A recent update to Blizzard’s Battle.net launcher seems to hint that talk at last year’s Blizzcon of tweaking the older Warcraft games to work better on newer computers might actually finally be about to offer up the games in question.

Added into the launcher are a bunch of icons, backgrounds and logos for Warcraft III, currently locked but looking pretty much ready for use. It was mentioned at Blizzcon 2013 that Blizzard had a small team working on updates to help the games run on present day Windows. Currently while it is possible to get Warcraft III and the previous two games to run on a modern computer, there is a lot of fiddling around with settings and tweaking to get it to run properly. There’s also a lack of support for the native resolutions too.

It is currently unknown when Warcraft III will become available through the launcher, and in what form. Just the game, tweaked to enable smooth running without the faff or will there be some TLC applied in the form of HD graphics and some extra content? Blizzcon 2014 is drawing closer so expect to hear something about it there.