BlizzCon opened with a full slate and a long calendar. StarCraft is back in 2030 as an original open-world shooter. Diablo V is Spring 2029. The setup is Sanctuary already lost. Nearer dates: Diablo IV’s anniversary season on the 15th. WoW Forever beta September 17, launch November 4. A new Warcraft III campaign shipped today. Heroes of the Storm gets Xal’atath on the 28th. A Diablo animated series is in development at Netflix. That’s all they said on it. The stage line was “we’re so back.” Half of this is three and four years away. That’s a show, not a drop. The stuff you can touch soon is a season, a vanilla-era mode, and campaign DLC. The big logos are still on the far side of the decade. Trust the dates. Not the chant.

Warcraft 3 just got its first new campaign in 23 years. It’s live today. Forsaken Kingdom. Last days of Lordaeron. How the Undercity starts. Sylvanas is in it. Blizzard says over 30 hours and that it bridges into the first days of WoW. Price is $30 for the DLC, $50 if you still need the base game. The 3.0 patch rides with it: graphics pass, Forsaken Paladin as a new neutral hero, 24-unit group select, World Editor updates. A paid campaign plus a free patch is the real split. The campaign is the product. The 3.0 work is why anyone still on the old build might boot it. Thirty hours is their number. Not a review. Buy the story if you want the story. Don’t treat the hour count as proof.

Square Enix’s FF7 remake director said the Switch 2 versions started before the hardware even launched. Nintendo showed him the system early. Specs looked hard. He still thought the remake series could fit. Same window, new CEO. Policy was multiplatform wherever they can. He asked for extra platform funding. Both sides were already pointed the same way, so the yes was easy. He says it paid off. Sales on Switch 2 were strong. The Revelation announcement at Summer Game Fest also lifted the first two games and showed up in the year’s results. That’s not nostalgia talk. That’s a hardware pitch meeting a company rule, then a director calling the receipts good. The fate line is for the stage. The policy is why it shipped.