In a tweet from the official World of Warcraft Twitter account, details emerged of a Shadowlands-centric Animated Series premiering during Gamescom. Opening Night Live will be showing the animated short August 27th at 2PM ET.
The details were echoed by Geoff Keighley who posted a direct link to Opening Night Live.
Thursday, don't miss the world premieres of Afterlives, a original @warcraft animated series from @blizzard_ent during @gamescom #OpeningNightLive.Thursday at 8 pm CEST / 2 pm ET / 11 am PT at https://t.co/FjoDbKUBkl pic.twitter.com/ZbeT3Ab1LT
— Geoff Keighley ?? Opening Night Live (@geoffkeighley) August 24, 2020
The trailer for Afterlives, the animated short, teased a story heavily drenched in Shadowland lore sure to make fans swoon as they await the release of the next expansion for World of Warcraft.
Prepare to enter the #Shadowlands. Afterlives, an original animated series, premieres this Thursday during #gamescom2020. pic.twitter.com/ETP1gcjCUs
— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) August 24, 2020
Shadowlands is the much-anticipated expansion with an ongoing beta test, that has been updated quite frequently as the release draws near. If you’re wondering how you can prepare for Shadowlands, Robin Baird recently released an article on getting you headed in the right direction.