World of Warcraft Forever

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Tinker, Bard, Illusionist - Blizzard seemingly surveying World of Warcraft: Forever players about never-before-seen classes to add to the game

World of Warcraft: Forever players claim to have been sent a survey asking whether they'd be interested in a variety of new classes for the upcoming MMO - and some of them are very interesting.

Eurogamer / Connor Makar

Rumour

WoW Forever Beta Player Dies to a Near Perfect Griefing Tactic That I'm Sure Blizzard Will Patch Out

World of Warcraft Forever’s beta marches on, and all evidence points to it being a massive success. But it’s worth remembering this is a beta, and a beta is for reporting issues. Enter one of the best WoW griefing tactics I’ve ever seen.

IGN / Wesley Yin-Poole

Rumour

As World of Warcraft: Forever's beta popularity grows, Blizzard has yet again had to increase the server cap

World of Warcraft: Forever's beta appears to be growing in popularity, as one of Blizzard's leads has revealed the server capacity had to be increased over the weekend.

Eurogamer / Connor Makar

Business

Blizzard Dev Doubles Down on World of Warcraft Forever Being for Classic Players

World of Warcraft Forever has already been massively successful, but it's widened the divide that's always been there between the Retail and Classic versions of the game. And, it seems like some of the folks at Blizzard are standing firm on one side of that line.

IGN / Jacqueline Thomas

Interview

Blizzard Insists Actual Humans Are Reading Through All the WoW Forever Beta Character Names It Banned Players for This Week

Blizzard is banning players who it feels have created highly offensive character names in the World of Warcraft: Forever beta, and warned fans against “testing” the system.

IGN / Wesley Yin-Poole

Culture

World of Warcraft: Forever has recaptured the original MMO's magic, something I thought was impossible

I've had an on-and-off relationship with World of Warcraft ever since I first booted it up in my early teens. I love the size of the world, the joy of exploration, the kick from getting a purple drop from a dungeon at 1am. But more and more, I found myself stepping away from the endless treadmill that is the modern game. World of Warcraft: Classic, however, reunited my enthusiasm, and now Forever has properly dragged me back in.

Eurogamer / Connor Makar

Review

Feature: World of Warcraft: Forever Brings the Largest Visual Leap in the MMO's History

With a corresponding rise to system requirements. World of Warcraft stands as arguably the most successful MMO in gaming history, from its launch in 2004 to the accumulation of 11 (!) expansion packs over more than two decades of active development. That's left the underlying graphics engine a bit long in the tooth, which has finally prompted Blizzard to unveil World of Warcraft: Forever. This new game client pairs classic art and environments with advanced rendering techniques, including ray-t

Digital Foundry

Announcement

World of Warcraft: Forever Is Getting Heavy Rain — Here's How It Looks

World of Warcraft: Forever is currently in beta, but Blizzard plans to update it ahead of the full game’s release. Coming soon: heavy rain.

IGN / Wesley Yin-Poole

Update

Player discovers game-changing pair of pants in World of Warcraft: Forever

The times when a pair of pants prove newsworthy are tragically rare, and when they are it's usually not a good thing. Thankfully, a community discovery in World of Warcraft: Forever has remedied that.

Eurogamer / Connor Makar

Culture

Blizzard Reveals the World of Warcraft Forever Feature 'We Simply Must Hold the Line On'

Ever since Blizzard revealed World of Warcraft: Forever at Blizzcon 2026, the company has been laser-focused on maintaining its Classic+ identity, even if that means not implementing some quality-of-life features the game's retail version has had for years.

IGN / Jacqueline Thomas

Announcement

World of Warcraft fans are torn about whether Forever's Skyborne starting zone fits tonally with Classic WoW

World of Warcraft: Forever's beta is here, offering us our first look at WoW's reimagined vanilla or classic experience, and already it's proving extremely popular. But there are points of contention, one being whether the new Skyborne race's starting zone fits tonally with original-race zones.

Eurogamer / Connor Makar

Preview

World of Warcraft: Forever players are being naughty with the new naming system

World of Warcraft: Forever's beta has proven exceptionally popular, as 'crazy' numbers of players flock to play this new twist on the beloved MMO. And among Forever's new features is a character naming system that has allowed creative players to get naughty.

Eurogamer / Connor Makar

Culture

Blizzard developer says World of Warcraft: Forever's beta numbers are the "craziest" he's seen in 17 years

World of Warcraft: Forever, Blizzard's vanilla-flavoured spin-off built by the WoW Classic team, has already pulled in far more players than the studio expected.

Eurogamer / Vikki Blake

Business

As Fans Flood the World of Warcraft: Forever Beta, Dev Says It's Putting Up 'The Craziest Numbers I've Seen in 17 Years Working at Blizzard'

World of Warcraft: Forever looks like it could be a smash hit after the launch of the beta was overrun with eager fans, surprising even Blizzard itself.

IGN / Wesley Yin-Poole

Business

World Of Warcraft: Forever Appears To Play Amazingly Well On The ROG Xbox Ally X

"Feels like a fever dream". Last Sunday, we mentioned how World of Warcraft: Forever — the new game from Blizzard that's just released in beta form ahead of its November release — was adding native Xbox controller support, and although we haven't tried it for ourselves yet, it seems like this is now the best way to play World of Warcraft on an Xbox device! Windows Central editor Jez Corden has been getting his hands on it over the past 24 hours, and he says the native Xbox controller support mak

Pure Xbox

Preview

World of Warcraft: Forever Beta Launches to Technical Issues, Long Queue Times

On WoW: Forever's beta launch day, the WoW team wrote on Twitter that they were "working through some final issues" The post World of Warcraft: Forever Beta Launches to Technical Issues, Long Queue Times appeared first on This Week in Videogames - TWIV.

This Week in Video Games / Maddie Agne

Release date

BlizzCon 2026 Interview: In World of Warcraft: Forever, Azeroth Is the Main Character and You're Just Living in It

During BlizzCon 2026, we chatted with Associate Production Director Clayton Stone and Lead Software Engineer Ana Resendez about all things surrounding World of Warcraft: Forever.

TechRaptor / Luis Gutierrez

Interview

"What would a WoW 2 give you that World of Warcraft: Forever isn't already giving you?" - Blizzard addresses the MMO elephant in the room

Blizzard's decision to reveal far-away release dates for Diablo 5 (2029) and the new open-world StarCraft shooter (2030) at this year's BlizzCon represented an uncharacteristically transparent look at its future plans. So much so, there was a moment when the spotlight turned on World of Warcraft and it seemed we might get a monumental reveal there too.

Eurogamer / Robert Purchese

Interview

World of Warcraft: Forever Devs Explain Why the Game Makes WoW 2 Unlikely

World of Warcraft: Forever developers Kris Zierhut and Mike Nuthals detail the game's new features and explain why a WoW 2 sequel is unnecessary.

IGN / Michael Peyton

Interview

The World of Warcraft "Classic+" rumours were true and it's called World of Warcraft: Forever

Blizzard has officially confirmed World of Warcraft: Forever, the long-rumoured "Classic+" experience.

Eurogamer / Vikki Blake

Announcement

Blizzard's Big BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony Mic Drop Is World of Warcraft Forever

Blizzard ended its BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony with the announcement of World of Warcraft Forever.

IGN / Wesley Yin-Poole

Announcement