World of Warcraft: Midnight might be the MMO's biggest expansion yet, and it's coming out in March

A screencap of the World of Warcraft: Midnight Gamescom 2025 Opening Night Live cinematic trailer. A dark-haired elf looks toward the viewer, her face covered in a violet hue. — (Image credit: Blizzard Entertainment)

It's a momentous time for World of Warcraft. The next expansion, Midnight, will shift how the game is played for everyone with sweeping changes to the most popular combat mods and the long-awaited introduction of player housing.

This new era for the MMO will begin when Midnight launches on March 2.

Blizzard dropped the release date today, which is also a deadline for the beta that's currently running. Reactions have been mixed on how the developers are simplifying the many classes of WoW to work without needing mods, or addons, to tell you what to do. Game director Ion Hazzikostas made his case for why these changes needed to happen now and promised to be listening carefully to players as the beta continues.

Everything else seems to be going pretty smoothly—well, except the fish that ate everyone's frame rate. Every day I see people coming up with new and clever ways to make skylights and libraries with player housing. And, while it's not all positive, discussion around the story now that Azeroth has been invaded by towering void monsters seems to have everyone curious about how it'll play out.

It's still strange knowing roughly where things are heading from here. Blizzard announced three expansions at once way back at BlizzCon 2023: The War Within, Midnight, and The Last Titan. We know next to nothing about The Last Titan, but will be able to start making educated guesses once Midnight is finally here. Maybe that's when WoW will finally get the dance studio that Blizzard canned 15 years ago.

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Tyler has covered videogames and PC hardware for 15 years. He regularly spends time playing and reporting on games like Diablo 4, Elden Ring, Overwatch 2, and Final Fantasy 14. While his specialty is in action RPGs and MMOs, he's driven to cover all sorts of games whether they're broken, beautiful, or bizarre.

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