Vivendi sent through some new World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King screenshots, which you can check out now on our whiz-bang new games page. In case you're one of those WoW players that doesn't know what's going on, here's the feature list from this upcoming expansion:

Features:

* New character class: the necromantic Death Knight
* New continent: Northrend, the icy domain of the Lich King
* New level cap of 80, including mighty new powers and talents
* Epic siege warfare and destructible buildings
* New profession: augment the power of your spells and abilities with Inscription
* New character-customization options, new dungeons, and much, much more…

I'm guessing its a Blizzard rule that fog has to be used in every scene??

Warhammer Online is where its at.

My brother has been asking if he can reactivate my WoW account so he can use it to level his other chars, and I think I just twigged as to why.

looks like the same s***, just smeared differently

I don't think that's meant to be fog but just a viewing distance fade out effect.

I don't know why they bother with screen shots, looks just like what's already in game.

I for one am looking forward to this!

Link to a video made up by World of Raids showing off all the recently released footage of the expansion pack. Whilst it looks more or less the same graphically, there's a big chunk of new content and new things they've put into the game - Aerial Combat, all raid dungeons can be done with either 25 man or 10 man groups, new quest mechanics & other such things - check out the big list on WoR for more stuff.

Sounds like a winner to me - can't wait for it (or SC2 for that matter)

Massive info dump about some of the new stuff coming in wotlk:

http://boards.worldofraids.com/topic-13155-1.html

Don't care how many people bitch about the poor graphics with WoW. The incredible art and design that goes into WoW's world is phenomenal. It’s more beautiful and immersive then any other game on the market like crysis and oblivion.

The strong art direction only softens the blow.

Age of Conan where it's at

Really looking forward to this. The visuals look damn nice and a welcome return to the feeling of the WoW of old.

driveone is logging your keys

Best nuke that post, methinks.

i always loved the artistic stylings of wow

do gold farmers pay people to google for forums that mention wow and then get them to post their gold farming sites?

lvl cap of 70 and now 80 is what killed it for me