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WoW: Forever Rogue and Warlock changes: Mutilate, axes, BanesBlizzard's Rogue and Warlock deep dive for WoW: Forever in plain words: one-handed axes, Sap that keeps Stealth, Banes, Mutilate and Wrack.
WoW: Forever Mage and Shaman changes: Frostfire Bolt, totems, Lava BurstBlizzard's Mage and Shaman deep dive for WoW: Forever in plain words: Frostfire Bolt, 60-minute weapon imbues, totem tracking, Lava Burst and Riptide.
WoW: Forever PvP ranks: how Honor, Rank Points and gear workWoW: Forever PvP explained: Honor buys gear, Rank Points climb ranks 1 to 14, every reward by rank, and the 15v15 Darkspear Islands battleground.
RuneScape plugins beta: Quest Helper, Menu Entry Swapper and how to joinRuneScape's plugin beta is live on world 204 with Quest Helper, Menu Entry Swapper and three more. How to join, what each does, and the rules plugins follow.
RuneScape Reignited: announced for 2 December, now under reviewA fresh-start RuneScape character with its own economy and membership, announced for 2 December. Three days on, RuneScape said sorry and is rethinking it.
ESO Crown Store October 2026: Nightfall and Hollowjack crates, and eight in-game drop notesThe dates for the Nightfall and Hollowjack Crown Crates and every new item, and the eight entries whose matching pieces the showcase says can be found in game.
WoW: Forever Hunter and Druid changes: Lone Wolf, Foxes, BerserkBlizzard's first WoW: Forever class deep dive in plain words: Hunter pets, traps and talents, and Druid forms and talents, checked against the beta.
WoW: Forever Priest and Warrior changes: Penance, Victory Rush, RageBlizzard's Priest and Warrior deep dive for WoW: Forever in plain words: Penance, Shadow Word: Death, Victory Rush and new Warrior Rage rules.
World of Warcraft: Forever camping explained: campfire buffs and objectsHow camping works in World of Warcraft: Forever: what a Basic Campfire gives you, the objects players can add, their buffs, and where you learn them.
Will your graphics card work with World of Warcraft: Forever? The cut-offWhich graphics cards World of Warcraft: Forever will and won't support at launch, Blizzard's example cards on each side, and how to check yours in Windows.
World of Warcraft: Forever name reservation: 27 October to 3 November, and how two names workWhen World of Warcraft: Forever name reservation opens, how the two-name system works, what gets a name refused, and how to hide your second name.
World of Warcraft: Forever Skyborne guide: Horde or Alliance, classes and racialsThe Skyborne in World of Warcraft: Forever, side by side: which side gets Shaman, which gets Mage, every racial, the shared classes and where they start.
WoW: Forever Legacy System: can one character reach the 16-point cap?WoW: Forever's Legacy System for one-character players: how points are earned, the 16-point spend cap, our maths on reaching it without an alt, and every perk.
WoW: Forever rulesets: which to pick, and can you play with friendsWoW: Forever swaps realms for four rulesets: what each is, who can group together, the one-side player versus player rule, and Hardcore after launch.
WoW: Forever release date is 4 November, beta starts 17 SeptemberWorld of Warcraft: Forever launches 4 November 2026 at 3:00 p.m. Pacific; the beta runs to 21 October. What the packs add, and the price no post we read gives.
ArenaNet says Guild Wars 2 gets nearly a full year of improvements after Visions of EternityArenaNet named 15 September 2026 for Code of Creation, the final Visions of Eternity chapter, and says it then spends nearly a year improving Guild Wars 2.
ESO Warden rework release date: there isn't one yet, and Templar now jumps ahead of SorcererThe 1 September letter is "not ready to share a release date today". July's 2027 target is the nearest thing, by our reading. Templar precedes Sorcerer now.
FFXIV Moogle Treasure Trove 2026: the First Hunt for Astronomy, from 9 SeptemberThe First Hunt for Astronomy runs from Wednesday 9 September 2026; no date is announced for the second. What the uolon horn needs, and which runs pay nothing.
Bronzeman won a majority in Old School RuneScape and lost anywayJagex's Bronzeman vote won a majority and missed the 70 percent bar the game requires. The studio opened an in-game survey the same day to find out why.
EVE Online is rebuilding the screen you fly by, and you can opt out for a long timeEVE's second design blog splits its central dial apart, adds a minimap and slots for consumables, and promises an opt-in phase before anybody is moved onto it.
EVE Online is moving 2.4 million lines of code off a version that died in 2020EVE has started moving off Python 2.7 onto Python 3. The measured scale: 3,300 lines that stop the build, and 20,000 more that work fine and behave differently.
Amazon is handing two more of its online worlds back to the studios behind themAmazon is transferring Throne and Liberty to FirstSpark Games and NCSOFT in late 2026, and Lost Ark to Smilegate in early 2027. Both announced the same day.
New World goes offline on 31 January 2027, and the shop closed firstThe notice dates the shutdown, the game left sale in January 2026 and its paid currency stopped selling in July. No refunds for that currency.
Jagex says Dragonwilds 1.0 ends one story, not the gameMod Dutch promised a multi-year plan after the 15 September launch: more skills, quests and bosses. Jagex has since dated its Summit at Runefest to 3 October.
Earlier, now past
- RuneFest 2026 is at the Birmingham NEC on 3 and 4 October, and the Chicago show is a different event
- RuneScape Dragonwilds 1.0 price: £24.99 / $29.99, unchanged when early access ends 15 September
- Albion Online's referral pays nothing in September until your friend buys Premium
- ESO Crown Store September 2026: four crate lines, and up to 20 free crates
- BlizzCon 2026 UK time: 18:30 BST Saturday, 18:00 Sunday, and both championship finals after midnight
- FFXIV maintenance schedule, September and October 2026: nine possible nights to 8 October, checked 25 September
- FFXIV on Switch 2 starts charging on 8 September, and the account link is permanent
- Old School RuneScape puts twelve creators in a room and lets chat sabotage them
- Black Desert's Guild League season runs to 23 September
- BlizzCon is back in Anaheim on 12 and 13 September