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Well, we've seen the big official leak as someone at Blizzard "accidentally" shared the press kit too early and we found out about 9.1 and Burning Crusade Classic, but there are a few more interesting rumors and leaks we should take a look at.

First off is a pretty credible source, as they called the Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 announcements before previous BlizzCons:

Nothing too earh-shattering there, but it all seems very plausible and likely to happen.

Then there's another one that's been floating around for a while, which is just as likely to be a simple photoshop as an official document, but the info in it is also pretty likely very much correct:

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The delayed release of the server groups with brand new Classics starting up with each cycle was also confirmed in the official leak, so the above does seem to be correct, even if it turns out to not be the real deal.

And then there's this, which doesn't seem to have any particular source or credibility, so it's just speculation, but with an interesting take with the final point:

It's mostly a roundup of the old and new leaks with some personal additions, and they missed the mark a little on the number of bosses in the Maw raid. It also seems a little unlikely that we'll get tier sets back this soon (but we're hoping!), but that last one is definitely something to be hyped about, despite still most likely being pure speculation/imagination. Opening the WoW BlizzConline section with a cinematic like that would definitely go over well, but it's extremely unlikely to happen, at least as is written above, due to the word bitch already being removed from the game when Garrosh said it to Sylvanas.

Here are a few more images for the official leak as well, with new Covenant armors and a look at the new in-Maw zone, courtesy of MMOChampion:

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3 minutes ago, gerbercage said:

nothing about heroes of the storm?

There will definitely be something, just hasn't been leaked 😄

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25 minutes ago, gerbercage said:

nothing about heroes of the storm?

Everybody from the team is leaving it for other projects. So i wouldn't be surprised if at some point Activision would announce it's shutdown.

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8 hours ago, Steveson said:

Everybody from the team is leaving it for other projects. So i wouldn't be surprised if at some point Activision would announce it's shutdown.

There is still a team, albeit smaller one (they are even quite active on reddit from what I saw). So far they haven't shutdown any of their games, so I doubt that would happen. Starcraft 2 isn't getting any new content anymore, yet it's servers remain active. Even their older games are still operational. But not much in terms of content for HotS is happening, though it seems they have some skins and heroes planned at least (some anniversary skins were datamined).

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