The next World of Warcraft expansion, Midnight, will be released 2nd March 2026, Blizzard has announced.
This is the second expansion in the Worldsoul Saga trilogy, which began last year with the launch of The War Within, and will conclude, at some point, with The Last Titan.
The Midnight expansion brings several exciting additions to World of Warcraft, the most notable of which is the long-awaited new player housing system, which not only gives you a customisable place to stay, but lets groups of people arrange the locations of their homes into neighbourhoods. “It’s kind of a sociological experiment,” Blizzard has said about housing before.
But there’s some controversy also swirling around the housing system which is related to the new real-money currency Blizzard is introducing to World of Warcraft, with which you will be able to buy furniture and furnishings and other cosmetic items. Hearthsteel, it’s called. We’ll get a better sense of how this currency and housing works when housing early access opens on 2nd December for people who’ve pre-ordered Midnight.
Other expansion features include a new subterranean-themed Alliance race called the Haranir, and a new darkness-themed and damage-dealing Demon Hunter specialisation called the Devourer. Midnight will also take us back to Blood Elf land, to Quel’Thalas and Silvermoon City, which were destroyed before but will be repaired now.
There’s also a new open-world PvE-focused Prey system coming to the game, whereby you can mark yourself as ‘prey’ to enable a hunt-and-be-hunted system that introduces roaming bosses to the world, and in three tiers of difficulty.
