Blizzard to delay 'World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' to later this year

Blizzard, a unit of videogame publisher Activision Blizzard Inc, did not
announce a date for the release, but said the parent company does not
expect the delay to have a material impact on its financials for the
year.

The expansion of one of Blizzard’s biggest labels, initially slated for release at October-end, is now in public beta testing.

Activision’s shares have gained about 39% this year as it posted strong
quarterly results after people turned to its other games, including
“Call of Duty” and “Diablo”, to shake off lockdown boredom.

Blizzard will roll out a substantial patch for “World of Warcraft”
players from Oct. 13 onwards, ahead of the “Shadowlands” release.It’s
time for a new World of Warcraft expansion. Call your old WoW buddies,
buy some sodas and get ready to grind, Shadowlands drops later this
week.

There’s not much else coming out this week, as you might expect.
Thanksgiving week tends to be when the year’s big releases have either
come out already or slipped into next year. Though with Cyberpunk 2077,
Immortals, and some big updates to games like GTA Online coming next
month, it seems like we might have a busier December than usual.