Posts with tag wow-next-expansion

Blizzard Entertainment has announced World of Warcraft's fifth expansion, Warlords of Draenor. The expansion will bring players to Draenor, the original homeworld of the Orcs. The expansion leads players to familiar and new locations seen in WoW's first expansion, The Burning Crusade.

Highlights of Warlords of Draenor include:

• Build and upgrade your own garrison
• New character models
• New PvP zones
• Level cap raised to 100
• Boost one character to level 90 and play immediately

More on the expansion as the day continues. Expect lots of updates as we cover BlizzCon 2013.

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Fresh off the Twitter-sphere today is news that the next expansion will be "awesome." What kind of awesome? Well, the kind of awesome that Rob Pardo (Chief Creative Officer at Blizzard) delivers. And no matter what, awesome is better than Pardo announcing the next expansion will be terrible. So there's that at least...

Its been pretty fun getting deeply involving with WOW again. The next expansion is going to be awesome :)

- Rob Pardo (@Rob_Pardo) October 26, 2012

All jokes aside, it is notable that Pardo is tweeting his involvement in this, even though he's always had his hand in WoW's expansions. Pardo does go on to say as well:

@officrnasty Oh don't worry... we will go plenty slow lol. This is Blizzard after all :)

- Rob Pardo (@Rob_Pardo) October 26, 2012

Pardo's announcement would have been a little bit cooler if he said it in Yoda-style.

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Mists of Pandaria is here! The level cap has been raised to 90, many players have returned to Azeroth, and pet battles are taking the world by storm. Keep an eye out for all of the latest news, and check out our comprehensive guide to Mists of Pandaria for everything you'll ever need to know.

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Every week, just at the start of the weekend, we catch up with the WoW Insider staff and ask them, "What are you playing this week?" -- otherwise known as WRUP. Join us to see what we're up to in and out of game, and catch us in the comments to let us know what you're playing, too!

In case you haven't heard already, just this past week, Blizzard registered a trademark for Mists of Pandaria. And what, you may ask, is Mists of Pandaria?

... what? Don't look at me. I don't know.

Could Mists of Pandaria be the next expansion for World of Warcraft? There's plenty of evidence that this is the case -- Blizzard filed the same kind of trademark for Cataclysm shortly before its official announcement. Thing is, though, Mists of Pandaria could be so many things other than an expansion, too:

• A digital expansion for the WoW Trading Card Game
• Blizzard's WoW-related foray into mobile gaming
• An exciting new Plug-In scent from Glade

Ultimately, though, your guess is as good as ours. What exactly are we guessing? Well, funny you should mention it -- just this week, I asked our columnists a very simple question to interpret as they saw fit: "... pandaren?"