Blizzard set a date: Phase 3 of Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary lands August 27 with the Black Temple, Mount Hyjal, Epic Gems and Arena Season 3.
The short-spined raccoon that took over the internet now shows up as a mini and a collectible pet across three MMOs. Yes, it's as absurd as it sounds.
Yoshi-P pulled back the curtain on Evercold in Berlin: the dual-shield Bastion tank, two new Realmships, a Final Fantasy VII crossover raid, and a January 2027 launch.
Blizzard has confirmed that Midnight Season 1 is ending soon —no date yet— and with it go achievements, mounts, and titles that will stop being obtainable. Here's what to wrap up before the cutoff.
The next Archboss arrives on July 30 riding her dragon, and the team published a concrete list of Nix region improvements born from player feedback.
The scandal the community had been tracking is over: Blizzard confirmed it fired the employee who used the dev-only *Death Touch* spell to kill bosses in a +23 key, and announced it is actioning the complicit players too.
Albion Online's next major update lands on August 31 with the Ancient Lands, a brand-new raid and the game's first dragon fight: Azaryon.
Dungeons & Dragons Online's eleventh expansion landed alongside Update 81: a new Underdark region, thirteen dungeons, the playable Duergar, five demon lords, and a level cap pushed to 36.
ZeniMax pulled the Crown Store from The Elder Scrolls Online's official site and trimmed its monthly showcase blog. The stated reason is "team bandwidth" — the crew left after July's layoffs simply can't keep up.
Jagex has rolled out the first batch of the Summer Sweep Up: a deep rework of Gauntlet prep, buffs to half a dozen top-tier weapons, and the Maggot King's first Combat Achievements. It also floats — without shipping — a rebalance of Chambers of Xeric loot weightings.
A +23 Nexus-Point Xe'nas run that beat the timer by 14 seconds hid two instakills no player can cast. Blizzard says it's investigating.
Tuning for all 13 classes, rewritten tier sets, The Venomous Abyss in testing and more housing: the Curse of Ula'tek PTR moved half a patch in one week. Here's everything build 68629 left behind.
In its latest development stream, Playable Worlds sketched out the jump from pre-alpha to alpha for Raph Koster's sandbox: a couple more updates and the MMORPG should be ready for Steam Early Access.
Dungeons & Dragons Online's Terror of Demogorgon expansion finally has a date: it descends into the Underdark on July 22 with thirteen quests, a raid, the Duergar race and a level cap bump. Here's everything in it — and what it costs.
The second incremental patch for Update 50 is live on every platform: Werewolf kit tweaks, a week-long item set test in the Vengeance campaign, and a batch of fixes left over from Season One.
Star Trek Online's Season 36 hits PlayStation and Xbox on July 29 with "The Ultimate Klingon" rebuilt from scratch, two Voyager voices back in the cast, and a full rework of Deep Space Encounters.
NetEase's massive-battle MMO launches **Three Kingdoms**, a free DLC with its own server, 60-plus cities, and an anniversary season running on the official servers.
NCsoft has detailed how Aion 2's five-day head start works: dedicated servers for Founder's Pack owners, a local market from day one but no regional auction house yet, and cross-server dungeon queues shared with the launch servers.
Jagex flipped the switch on RuneScape's mid-game rebalance and dated Wyrmscraig, Old School's first player-designed island: it arrives July 29 with a quest, a repeatable boss and the first new Slayer Master in seven years.
Update 4.3.0 adds a new Battlegrounds mode, "Seal Battle: Frostbite Fortress," and starts PvP Regular Season 2.
Joe Burba took over ZeniMax Online Studios just a year ago, and now he's leaving alongside three other senior leaders. Microsoft has already confirmed new leadership.
Patch 7.55 is a couple of weeks away —arriving right after the upcoming fan festival— and Square Enix has already started showing its hand to build the hype.