Warcraft made its debut in 1994 as a real-time strategy game based on a conflict between the Horde and the Alliance.

It developed into the multiplayer online game World of Warcraft in 2004, which has a huge following.Wow gold Kaufen

Warcraft now holds the Guinness World Record as the most popular multiplayer online game with more than 11.5 million monthly subscribers.

The two companies said they were confident that Raimi, who also directed wow gold the Evil Dead series and has worked with the Coen Brothers, was the ideal man to satisfy Warcraft enthusiasts, as well as a mainstream audience.

"Raimi has, in the course of his career, clearly demonstrated a genius for developing and adapting existing fictional universes for mainstream audiences while staying true to the spirit of the original content," the companies said in a statement.