"Hai gusy!", shouted out Luke Johnson (WoW RPG developer) last night, after some silence on the White Wolf forums. His sudden reappearance marked the long-awaited announcement of a release date for the World of Warcraft RPG book "Dark Factions", which is now officially set for June 2008.

This follows an earlier confirmation from last week that the book was not cancelled after all, and it would indeed be released this year, since it's "currently at press and coming out shortly". As was said a couple of years ago, "[Dark Factions is] similar to the Alliance and Horde Player's Guides, but for independent races and factions. You'll see things like naga, pandaren, satyrs, the Argent Dawn, the Cult of the Damned, the Farstriders, and such".

In other news, the World of Warcraft Fan Art Gallery was updated with a gloomy piece by Romanian artist Alexandru Sabo (who did some art for the Warcards TCG), depicting the darkest of factions.