Let's come back to WoW for a minute though.  What could bring a new breath of life to WoW more than a couple of new races? During the test phase of the latest content patch, a couple of  interesting items were found in the data for the test client. Hallow's End masks, showing a male and female version of Goblins and Worgen, had fans convinced that Blizzard would be revealing these species as new playable races at BlizzCon. Until now, these in-game masks only depict playable races, however, shortly after this discovery Blizzard updated the client again and a whole variety of new masks from various creatures in the game were added. Was this a cover-up, a prank by Blizzard or just an unfortunate coincidence? The jury is still out on that one, but we'll see.

Despite the threat of a global disaster hitting Azeroth, it's likely players will be visiting the Maelstrom and taking on Azshara, which will probably involve the Undermine, home of the Goblins, further backing up the new race rumour. The Greymane Wall is another obstacle in the game that has niggled at players since the launch of WoW almost five years ago. Located next to the Worgen-infested Shadowfang Keep, I personally feel that the nation of Gilneas, which lies beyond the wall, is possibly an ideal location for the start of the rumoured Worgen race, the level 10-20 area and race capital.

With every WoW expansion comes a level cap rise, and so far we've seen it go from level 60 to 70 with The Burning Crusade, and from 70 to 80 with Wrath of the Lich King, yet word has it that the cap might only be moved up to 85 this time around. If so, it will be interesting to see how the expansion will fit into only five levels.

With all that said, the fact is no one knows anything for certain about the possible WoW expansion, so until Friday we'll all still be guessing.

The Warcraft film, which was first announced two years ago at BlizzCon 2007, has remained a thing of fantasy since its unveiling. No information has been shared with fans on the project, which was originally meant to be released this year, until the recent announcement that Spider-man director Sam Raimi would be taking it on. A new estimated release date of 2011 or 2012, depending on whether you listen to Warner Bros or Legendary Pictures, has been given and Raimi will begin work on the title next year after completing Spider-man 4. With all this activity over the last few weeks, it's hoped that there will be at least some news about the film, well, it would be about time.

As well as all the developer panels, which will likely give away a few nuggets of new information, fans can expect the usual fun events such as the dance and costume competitions, and the movie and fan art competitions which seem to get better each year. The hugely popular attraction at last year's BlizzCon was the appearance of cast members from The Guild on stage and autograph signing sessions afterwards, which will be repeated this year, along with signings from various fiction writers. Blizzard's in-house band normally bang out a few tracks such as "I Am Murloc" and "Rogues Do It From Behind", and the top notch Video Games Live performances at last year's event and the WWI are always favourites with fans. But all that pales into insignificance when you consider that none other than Ozzy Osbourne will be closing BlizzCon this year with a performance on stage. Will he perform solo or team up with Lvl 80 ETC we wonder.

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