World of Warcraft's Mists of Pandaria enlargement fill up has been since a let go date of 25 September.
It will be the fourth prolongation to the video diversion and is written to keep players meddlesome in the pretension that is scarcely 8 years old.
Activision Blizzard final reported that the diversion had 10.2 million subscribers at the finish of March, down from more than 12 million in 2010.
The headlines comes at a time of doubt is to games publisher.
Its most shareholder - France's Vivendi - has reportedly hired two investment banks to sound out buyers for its 60% interest in the business.
Reuters reported that Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Time Warner and Chinese internet hulk Tencent have all been approached but nothing had been peaceful to encounter an asking cost of over $10bn (6.5bn).
It mentioned that Vivendi was right away deliberation obscure its aim cost and could finish up selling the interest to Activision Blizzard's management team if they could secure the money for a management buyout.
The Mists of Pandaria refurbish will enable players to "uncover the very old mysteries" of a mislaid continent populated by panda bears expert in martial arts.
It will be done existing both around retailers and online, in possibly a typical book or fine version, featuring a book and song CD.
Activision Blizzard mentioned WoW remained the "world's most renouned subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game", but it faces contest from newer rivals.
EA has invested heavily in its Star Wars: The Old Republic; Funcom not long ago expelled The Secret World - a pretension desirous by the abhorrence bard HP Lovecraft; and both Arenanet's Guild Wars 2 and Bethesda's Elder Scrolls Online are on the horizon.
Most hardcore gamers usually had time to accurately fool around a MMORPG at a time, mentioned Ed Barton, executive of digital media at Strategy Analytics. But he mentioned the new let go should secure faithfulness to WoW for a few years to come.
"There are some very burly rivals with complicated appropriation at the back them," he told the BBC.
"But as you have seen in the past when the pretension is faced with such contest there is a downward spike in subscribers, but most lapse as shortly as an refurbish is released.
"The bigger hazard is Activision Blizzard's next MMORPG, codenamed Tribune, that you design to be expelled in 2015. We know the firm's key imaginative teams are right away working on that rsther than than World of Warcraft itself."
WoW might obtain a serve speed up from the let go of a live action film formed on the game's universe.
Spider-Man trilogy executive Sam Raimi had originally been entangled with the project, but not long ago told the headlines site Crave Online that production firm Legendary Pictures had transposed him after he had turn entangled in a Wizard of Oz prequel.
"[They] do not have me directing World of Warcraft any more because when I took the Oz job, they had to pierce on to other director," he said. "They had to beginning creation it."
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