Once the gaming blockbuster MMORPG World of Warcraft was released in Asia, even more fans joined what was already a pretty open club, and it didn't take Blizzard Entertainment too long before announcing it had reached 5 million gamers which subscribed to play the game.

World of Warcraft was launched a year ago in the United States and soon after, in February this year to be more precise, the game was available for Europeans as well. Six weeks ago, World of Warcraft was also released in Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong and ever since, flocks of gamers rushed to subscribe and compete with users all over the world. Before too long, Blizzard was entitled to say that their MMORPG was the most popular at this time.

Blizzard is scheduled to release in 2006 a new expansion pack, titled World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. The expansion will feature new lands, quests, monsters, items and spells, new player races and professions, and will raise the level cap to 70.