Horde vs. Alliance is about to get more complicated.
Blizzard Entertainment revealed on the site for its insanely popular multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft that an upcoming patch will allow players to fight for the other faction in player-vs-player content. Traditionally, races in World of Warcraft belong to one of two groups, the Horde or Alliance, and those two sides could only fight each other.
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World of Warcraft is the top MMO on the market, with 7.1 million subscribers as of May. However, that number was down from around 10 million after Warlords of Draenor launched in November.