Blizzard Entertainment has announced plans for the fourth expansion to the hugely popular online role-playing World of Warcraft franchise for PC and Mac users.
Unveiled to a sold-out audience at the company's BlizzCon gaming festival, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria is set to uncover the mystery surrounding the long-lost continent rediscovered in the Cataclysm expansion.
Players are set to experience a range of new content and game features, such as new quests and dungeons, group scenarios and challenge modes.
Mike Morhaime, chief executive and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment, said: "Mists of Pandaria contains a huge amount of new content and we're looking forward to sharing more information about all of it at BlizzCon and beyond."
The new installment will aim to follow in the footsteps of previous expansion Cataclysm, which sold more than 3.3 million copies within its first day of availability.
Upon its release in December 2010, the game saw Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms given a makeover, as well as the introduction of new towns, and had been refreshed with almost 3,500 new quests.