I’ve been at Blizzard a very long time, and I’ve obtained a bunch of BlizzCons beneath my belt. Do you know how laborious all these bulletins have been to carry in as we ready for BlizzCon 2026? I can’t even imagine that is actual, man, like…okay, sorry, I’m locked in. Whether or not you’re watching it all unfold live or simply catching up later, right here is every little thing from the BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony and the place to go subsequent for every one.
StarCraft Is Again, and It Is Not What You Anticipate
From the farthest reaches of the celebs, a brand new mission calls. StarCraft returns in 2030 as an unique open-world shooter.
There may be actually just one factor to say to that, and we mentioned it from the stage and the halls in Anaheim, California: it’s about rattling time.
Diablo Turns 30, and Sanctuary Falls
Diablo V is coming in Spring 2029, and it opens someplace the collection has by no means allow us to stand: after the loss. Sanctuary has fallen. Diablo has received. The query the sport asks is what we turn into when the world we knew is gone.
Nearer to now, Diablo IV‘s Season of Hell’s Legacy lands September 15 (that’s this Tuesday!) to mark 30 years of Diablo. It brings again the Prime Evils, the Lord of Terror included, together with Deckard Cain, Nightmare Rifts, anniversary rewards, and gear pulled from each period of the collection.
Somewhat additional out, the Amazon joins as the following Diablo IV class within the first half of 2027, javelin in hand. And if you’re on the present or enjoying from dwelling, Moophisto has returned to terrorize the unsuspecting. He’s as udderly malevolent as you keep in mind. Heh.
XBOX gamers can save 75% off Diablo IV and up to 30% on Diablo II: Resurrected content now by means of September 22nd. All the things coming to Sanctuary is on the Diablo website.
Overwatch Turns 10 and Instantly Seems Ahead
Ten years of Overwatch, and the crew spent its anniversary speaking about what comes subsequent. Season 5’s new Assist Hero is Doctrine, a life-draining, vampire-inspired healer who sends out bat-like drones. You may play him at BlizzCon proper now, and from dwelling for a restricted time.
He arrives alongside main reworks for Sombra and Roadhog, plus a brand new map, Watchpoint: Grimsvotn. Season 5 additionally closes out The Reign of Talon, the primary year-long story arc in Overwatch historical past, and it doesn’t finish quietly. The subsequent Overwatch Highlight follows in February 2027 with the crew’s plans for the 12 months.
Two issues value clearing your weekend for: YOASOBI performs BlizzCon’s first-ever halftime present through the Overwatch World Cup, and LE SSERAFIM returns to the Important Stage because the closing act, with a new in-game collaboration live now. Then there’s QuestWatch, a stay Overwatch tabletop RPG one-shot written by Matt Mercer and the Overwatch Narrative crew. For these enjoying on XBOX when you’re streaming at dwelling: play one match to earn a Mythic Voucher and select an eligible Mythic Hero Pores and skin!
More element on all of it lives on the Overwatch website.
Warcraft Goes Backward and Ahead on the Identical Time
We’re on the midpoint of The Worldsoul Saga. World of Warcraft‘s subsequent main replace, Eclipse (12.2), has Xal’atath closing in on Azeroth’s Worldsoul, and the place that goes is as much as us. We additionally obtained a have a look at The Final Titan, the ultimate chapter of the Saga, which brings more than twenty years of Warcraft storytelling to an in depth and units up no matter comes after. More on that early subsequent 12 months.
Then a real shock: for the primary time in over 23 years, there’s a new Warcraft III: Reforged story. The Forsaken Kingdom marketing campaign takes you again to the autumn of Lordaeron and its flip into the Undercity, and it ships with the three.0 replace, which brings a considerable graphics overhaul and a revamped World Editor. It’s playable at the moment. We dropped it like a Beyonce album. Warcraft III: Reforged is available with XBOX Game Pass, so that you solely want to select up the DLC to leap into the brand new marketing campaign
After which we went dwelling. World of Warcraft: Without end is a 3rd option to play alongside Fashionable and Traditional, set within the Vanilla period, with room to discover corners of Azeroth we by no means obtained to see the primary time: three new zones, over 1,000 new quests, 9 new dungeons, two new raids, and the brand new Skyborne race. It launches November 4, 2026, with Beta beginning September 17.
The complete Warcraft rundown is on the Warcraft website.
Hearthstone Opens a Journal and Meets the Outdated Gods
The overhauled Journal pulls each quest, achievement, and occasion into one place, tied collectively by the story of every enlargement. It retains a file of the place you may have been and grows as you retain enjoying.
Reign of the Black Empire hits the Tavern October 20 and takes Hearthstone to the earliest age of Azeroth, lengthy earlier than the Outdated Gods have been imprisoned. Its new key phrase, Assemble, merges two playing cards right into a stronger one, which goes to provide some combos no person deliberate for. Earlier than that, on September 22, Battlegrounds provides a brand new minion kind known as Aberrations, grown out of Outdated God corruption and experimentation.
Wanting additional out, the Monk arrives in March 2027 as the sport’s first new playable class in six years, fluid and adaptable in the way in which the category has at all times been.
A New Hero Enters the Nexus
Xal’atath joins Heroes of the Storm on September 28, playable on the PTR beginning September 14. This one belongs to these of you who by no means stopped enjoying. There might even be one other hero forward? What 12 months is that this?
Tales Past the Video games
An animated collection set on this planet of Diablo is in growth with Netflix. More on that later, and it’s not the one factor taking form.
There Is Nonetheless a Weekend Left
The BlizzCon livestream runs all weekend with deep dives, panels, and a halftime present, and the full schedule is on the BlizzCon site so you may plan what you wish to watch.
If you happen to solely take three dates with you: Diablo IV‘s Season of Hell’s Legacy launches on September 15, World of Warcraft: Without end Beta opens September 17, and Without end itself launches November 4.
Dude, we’re so again.