Ion Hazzikostas

Our own Cory Taylor had the opportunity to have an exclusive chat with World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas at BlizzCon 2023, and he shared some of his thoughts on the upcoming WoW expansion, The War Within -- especially about one of its most promising new features, Warbands.

Ion Hazzikostas took the BlizzCon stage to delve (see what I did there?) deep into the next World of Warcraft expansion, The War Within.

If you were disappointed to find that Dracthyr were limited to the Evoker class, we have some potential good news for you.

This week saw some Torghast changes as the new levels went live and players started hurling themselves face first into the teeth of the Tower of the Damned to discover that, oops, some of the new stuff was pretty hard.

The Shadowlands release date has been re-set -- it's November 23, which is also the 16 year anniversary of World of Warcraft.

For some folks, the upcoming design of Conduits as part of World of Warcraft's next expansion Shadowlands has been a concern, and there's been some debate about if it makes sense if they could be permanently destroyed when removed, the way gems have worked in gear over the years.

A while back we talked about the Maw, which is the intro experience for Shadowlands.

During today's Shadowlands developer update, we learned that the alpha test is essentially close to being finished, and that the beta test will start next week.

If you remember Azerite Armor -- which you should if you're currently playing Battle for Azeroth -- then you'll remember Azerite Reforging.

During an interview on Zoltan's Twitch stream (you can see a text liveblog on Wowhead), World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas said there are no plans to delay Shadowlands due to COVID-19.