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In an interview with Associate Design Director Maria Hamilton, Taliesin & Evitel discuss the challenges of planning a narrative over three expansions in the World Soul Saga, where each expansion is at in terms of development, who Xal'atath really serves, and whether or not Azeroth is really a Titan!

In an interview with Windows Central, Associate Director Maria Hamilton and Executive Producer Holly Longdale discuss new content for solo and casual players coming in The War Within, from the introduction of Delves to their intent to revamp the Brawler's Guild!

World of Warcraft will, in its 20th year of operation, implement an arachnophobia mode. It's been developed for the new War Within expansion, which heavily features the spider-like Nerubian race, but it won't be exclusive to it.

The professions in have changed a lot from expansion to expansion. Now, with the Season of Discovery revitalizing and the option to play on Hardcore servers, the original form of professions has regained relevancy. With the additional threat of permanent death from Hardcore, professions are now crucial to surviving and avoiding the loss of all items and progress.

’s next few years are written in digital stone, with beginning in earnest some time next year. Until then, residents of Azeroth continue onward through the game’s latest expansion, , with its recent content push making an appearance soon after ’s curtains closed.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Warcraft General Manager John Hight and Executive Producer Holly Longdale expanded on their plans to create and release faster World of Warcraft expansions throughout Worldsoul Saga, standing up additional teams to work on two expansions at the same time while another continues to deliver new live content. Check the full interview on Bloomberg

Digital Trends interviewed Warcraft franchise General Manager John Hight and Warcraft Rumble executive producer Vik Saraf about what the future of Warcraft looks like, looking at Disney as a model while crafting an ongoing universe, and supporting the franchise for years to come. Digital Trends Interview with John Hight & Vik Saraf

During BlizzCon 2023, the World of Warcraft team announced that the next few expansions would be releasing at a faster pace than players are used to, highlighted by the fact that the MMO developer showcased the next three expansions on stage. The team's development process to do so apparently is a result of feedback from Shadowlands' glacial pace of content releases, according to the developers in a group interview over the weekend.

Over the near-twenty years that World of Warcraft has been on the market, the topic of a console port has come up again and again, only to never materialize. By now, most fans might have given up on the concept, but Blizzard is actually still keen on the possibility.

It's not a BlizzCon without the inevitable memes — we've rounded up some of the best of the best from Reddit, Twitter, and the rest of the community, and as always have to ask ourselves: What Sword? Blizzcon 2023 Interview with Anne Stickney and Tina Wang Blizzcon 2023 Interview with Maria Hamilton and Kristy Moret

Speaking to Warcraft Wiki representative Kaydeethree, Blizzard representatives have spoken about the upcoming World of Warcraft expansions making up the Worldsoul Saga. In order to speed up the process, they revealed that "Teams have been parallelized, they're already working on Midnight."

BlizzCon 2023 has ended but we have the latest World of Warcraft  news coverage right here.

In a group interview with Associate Design Director Maria Hamilton and Lead World Artist Kristy Moret at BlizzCon 2023, the developers discussed the future of WoW in The War Within expansion including narrative focus, zone design, Warbands, Dynamic Flight, and AI at Blizzard.

During a group interview with Associate Design Director Maria Hamilton and Lead World Artist Kristi Moray at BlizzCon 2023, we've learned that the three expansion Worldsoul Saga is set to conclude before 2030!

BlizzCon 2023 has arrived, and we’ll be updating right here throughout the show with the latest World of Warcraft news and coverage from the event. Tune in today for Day 2 beginning at 10:00 am PDT starting with Guild Clash. Go deeper into The War Within with the Deep Dive panel at 12:00 p.m. PDT.

Yesterday, Chris Metzen (who returned to Blizzard only about a month ago) took the stage at BlizzCon 2023 to announce the Worldsoul Saga, which is set to span the next three World of Warcraft expansions.

During the World of Warcraft®: What’s Next panel at BlizzCon 2023, Cinematic Narrative Director Terran Gregory, Associate Design Director Maria Hamilton, and Associate Game Director Morgan Day dove into an overview of the world, story, and features coming in the next chapter of World of Warcraft—The War Within™.

Blizzard has released a recap of the WoW: What's Next panel, highlighting the world, story, and features coming in World of Warcraft: The War Within!

Game Rant interviewed Associate Design Director Maria Hamilton and Game Designer Laura Spreitzer, discussing the evolution of public events in Dragonflight Patch 10.2! Check out the full interview on Game Rant