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Pete Haas posted:
It looks like Blizzard is gearing up to announce a new expansion for World of Warcraft. Yesterday they filed a trademark for the title "Mists of Pandaria" in the United States.
The trademark application (via MMO-Champion) applies to "Computer game software; computer game discs; computer game software and related instruction manuals and guides sold together as a unit; downloadable computer game software; computer game software downloadable from a global computer network; downloadable electronic games via the internet and wireless devices; interactive multimedia computer game program; mousepads." This rules out the possibility that this is just a comic or some other form of merchandise.
Some of you aren't sufficiently nerdy enough to know what Pandaria is. Allow me to explain. Pandaria is the island home of the Pandaren, a mysterious race that resembles giant Pandas. Their society most closely resembles feudal Japan - okay, it's pretty much exactly like feudal Japan. They appeared in WarCraft III to a limited extent. Players could control Pandaren Brewmaster units in a few select missions.
The race actually started as a joke. On April's Fools Day a few years back, Blizzard stated they were going to be one of the four playable races in WC3. The giant Panda people were surprisingly well-received by gamers, though, so Blizzard decided to work them into the game's lore.
It's sort of hard to believe that Blizzard would make an entire World of Warcraft expansion based around a race they made up for "lulz." While WoW does have a comic tone at times, generally the main focus of an expansion is serious in nature. For example, the Cataclysm expansion is focused on how the world is literally coming apart at the seams after the return of the mad black dragon Deathwing.
While Blizzard is typically the sort of company that releases one big project a year, I am slightly curious whether Pandaria will be something smaller. Maybe it's a mobile game? Pandaren would make for a good kid's game, too.
If an announcement is forthcoming, it will probably happen at BlizzCon. BlizzCon 2011 will take place on October 21st and 22nd.
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Another site thinks this will be the expansion as well. I hope so!
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Titan: Mists of Pandaria
Blizzard's new cartoony casual MMO
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*pictures kung fu pandas in WoW*
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It could easily be a mobile game or some other spin off, which would make more sense.
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players have been begging for pandarin characters for years. in fact after each set of new races has been announced theres been a net wide moan of disappointment from people who wanted pandarin as a playable race. now we have WoW in decline after what most people consider a poor expansion. this is exactly the sort of thing blizzard would use to try to pull people back into game with. i'm betting all the chips on WoW Expansion.
i actually find the original article here sort of odd, like it was written by someone who did some research but doesn't actually know much about this firsthand. if they did they wouldn't find pandarin as a race to be far fetched or something the fans would consider a joke. the whole comment about finding it hard to believe blizzard would work them into the game as part of an expansion just makes the guy who wrote this article seem like he doesn't have a clue.
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I have to say a mobile game would totally rock, imagine, you pay 2.99 a month (you know it will be subscription based) and you earn rep/gold/and vanity pets on your mobile game that are usable in WoW. If it were fun, I would subscribe. I am sure others would too.
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This just blizzard's Iphone App in which they attempt to compete with Angry Birds.
You heard it here first!
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