The new Mists of Pandaria trailer above, which shows the expansion’s nearly four minute long opening cinematic, is quintessentially Blizzard with every ridiculous detail rendered down to the cracked, blackened grooves in someone’s battle-torn fingernails. What better way to send the most popular MMO in history out with a bang? (Even if it’s a bang players keep free-to-playing through 2015 or 2016 and beyond.) There’s also WoW‘s 10-year anniversary, coming November 2014. About two years seems to be the going delta between expansions: Wrath of the Lich King (second) was November 2008, and The Burning Crusade (first) was January 2007. Let’s assume late 2014 then, since Mists of Pandaria is arriving third quarter 2012, and Cataclysm, the third and most recent expansion, was a December 2010 release. (Blizzard neither confirmed nor denied its veracity, but with the exception of Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm, everything else has so far lined up) Okay, probably not - settle down, WoW wonks - because the Blizzard product ETA chart that leaked last summer showed a fifth expansion coming by December 2013. ( MORE: Sony’s Gamescom Proposal to Buoy the PlayStation Vita: All Hands on Deck!) It’s the game’s fourth expansion since WoW launched all the livelong way back in 2004, and for all we know, given WoW‘s declining subscriber numbers, it just might be the last. So Mists of Pandaria, which is not the subtitle for Kung-Fu Panda 3 (incidentally, confirmed) is coming at you next month on Tuesday, Sep. How Blizzard’s not being pursued in a legal capacity by DreamWorks Animation or Paramount Pictures, I couldn’t tell ya. They wear the same Kung-Fu Panda bamboo hats that look like woks turned upside down. It’s not like Blizzard’s forthcoming World of Warcraft is pandering to anyone. Follow keep wanting to spell Pandaria “Panderia,” I have no idea why.
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