It seems you can't swing a stick without hitting a claim of a new "WoW-like" game, but sometimes the claim bares closer inspection, like when the claim is made by a company like Bethesda.
Further revelations from the seemingly never ending dispute between Interplay and Bethesda over the rights to use the Fallout name have dredged up a claim that the Fallout 3 developer has a team of close to a hundred employees working on a "secret World of Warcraft type MMO" and that tens of millions of dollars have been invested.