Video Games with Collector's Edition - Diablo II, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, World of Warcraft, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, Command & Conquer: R (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Diablo II, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, World of Warcraft, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, The Sims 3, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, Star Wars: Empire at War, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. Excerpt: World of Warcraft, often abbreviated as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Blizzard Entertainment, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. World of Warcraft takes place within the Warcraft world of Azeroth, approximately four years after the events at the conclusion of Blizzard's previous Warcraft release, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Blizzard Entertainment announced World of Warcraft on September 2, 2001. The game was released on November 23, 2004, on the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise. The first expansion set of the game, The Burning Crusade, was released on January 16, 2007. The second expansion set, Wrath of the Lich King, was released on November 13, 2008. The third expansion set, Cataclysm, was released on December 7, 2010. At BlizzCon in October 2010, lead producer J. Allen Brack announced that there would be a fourth expansion set for the game, even though the developers don't yet know what it will be about. With 11.1 million subscribers as of June 2011, World of Warcraft is currently the world's most-subscribed MMORPG, and holds the Guinness World Record for the most popular MMORPG by subscribers. As with other MMORPGs, players control a character avatar (also referred to as a toon) within a game world in third- or first-person view, exploring the landscape, ...