.</p> <p>The upside of the same rollover is genuinely good, and worth being loud about, because it is the opposite of how a lot of this genre now solves the same problem. Two tiers of player-versus-player gear dropped their gates at once. Season 2 gear now sells at a discount from Area 52 with no rating requirement, and Season 1 gear moved to the Honor vendors in Orgrimmar and Stormwind. For a player arriving late to this phase that is a cheap way back in, and it costs time rather than money. No boost, no bundle, no shop page. A vendor and an afternoon.</p> <p>Netherwing is the long tail and it makes no apology for it. The standing comes from daily quests on Netherwing Ledge. That is a floating outpost in southeastern Shadowmoon Valley, which the notice says needs a flying mount to reach, or a willingness to take a very strategic fall. The six Netherwing Drake colours all need exalted standing, artisan riding, and the Blood Oath of the Netherwing step of the quest chain. Nothing about that chain is fast. That is the point of putting it in beside a raid tier. It is the sort of reward that still means something a year later, precisely because nobody can shortcut it.</p> <p>Credit where it is due: Blizzard's own notice links a community guide for the Netherwing chain, and <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/">Wowhead</a> is where a lot of players will check the steps.</p> <h2>What's next</h2> <p>The anniversary servers have no further dated phase in Blizzard's notice. The next Warcraft date on the record is BlizzCon, which is Blizzard's own convention, on <strong>12 and 13 September</strong>. Its <a href="https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24294375/blizzcon-2026-is-nearly-here-watch-live-earn-rewards-and-more">published running order</a> carries three forward-looking Warcraft sessions, one of them for Hardcore, the mode where a character who dies is gone for good. Both days are on <a href="https://0hp.com/calendar/">the calendar</a> with the day we last checked them.</p> https://0hp.com/launches/dragonwilds-leaves-early-access-15-september/ 2026-09-03T00:00:00Z 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

Jagex dated the full launch to 15 September on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox. What ships with it, and the one platform the press release never mentions.

<p>RuneScape: Dragonwilds, which is Jagex's survival game set in the RuneScape world, leaves early access and launches in full on <strong>15 September 2026</strong>. It arrives on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S at the same time. The date has been set since 5 June, when the studio <a href="https://www.jagex.com/news/runescape-dragonwilds-leaves-early-access-with-full-launch-on-15-september-2026">announced it during the Summer Game Fest Live showcase</a>, and that page still carries it unchanged.</p> <p>Three things from that sentence. Jagex, which is the studio behind RuneScape itself, makes it. Early access is a paid unfinished release players buy into before launch. And a survival game is one about gathering, building and staying alive; this one has skills to level as well.</p> <h2>What changed</h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th></th> <th>Early access</th> <th>1.0, from 15 September</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Platforms</td> <td>PC (Steam)</td> <td>PC (Steam and Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Console release</td> <td>none</td> <td>at the same time as PC</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Headline content</td> <td>the road to the Dragon Queen, most recently update 0.12.1</td> <td>the Scorned Wilderness update, plus all content from the Umbral Sands expansion</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sales, as stated</td> <td>over one million during early access</td> <td>not restated</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>The Dragon Queen, in that table, is the figure the current story builds towards. Jagex calls the Scorned Wilderness an update and Umbral Sands an expansion.</p> <p>Two facts are worth carrying out of that table. The console launch happens at the same time as the PC one, which Jagex calls a first for the game. And 1.0 is not a re-release of what early access already had: the release says it includes the brand-new Scorned Wilderness update alongside all content from the Umbral Sands expansion, which it dates only as &quot;arriving later this Summer&quot;.</p> <h2>Our take: what it means for players</h2> <p>Dragonwilds is not one of the big shared online worlds this site usually covers, and it is not pretending to be. It is an open-world survival and crafting game for one to four players together, set on Ashenfall, which is a continent of Gielinor that RuneScape itself has never used. Gielinor is the world both games are set in. This is the first standalone title in the RuneScape family.</p> <p>That matters if you are reading this as a RuneScape player rather than a survival player. The family is being widened rather than deepened, and the thing shipping in September is a different genre wearing familiar art. Whether that is exciting or annoying depends entirely on which of those two things you turned up for, and we are not going to tell you which.</p> <p>What we will say is that the shape of the release is the right one. A game leaves early access on a named date, at 1.0, for up to four players in a world you can walk around. The press release names no season pass and no shop. In 2026 that is worth noticing rather than assuming.</p> <p>The early access run earns attention. Jagex says the game passed one million sales during early access, which is a great many for a game still being finished. The release describes every update through early access as shaped by player feedback, which is a claim easy to make and hard to check. What is checkable from Jagex's own newsroom is the cadence beside it. Update 0.12.1, expanding the Agility skill, went out on 29 July. The Xbox Game Pass day-one announcement followed on 19 August. That is a team shipping in public in the weeks before a console launch.</p> <p>Credit where it is due: <a href="https://runescape.wiki/">the RuneScape Wiki</a> is where the community has been documenting Ashenfall while the game changed under it.</p> <h2>What we could not confirm</h2> <p>The press release names PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. It does not name Nintendo Switch 2 anywhere, and neither does the wishlist paragraph, which points at the PlayStation and Xbox stores only. Where you see a Switch listing for this launch, it is not coming from Jagex's own release. We have corrected our own <a href="https://0hp.com/releases/">release tracker</a> accordingly, rather than leave a platform on it the publisher has not claimed.</p> <h2>What's next</h2> <p>The Scorned Wilderness update arrives with 1.0 on <strong>15 September</strong>, and the release says all content from Umbral Sands is in it. Jagex has not published a day for Umbral Sands itself, only &quot;later this Summer&quot;, so that one is not on <a href="https://0hp.com/calendar/">the calendar</a>. The launch is, with the day we last checked it against Jagex's own page.</p>