{"id":14083,"date":"2026-09-12T21:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2026-09-13T00:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:02:54","slug":"blizzards-big-blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-mic-drop-is-world-of-warcraft-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/blizzards-big-blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-mic-drop-is-world-of-warcraft-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard&#8217;s Big BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony Mic Drop Is World of Warcraft Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Blizzard ended its BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony with the announcement of World of Warcraft Forever.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">This \u201cClassic Plus\u201d MMO is developed by the World of Warcraft Classic team, and is set during the first year of World of Warcraft. It features three new zones, several overhauled existing zones, and over 1,000 quests. Elsewhere, there are nine new dungeons and even a new race.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Blizzard showed off a cinematic for World of Warcraft Forever during the Opening Ceremony, confirming a release date for November 4.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"jsx-313219616\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"progressive-image article-image article-image-full-size jsx-1809694635 jsx-2338608387\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/blizzards-big-blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-mic-drop-is-world-of-warcraft-forever.gif\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><figcaption data-cy=\"caption\" class=\"caption jsx-1762799490 jsx-479945570 article-image-caption\">World of Warcraft Forever<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Also at BlizzCon, Blizzard announced the next content update for World of Warcraft: Midnight, called Eclipse. Fans were treated to a cinematic alongside a gameplay trailer, before the teaser fans had hoped for. The Last Titan, the final chapter of the Worldsoul Saga, is coming.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Here&#8217;s everything announced at BlizzCon 2026 for more.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Developing\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<section class=\"author-sign-off\" data-cy=\"author-sign-off\"><span class=\"stack jsx-59817748 jsx-1927875859\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"rounded jsx-444076027 jsx-4218469134 profile-thumb jsx-2141281959 aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-1-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wesley Yin-Poole Avatar\" class=\"progressive-image profile-thumb-img jsx-249361588 jsx-2338608387 expand\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/blizzards-big-blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-mic-drop-is-world-of-warcraft-forever.jpg\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"stack jsx-2509706801 jsx-3630940851\"><span class=\"stack jsx-2959124702 jsx-702910195 author-sign-off-header\">Wesley Yin-Poole<\/p>\n<p>Director, News<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"stack jsx-2509706801 jsx-1220387432\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"interface jsx-1132626198 sign-off-text\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at\u00a0wesley_yinpoole@ign.com\u00a0or confidentially at\u00a0wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/section>\n<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/blizzards-big-blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-mic-drop-is-world-of-warcraft-forever.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/blizzards-big-blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-mic-drop-is-world-of-warcraft-forever.webp\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/blizzards-big-blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-mic-drop-is-world-of-warcraft-forever.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/blizzards-big-blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-mic-drop-is-world-of-warcraft-forever.webp\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-49","tag-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14085,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions\/14085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}