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It's been revealed that actress Jamie Lee Curtis will be officiating her daughter's wedding dressed as the sorceress Jaina Proudmoore, from Blizzard's iconic MMORPG World of Warcraft. This news comes on the heels of big updates for the game itself; World of Warcraft recently revealed that cross-faction play would be coming to the MMO soon, drastically shaking up the lore and gameplay of the title.
Few would argue that World of Warcraft's impact on the video game industry has been anything short of monumental. It is often credited as having redefined the MMORPG genre, and it's still going strong today, despite facing stiff competition from other heavy hitters in the genre, like Final Fantasy XIV. The latter has famously reached success so staggering that developer Square Enix had to temporarily remove it from sale to prevent its servers from becoming overwhelmed. Luckily for MMORPG fans, Final Fantasy XIV went back on sale in January, and both it and World of Warcraft are going strong at the time of this writing.
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As influential as World of Warcraft has been, however, one might not expect it to reach someone like Jamie Lee Curtis. The actress, known for her work in the Halloween franchise and 2019's hit murder mystery
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