Tokyopop and Blizzard Entertainment have announced a new publishing project based on the hugely popular Warcraft game universe.  Since the debut of Warcraft in 1994 Blizzard Entertainment has sold more than 14 million copies of various iterations of the popular PC game.  Now it has licensed Tokyopop to create a three-volume manga series, Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilolgy, which Richard Knaak, who is also writing a trilogy of Warcraft prose novels, will write.  In addition to a number of fantasy and science fiction novels, Knaak also penned the English adaptation of the highly popular Ragnarok manhwa series published by Tokyopop.  Jae Hwan Kim, who is a major Warcraft aficionado as well as the artist on Tokyopop's King of Hell series, is providing the stunning artwork for the new Warcraft manga trilogy.  The first volume in the Tokyopop Warcraft manga trilogy will ship to retailers in February of 2005.

 

The Warcraft manga trilogy will be set in the same rich fantasy universe employed in Blizzard's upcoming Warcraft Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) and will follow the adventures of Kalec, a blue dragon who takes human form to escape the forces that seek to destroy his race.  But Kalec soon finds that saving his own race is only the starting point in a quest to save the entire High Elven Kingdom from the forces of the Undead Scourge. 

 

In addition to the PC games from Blizzard and the manga trilogy from Tokyopop, White Wolf has created a Warcraft RPG, while Fantasy Flight Games has published a Warcraft board game and Toycom has created Warcraft action figures.