Warcraft III Reforged Gets Forsaken Kingdom DLC, Released Same Day
Blizzard is using a same-day release and a free graphics overhaul to pull lapsed Warcraft III players back into the RTS, while the campaign's four-year gap story ties the 2002 game directly to World of Warcraft.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
Blizzard announced Warcraft III: Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom on the BlizzCon 2026 stage and released it the same day. The paid campaign is the first completely new single-player story in 23 years, since 2003's The Frozen Throne. It runs roughly 30 hours, opening with a four-mission prologue, The Last Days of Lordaeron, and follows the birth of the Forsaken and the building of Undercity. Patch 3.0 adds a Definitive Edition graphics mode and a new tavern hero.
The announcement came at BlizzCon 2026, and the release followed immediately. Forsaken Kingdom is a paid campaign that fills the four years between Warcraft III and World of Warcraft, told partly from the perspective of a royal guard as Lordaeron collapses after Prince Arthas returns from Northrend.
Players control new characters including the royal guard Garek, with battles set in the falling Andorhal and Stratholme. The main campaign covers the birth of the Forsaken under Sylvanas Windrunner and the building of Undercity beneath the ruined kingdom. The format is semi-open, recalling The Frozen Throne's Rexxar campaign, with expanded exploration, item management, and hero talent development.
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