Monday, January 15, 2007

WoW: Burning Crusade launches tonight

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/15/wow-burning-crusade-launches-tonight/

The Draenei will be unreleased, the Outlands shall be explored, millions of people will log on to experience Blizzard's World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade expansion -- and the servers maintaining Azeroth will, more than likely, crash. If history teaches us nothing else, it's that whenever WoW receives an upgrade of any form, Murphy's Law is hiding just around the corner. Besides the Burning Crusade launch itself, Gamestop is having special midnight events and a Blizzard game designer spoke about the idea of porting the game to consoles.

As previously reported, Gamestop will be holding midnight launch events at many of their stores this evening. Some will have special contests going on and it's best to call your local Gamestop or EB Games to find out if they have anything special planned.

British website Pro-G has an interview with Blizzard game designer Jonathan LeCraft where he speaks about porting the game to consoles. LeCraft says, "You really do need a keyboard to play WoW ... I've seen some mods where people have hooked up WoW to their Wii. When I saw that I was like, well, that's got to be pretty easy to PVP against, honestly. It's not something we're looking at right now." LeCraft goes on to say that due to the money WoW is bringing in we can expect to see another MMO from the studio. We're expecting some kind of major announcement from Blizzard at, or a little before, Min-E3.

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