Blizzard Mists of Pandaria No Joke Players Will Come Around to It

During last weekend's BlizzCon, the titular PC gaming giant unveiled the latest addition to its world of strife, backstabbing, and apocalypse dragons: Pandas. Now bears, of course, are generally horrifying creatures. We are thankful for our right to bear arms primarily because we fear bear arms. Pandas, though? They're generally associated with cuddles, rainbows, and Jack Black. Surely, Warcraft's finally jumped the shark, right? No more junk, no more soul -- just heaping dollops of d'aaaaaw? Not so, says Blizzard. Apparently, pandas can be badasses too.��

There's no way we're gonna build an expansion set based on an April Fools Joke,� he said.What you guys may not know is, our senior art director, Sam Didier, started drawing these guys years ago. Was it in Warcraft III, we included Chen Stormstout in Frozen Throne, maybe, in the Orc campaign? Was it after that? I can't remember anymore. But these guys are not a joke. This is an idea that we've been thinking about for years. It's one of our favorite flavors of Warcraft.�...

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