World of Warcraft Shadowlands is releasing in late October

Blizzard have announced that the next expansion for World of Warcraft, Shadowlands will release on October 27 and will send players where mortal souls go to reckon with their pasts, discover new purpose... or suffer an eternity of torment. Celebrating this, they have released the first part of a four part animated series, which you can watch below.

Upon entering the Shadowlands, Azeroth’s champions will encounter an otherworld in disarray. Virtuous souls are being wrongfully cast into the eternal darkness of the Maw, while the Covenants—powerful factions who hold dominion over the afterlife’s disparate realms—face ruin and strife as the flow of the Shadowlands’ essential anima mysteriously dwindles. As an ancient, long-bound evil gathers the strength to break its chains, players must carve their path through the uncharted reaches of the beyond, forge a pact with the Covenant that most aligns with their own principles and purpose—and ultimately restore balance to the hereafter.

The expansion will go live on October 27 and 4pm Sydney time and if you want to order it for yourself, you can do that here.