A Warcraft 2 remaster may have just been leaked ahead of a major celebration for the franchise's 30th anniversary, which is due to take place next week.
As spotted by Redditor Neggy5, a new listing on tracking site BlizzTrack, which monitors changes in the backend of the company's Battle.net service, points to the existence of an internal alpha test for something called Warcraft 2: Remastered.
All things considered, it's pretty difficult to imagine that this is anything other than a reworked modern version of the seminal 1995 RTS, which was originally titled Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness.
The listing gives practically nothing away, as you might imagine, but it does potentially confirm the existence of a remaster that may well be announced during next week's celebration.
According to the Redditor who discovered the listing, an upcoming update for the controversial Warcraft 3: Reforged was also discovered on the BlizzTrack website, so it seems that Blizzard's attempts to redeem that ill-received rework also continue, although the nature of said update hasn't been revealed.
It's also worth noting that none of this has officially been confirmed; this could well just be an experimental attempt on Blizzard's part to go through options rather than a confirmation that something concrete is in the works.
Still, the timing of this leak seems pretty serendipitous with the Warcraft anniversary stream due to air next week, so I wouldn't be surprised if a Warcraft 2 announcement was officially made at that point.
The Warcraft anniversary stream airs a few months after Blizzard released World of Warcraft: The War Within, the tenth major expansion for the long-running MMORPG, which launched back in August.
It's also arriving after developers on said MMO formed Blizzard's first wall-to-wall union back in July, which essentially means said union represents the entire studio rather than a single unit within the company.
