BlizzCon 2026 did something rare: it gave Blizzard’s pipeline dates. Between the opening ceremony and the follow-up reveals, the studio’s next four years now have public windows — from a new WoW experience shipping this November to a StarCraft revival dated for 2030. This is the complete, dated ledger.
What this covers: Every Blizzard product with a confirmed or officially implied window, sorted by date — plus the undated projects to watch. Why it matters: Blizzard has historically avoided dating anything far out; a four-year public roadmap is itself the news. Time to read: About 6 minutes.
The dated pipeline
| Window | What ships | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sept 15, 2026 | Diablo IV on Switch 2 (Age of Hatred Collection) + Season of Hell’s Legacy | 30th-anniversary season: Prime Evils, Deckard Cain |
| Sept 28, 2026 | Heroes of the Storm: Xal’atath | First new HotS hero in ~6 years |
| Oct 20, 2026 | Hearthstone: Reign of the Black Empire | New Assemble keyword; Aberrations hit Battlegrounds Sept 22 |
| Nov 4, 2026 | World of Warcraft: Forever | Third WoW experience: 3 new zones, 2 new raids, Skyborne race — beta from Sept 17 |
| H1 2027 | Diablo IV: Amazon class pack | Javelins and bows; four archetypes |
| Feb 2027 | Overwatch Spotlight | The team’s big plans-for-the-year reveal |
| Mar 2027 | Hearthstone: Monk class | First new class in six years |
| 2027 | WoW: Eclipse (12.2) → The Last Titan news | Xal’atath’s Worldsoul endgame; finale info “early next year” |
| 2027 | Diablo V: regular dev updates begin | The 2029 sequel opens its development blog era |
| Spring 2029 | Diablo V | Fallen-Sanctuary sequel; Demon Hunter, Monk, Plague Knight revealed |
| 2030 | StarCraft (open-world shooter) | “Solid” per Dan Hay; Spring 2030 per Blizzard news post |
The undated and in-development
- Netflix Diablo animated series — in development, no date, format, or cast announced.
- WoW: The Last Titan — the Worldsoul Saga finale; first info promised early 2027.
- Heroes of the Storm — Blizzard says “there may be even more to come” beyond Xal’atath; nothing dated.
- Overwatch Season 5 (live now at BlizzCon): Doctrine the vampire Support, Sombra/Roadhog reworks, Watchpoint: Grimsvötn, Reign of Talon’s conclusion.
- Warcraft III Reforged — Forsaken Kingdom campaign shipped already; future content unannounced.
Reading the strategy
Three patterns stand out. Back-catalog as active IP: Forever, Reforged 3.0, and the HotS hero are all investment in things Blizzard already owns — cheap relative to new IP, and aimed at the nostalgia demographic Microsoft’s platform strategy favors. Dating as discipline: StarCraft 2030 and Diablo V 2029 are long-dated public commitments, and leadership explicitly framed the dates as accountability tools. The two-sequel bet: announcing numbered sequels (V, and effectively StarCraft 2’s successor) while both parents (D4, SC: Remastered-era silence) still run — the biggest structural gamble of the list, since it splits audience attention four years out.
The honest read
A roadmap this long will slip somewhere — that’s not cynicism, it’s Blizzard’s own track record (Overwatch 2’s PvE, anyone). The value isn’t the individual dates; it’s that the shape is now public and countable: Blizzard intends to ship something major every year through 2030. Hold them to that cadence — the interesting failures will be the ones that don’t make it.
Next read
- For the headline reveals: Diablo V Announced for Spring 2029 · WoW Forever · StarCraft Returns in 2030
- For the dev-confirmed 2030 posture: StarCraft Shooter Devs Explain the 2030 Date
- For the Blizzard ecosystem that never left: Heroes of the Storm Returning Player Guide