Straight up: this is a datamine, not an announcement. Blizzard has said nothing, there is no trailer, no release window, and no confirmation that whatever this is will ever ship in the form the files suggest. Treat it accordingly.
With that out of the way — dataminer Stiven dug through the files tied to World of Warcraft Classic's 1.60 patch and turned up references to what is being called "World of Warcraft Camelot," apparently with multiple editions attached. The find was picked up and reported by Vice, among others. That is the whole of it right now: strings in a patch, spotted by someone who reads these files for a living.
How much should you read into it?
Datamined text is real in the sense that the files genuinely exist. What it is not is a plan you can trust. "Camelot" reads like an internal codename, and codenames get attached to prototypes, cancelled experiments, and test scaffolding all the time. Multiple "editions" showing up in code could point to a real product with a collector's tier — or it could be placeholder data Blizzard never intends to use publicly.
Stiven has a decent track record with WoW files, which is the main reason this is worth flagging at all rather than dismissing outright. But a good source finding a real string still only gets you to "something with this name exists in a build," not "Blizzard is making a new Camelot game." Those are very different claims, and the gap between them is where most leak stories quietly fall apart.
So: interesting, plausibly the early scent of something, and completely unconfirmed. If Blizzard is cooking a new Classic-flavoured project, a Gamescom or later showcase would be the place it surfaces properly. Until then, this is a rumour, and we'll treat it as one.
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