Here's when World of Warcraft: Legion will unlock in your region

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Only a few hours to go.

The reason behind all those sick days tomorrow is that World of Warcraft: Legion is launching late tonight/very early tomorrow morning/late tomorrow afternoon. The time depends on what part of the world you live in, obviously, and now Blizzard has detailed exactly when WoW's latest expansion will be going live.

Here's when you'll want to be sat primed by your keyboard, ready to embark upon an expansion that makes some pretty big changes to WoW's core:

EU:

BST: 11pm August 29

CET: 12am August 30

NA:

EDT: 3am August 30

CDT: 2am August 30

MDT: 1am August 30

PDT: 12am August 30

AUS:

AEST: 5pm August 30

If you've not been following Legion news, make sure you click on the above link, and check out Richard Cobbett's summary of how WoW is finally heading towards its endgame.

Ta, PCGamesN.

Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes

Tom loves exploring in games, whether it’s going the wrong way in a platformer or burgling an apartment in Deus Ex. His favourite game worlds—Stalker, Dark Souls, Thief—have an atmosphere you could wallop with a blackjack. He enjoys horror, adventure, puzzle games and RPGs, and played the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VIII with a translated script he printed off from the internet. Tom has been writing about free games for PC Gamer since 2012. If he were packing for a desert island, he’d take his giant Columbo boxset and a laptop stuffed with PuzzleScript games.

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