7.5 million subscribers for WoW

Nov 9, 2006 15:31 GMT  ·  By

As World of Warcraft subscribers have now reached 7.5 million worldwide, Blizzard Entertainment is getting ready to release the first game expansion entitled The Burning Crusade.

This new pack will hit European and North American stores next year, on January 16th to be more exact. The Burning Crusade will be available on PC and Macintosh computers. There will also be a limited Collectors' Edition that will include, besides a CD and DVD with the expansion, a Burning Crusade coffee table book, an exclusive in-game per, a World of Warcraft Trading Card Game strater deck along with some exclusive cards, a behind the scenes DVD, the official soundtrack CD and a Outland map mouse pad.

This new expansion will include 2 new races and 15 new enemies. The new playable races are Blood Elves and Draenei. The Blood Elves are remnants of the High Elves race, the only race who survived the Undead Scourge attack on QuelThalas.

The other playable race, Draenei, has a common lineage with the Eredar race, but while Eredar are twisted by shadow magic, the Draenei follow the path of the Light.

The new enemies present in the Burning Crusade expansion will include: Eredar, Forest Trolls, Gronn, Warp Stalkers, Naaru, Fungal Giants, Rock Players, Fel Orcs and more.