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World of Warcraft is about to be shaken to its core. Again.
Cataclysm, the third expansion to the popular and long-running MMORPG, is a major moment in the evolution of Blizzard Entertainment's fantasy game.
As the name implies, Cataclysm throws Warcraft's world of Azeroth into upheaval, with the evil dragon Deathwing the Destroyer smashing his way up from an elemental plane and into the real world, as seen in the trailer above. Accompanying the creature are natural disasters that move mountains, flood valleys and change the way Wow's virtual world looks and plays.
Well, that's how the fiction goes, anyway. In reality, the Cataclysm unleashed Tuesday is a carefully controlled series of fastidiously tweaked upgrades that Blizzard has been beta testing for nine months. But some truly unplanned cataclysms have rocked World of Warcraft in the game's six-year history.
Relive with us seven of the craziest catastrophes to befall the virtual realm.
(Special thanks to WoW experts Gus Mastrapa, Karen Chu, John Mix Meyer and Clarence Lum.)
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