WoW Forever: a new dungeon gets shown at PAX in Melbourne

Blizzard is taking WoW Forever to PAX Aus, which runs from 9 to 11 October at the convention centre in Melbourne. Holly Longdale, the game's executive producer, opens the show as the Storytime speaker, and the talk is billed as her career and the lessons from it rather than as an announcement.

The part worth staying up for comes with her. Clay Stone, associate production director, joins the session for a detailed look at one of the new dungeons in Forever — the design thinking behind it, how it was built and the decisions taken along the way. Blizzard has not said which dungeon it is.

Everything else at the show is for people who are there. The Forever booth runs hands-on sessions with the beta through the weekend, there is a photo setup and a quest-card game called Raid for Riches with prizes, and both Longdale and Stone sit down for an informal signing in the afternoon, between the 2 theatres.

For anyone watching from Europe the timing is the catch: Melbourne runs 9 hours ahead of Central European time in October, so the opening session on the Friday falls in the small hours here. Blizzard has not published a stream time of its own, and whether the dungeon talk is carried live at all has not been confirmed. The beta runs until 21 October, and WoW Forever opens at 23:00 UK time on 4 November, which is midnight on 5 November in Central Europe.