An inaccessible zone in World of Warcraft: Midnight has players convinced it's a clue for the next update

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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Blizzard is always fighting a quiet war with World of Warcraft dataminers who scoop info out of the game files that they aren’t always supposed to see yet. These days, the discoveries are relatively minor, but they can still hint at future updates that haven’t been announced yet.During the alpha and beta testing period for the Midnight expansion, players found an island that wasn’t accessible by normal means and would kick you out if you stepped foot on it. That area, Atal’Utek, is still around in the final release and more players are starting to realize that there’s something fishy going on with it.Reddit user Aggnicia_MightyGnome calls it the “most obvious ‘next patch zone’ ever” in a recent post that got people talking about Atal’Utek again. People in the comments pointed them toward some datamining that happened several months ago where gear set icons with file names for a “Ulatek” raid were found. Blizzard hasn’t officially announced anything to do with a raid under that name, which is why people speculate that this will be where the first major patch will take place. 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