World of WarCraft is Blizzard's upcoming MMORPG. The beta for it is planned to begin later this year. Release probably late next year.
There was recently an article in Computer Gaming World on WoW... it Announced new races so was a big exclusive, but its also a good all around preview, and they had hands on time with the game itself.
Theres high quality scans of the article .
here
Even in its early form they really enjoyed the game. WoW sounds like the first MMORPG that the masses will want to play