This Week in WoW: December 18, 2023

This Week in Business is our weekly recap column, a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry.

It's the first Thursday of the year and NVIDIA wouldn't miss the opportunity to start adding new games to its GeForce NOW cloud library. This week, GFN users will be able to play Embark's debut project, the highly successful first-person shooter game The Finals, in streaming.

Blizzard has released the first This Week in WoW of 2024!

Each week, we'll look ahead to what's in store for World of Warcraft, share the latest news, and keep you in the know byte by byte. New discoveries await in the Dragon Isles when the Seeds of Renewal content update goes live on January 16. 

Happy December, Polygon readers! It’s the last weekend before the Christmas holiday, and we’ve got a whole sack full of exciting new releases on streaming and VOD for you!

Just in time for the holidays, Blizzard has unveiled the 2024 roadmaps for WoW and WoW Classic, laying out what players can expect from the upcoming year in all versions of the MMO.

If you’re looking for new TV this week, you’ll probably want to head to Disney Plus — not officially, but that’s where you’ll find a lot of the big new releases in the lead-up to Christmas Eve this week (and, not for nothing, a lot of the family-friendly content for being home for the holidays too). There you’ll find familiar tentpoles like the MCU’s What If...? season 2 and the new Percy Jackson and the Olympians. But you’ll also find Dragons of Wonderhatch, a new world with a partially animated schtick.

Each week we’ll look ahead to what’s in store for World of Warcraft, share the latest news, and keep you in the know byte by byte. Make Merry throughout Azeroth as the Feast of Winter Veil continues and prepare to enter the Ruby Sanctum in Wrath of the Lich King in the New Year.

This Week in Business is our weekly recap column, a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry.

Tekken 8 will be getting a playable demo on PS5 this week, Bandai Namco has announced. Releasing at 8am GMT on the 14th December — a full week before it's available on Xbox and PC — the demo will include limited versions of Story Mode, Arcade Quest, offline Versus, and Gallery. Still, this sounds like a robust demo, and something that Tekken fans will definitely want to check out.

Blizzard has wrapped up the week with a recap of the Blue Posts!

Blizzard has announced that the Wrath Classic Public Test Realm will be enabled for Ruby Sanctum Testing December 15-21! This will be the final raid encounter for Wrath of the Lich King Classic.