Ahead of the release of the Battle for Azeroth expansion, Blizzard put out a couple of “Warbringers” animated shorts that told additional stories about some of the characters from World of Warcraft, namely Jaina Proudmoore and Sylvanas Windrunner, both of whom play key roles in the current expansion and storyline.

Blizzard’s MMORPG World of Warcraft was launched in 2004, but fast forward to 2018 and the game is still going on strong, making it one of the world’s longest-running MMORPGs around. Now given that it has been around for 14 years, you would think that interest in the game would wane, but as it turns out that hasn’t really been the case.

Gamescom 2018 will be kicking off in the next couple of days, and at the event we expect that there will be a bunch of new announcements and showcases from various developers and publishers. In fact Blizzard themselves are expected to make several announcements, such as new Overwatch content.

If the Battle for Azeroth expansion for World of Warcraft is something that you’ve been looking forward to, you will be pleased to learn that the expansion is now live. This will be the latest expansion for World of Warcraft and it also marks the seventh expansion in the game since the game was released back in 2004.

Blizzard’s World of Warcraft MMORPG was launched in 2004, which means that this year marks the 14th year that the game has been around. Safe to say that plenty of expansions have since been released, along with a bunch of changes made to the game both in terms of gameplay and graphics.

Leading up to the launch of the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth expansion, Blizzard has been releasing various animated shorts where there was one released for Alliance member Jaina Proudmoore, and more recently one for the Horde leader Sylvanas Windrunner. Now a new trailer has been released dubbed “Old Soldier”.

Just last week Blizzard released a new animated short under its new Warbringers series for Jaina Proudmoore, a member of the Alliance from the Warcraft universe. If you’re interested in learning more about some of the characters from Warcraft, then you might be interested to learn that a new Warbringers animated short has been released, this time for Sylvanas Windrunner.

While Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm was kind of late to the MOBA genre, Blizzard does have an advantage over existing MOBAs and that is the game uses already-established characters from Blizzard’s various franchises. This means that players getting into the game will be met with playable characters that they already know.

Blizzard’s Warcraft universe has a pretty long and rich history, thanks to story that the developers have crafted, the stories from the books, and also World of Warcraft which is continuously expanding on the overall story. This also means that those new to Warcraft have a lot of catching up to do.

In Blizzard’s Warcraft universe, the Horde and Alliance factions have always opposed each other. However for the most part, they have on more than one occasion banded together to defeat an even greater threat, such as the Burning Legion, but in the upcoming Battle for Azeroth expansion, they are about to clash again.

There have been talks in the past about how Blizzard could eventually make World of Warcraft a free-to-play game. This is because this seems to be a natural evolution that we’re seeing many other games headed towards after being available for a very long period of time. While Blizzard has yet to go down that path, it seems that they’ve maybe already laid out some of the groundwork.

The problem with games that are based online is that they’re subject to hacks such as DDoS. Unfortunately in Blizzard’s case, several years ago their MMORPG World of Warcraft was subject to such a hack, although the good news is that it appears that justice has been served to the hacker behind it.

Last year during BlizzCon 2017, Blizzard announced the next expansion for World of Warcraft in the form of Battle for Azeroth. The company did not mention when the expansion would be made available, although it was largely expected that it should be arriving in 2018. However the speculation can come to an end as Blizzard has confirmed its release date.

If you love all things Warcraft-related, you’ll be very pleased to learn that Family Guy will be airing a special World of Warcraft themed episode this coming Sunday. This has been confirmed on the Family Guy Twitter account where the episode is expected to be aired on the 1st of April, 2018, which is also April Fools.