World of Warcraft's Legion Expansion Announced UPDATED

There's no announced date for the release, but a beta is expected sometime later this year (2015).
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2489196,00.asp

UPDATE:  The release date for Legion is now "Summer 2016" but the beta is still expected sometime later this year.  Signups are available at Battle.net.

UPDATE #2:  Stuff about the new class of demon hunter and more.
http://www.wowhead.com/legion#new-class-demon-hunter

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Warlords of Draenor Have Garrisons?

The November 13th expansion pack for WOW features garrisons.  How do they work?  Here is Blizzard's four part answer.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/14001702

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/15978457/garrison-preview-part-2-all-buildings-great-and-small-9-25-2014

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/16218937/garrison-preview-part-3-who-are-you-calling-your-people-10-9-2014

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/16788662/garrisons-part-4-take-your-place-on-the-front-lines-11-13-2014

Blizzard has a Guide to Garrisons if you don't want to bother to read all the above.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/garrisons/

WOWHead has a nice summary article.
http://www.wowhead.com/news=241230/guide-to-garrisons-in-warlords-of-draenor-buildings-plots-followers-missions-and

If you are interested in getting ready for the expansion, the background downloader is already available here.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/16043924/warlords-of-draenor-patch-602-background-download-begins-9-23-2014

If you want to pick up items that are going to be removed, here is the listing.
http://www.wowhead.com/news=242815/preparing-for-6-0-guide-to-removed-mounts-pets-transmog-gear-titles-achievements


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Maximum Level for Each WOW Expansion?

The Solo MMO Player just asked me the maximum level for the original game and each expansion of World of Warcraft.  It was so hard to find I thought I'd post the answer here.

Vanilla WOW  - top level 60 (November 2004)
Burning Crusade - top level 70 (released January 2007)
Wrath of the Lich King - top level 80 (released November 2008)
Cataclysm - top level 85 (released December 2010)
Mists of Pandaria -  top level 90 (to be released September 25, 2012)

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Skyrim "Creation Kit" and Bug Fixes Coming February 2012

Sometime next month Bethesda will release their Creation Kit to totally open up the PC version of the game to modders.  They also will allow mods to be uploaded to Steam where they can be rated and downloaded by other PC players.
http://kotaku.com/5864312/starting-month-you-will-get-the-tools-to-reinvent-skyrim-on-pc

At the same time, a whole list of bugs will be fixed.  Here is a list.
http://kotaku.com/5877738/skyrims-creation-kit-is-nearly-ready

No word on the promised expansion packs, to be exclusive on the xBox for the first month.  Most people expect the sketchy areas of Morrowind and Oblivion seen from Skyrim are there because there will be DLC that uses those areas.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/329254/meaty-skyrim-dlc-packs-inbound/

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WOW Cataclysm Leak and New Race/Class Combos Speculation

MMO Champion is researching what the next expansion pack for WOW (named Cataclysm) will be like. There are lore spoilers in this information so don't look if you don't want to know. I've posted the summary at WOW Insider but for the most information follow the link to the MMO Champion website. Most of this will be released publicly at BlizzCon apparently.

http://www.wow.com/2009/08/14/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-leaked-by-mmo-champion/#continued

The possible new race and class combinations are discussed here. I can't say all this speculation on the next expansion pack or upcoming patch interests me terribly but here is the information for those who want to know.

http://www.wow.com/2009/08/14/new-race-class-combinations-datamined/#continued

Big Bear Butt has written an interesting reaction to the Cataclysm changes.

http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/08/14/speculation-on-cataclysm/

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