James An acronym. Officially, it stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. May Make Our Real People Geeks. If you can come up with something better, send it to me . DekuLink2k1 We get a ton of questions like this, so let me just address them generally.
Companies are quiet about upcoming releases for two main reasons.
The other reason is that they have a limited marketing budget and they want to pump up as much interest in the game as possible as close to release as possible. They want your excitement about the game to peak just before the game's release. That way you'll be more motivated to buy their game as opposed to some other game released about the same time. Blizzard is really good at this. Westwood also excels at keeping a lid on things until they're almost ready to be released.