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New World of Warcraft expansion Shadowlands announced

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News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief

Updated on 1 Nov 2019

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World of Warcraft's eighth expansion has been announced by Blizzard during the company's BlizzCon 2019 Opening Ceremony. It's called Shadowlands and it'll launch in 2020.

A typically snazzy cinematic saw Sylvanus crack open the sky and create a portal to the Shadowlands - the afterlife for the Warcraft universe. It's here the new chapter of WOW's story will be set.

Battle for Azeroth, WOW's seventh expansion, launched back in August 2018.

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