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The pool of World of Warcraft diehards just keeps getting bigger. Although the game is going on three years old, it has only become more popular with time: Blizzard reported Tuesday that the game now has 9 million subscribers worldwide.

To lend some perspective, that’s greater than the population of all five boroughs of New York City (8.2 million as of 2006), and right about equal with the population of Sweden (9 million as of 2004). World of Warcraft fans, banded together, could overfill a metropolis or populate their own country.  Read more...

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the much-anticipated The Burning Crusade expansion to its popular World of Warcraft massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) will ship in January, 2007, rather than in time for the 2006 end-of-year holidays.

The expansion pack adds new races and territories to the online game, as well as enables players to create more powerful characters. Blizzard plans to use the delay to “further refine” the content of the game and extend its closed beta test. “We appreciate the enthusiasm surrounding World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, and we’re excited about putting the finishing touches on all of the new content,” said Mike Morhaime, Blizzard president and co-founder. “We feel confident that the extra time spent polishing the game will result in the high-quality experience that our players expect and deserve.”