World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Release Date Announced

Today Blizzard has announced the global release date for the second expansion to the ever popular World of Warcraft. You should be able to pick up Wrath of the Lich King at most major retailers on November 13th, 2008.

"We're looking forward to launching Wrath of the Lich King and finally giving World of Warcraft players a chance to take on Arthas and his minions," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "Until then, we'll continue to refine and playtest the expansion content to make sure it provides a highly polished and entertaining experience."

Not only will you be able to finally own the expansion, but Blizzard has offered up a Collector's Edition for the hardcore WoW'ers. Besides containing the game itself, the Collector's Edition will have all of the following:

A 208-page art book titled The Art of World of Warfcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

An exclusive in-game pet, a baby frost wyrm

A Behind-The-Scenes DVD

The offical soundtrack CD with 21 songs from the game, including some bonus tracks

A mousepad made special with a map of the continent of Northrend

World of Warcraft Trading Card Game March of the Legion starter decks

Finally, two special edition trading cards that are only available with the Collector's Edition

Now that's a good deal, why can't more game companies be like that?


-Undrallio

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Uwe Boll Gets Denied

It seems everyone's favorite video game director is at it again! Uwe Boll recently petitioned Blizzard about making a World of Warcraft movie, but was rather rudely denied by Paul Sams of Blizzard.

'We will not sell the movie rights, not to you...especially not to you. Because it's such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it."

Wow, thats pretty harsh. I wonder why Blizzard wouldn't want the director of such gems as BloodRayne, Postal and House of the Dead directing a movie based on their game?







-Ryizzel

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World of Warcraft achieves one million concurrent connections in China

It seems everyone's favorite MMORPG just got a little more popular. Blizzard's partners in China, The9, has announced that World of Warcraft has achieved one million concurrent connections.

According to the press release, this breaks the record concurrency of the game's original launch in June 2005 and its release in China on September 6, 2007.

...How do you say "noob" in Chinese...

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-Ryizzel

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