It's now official!

Okay! the big news we all have been waiting for is now on a set date!

the 13th november 2008, blizzard will world wide release the new expansion Wrath of the Lich King for World of Warcraft. with over 10million active players if not more now, this will be huge.

Fingers tingeling, last year when The Burning Crusade was released, the stores opened from 00:00 to roughly 06:00. all over the world girls, boys, ladies and men alike, geeks and fanboys and what not gathering early, many hours before the shop released it to get their copy. 

I amongst one of them stood ready to get it early early early, with my preordered ticket in my hand in the freezing weather. this time however, I am gonna be earlier to secure myself an Collectors Edition of the expansion

Quote from blizzard about Collectors Edition:

We're happy to announce that World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King will ship in standard as well as Collector's Edition packages. The Collector's Edition will come in a special box that contains many exclusive extras to enhance your adventure into Northrend, including:

World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King on DVD-ROM.
The Art of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, a 208-page book featuring never-before-seen images from the game.
An exclusive in-game pet: Frosty, the baby frost wyrm.
A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, the Wrath of the Lich King intro cinematic with director’s commentary, and more.
The official soundtrack CD, containing 21 epic tracks from the game, along with exclusive bonus tracks.
A mouse pad featuring a map of the newly opened continent of Northrend.
Two World of Warcraft Trading Card Game March of the Legion™ starter decks, along with two exclusive cards available only in the Collector’s Edition.

The behind-the-scenes DVD will offer developer interviews and commentary on all aspects of the creation of Wrath of the Lich King, as well as trailers and cinematics from the game, and even footage of panel discussions from BlizzCon 2007.

Collector's Edition owners will also be able to take their adventures from the computer to the tabletop with two starter packs for the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game -- one for themselves and one to share with a friend. In addition, Collector's Edition owners will receive two exclusive tournament-legal World of Warcraft Trading Card Game cards to incorporate in their decks or trade with other World of Warcraft TCG players.

With the Collector's Edition-exclusive in-game pet, Frosty the baby frost wyrm, you'll be the envy of your guildmates and other players as you roam the expanses of Northrend.

A soundtrack CD with stirring music from the expansion pack, a beautiful coffee table book with exclusive concept art, and a Northrend-themed mouse pad round out the wealth of bonus items available in the Collector's Edition of World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King. Head over to our Wrath of the Lich King Pre-Order page now to learn more about pricing and availability of both the Standard and the Collector's edition.

I must say the most tempting here is that book, and the CD ( I love such kind of music) the pet will also be quite cool aside of my Death Knight.. Whats cooler than having a small cute rotten frozen flying baby dragon next to your Dead Knight arisen from the dead to spread plague and disease!?

here is also how the pet will look like (pic taken from MMO-Champion.com):

This will be an awesome day now lets pray I get one two weeks vacation as planned for this. it beeing november makes it good too, calm month at the store shouldent be to troublic I hope! 

the normal  standard box will have the CD's to install the game, manuall and all you need to play the expansion and lvl to 80 amongst others!. 

for more information about the expansion, and wrath of the lichking itself see either.

www.mmo-champion.com

www.worldofraids.com

http://www.wow-europe.com/wrath/

now the hunt for a good name for my Death Knight starts! any sugestions feel free to leave an comment to this blog on what it should be =)!

WoW Themed Wallpaper

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Figured I'd update fast with an wallpaper I have made. nothing special to say about it really.                     

Medusa's Power!

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I got Medusa's power in my fists and my hands! 

Turning people into stone.

the picture above is the same girl as I used for the "Good and Evil" one, this time I shreded her beauty and turned her into forever lasting stone!

I was... Pure... In Old Times!

"What to do.. Where to go... So many choices... Every single one of them leading to suffering.. and.. Death!"

So the decision is now final!

Wrath of the Lich King rolling closer day by day, the unkown of exactly when it will hit! World of Warcraft moving in to it's "Third age".

There are several new changes in the expansion wheres most know of them, or atleast the major ones, as for example level cap raised to 80, the introduction to the new hero class the Death Knight. I will be making an Death Knight and has now decided on what race (or im 98% Sure)

I have chosen Orc Male, regardless of the poll and what ive thought off before, reason for this is, when making my Death Knight. I want it to be.. Brutal and mean looking.  I am horde so I went through all races to see. Troll male is just crippled, not mean looking and I dont see it evil that an rastaman with glowing eyes hits me dancing some weirdo dance, troll female is same as male only they dont look crippled, was an ok choice but again the weapon size is abit small. Blood elf male and female are the ones I thought off most. male was a choice i thought of for a long time, however weird animations made me take it away despite the arrogant mean persona they are. the females ... well.. having a Two handed weapon that looks like a small one handed one makes you cry inside. to be a mean Death Knight holding a butter knife with two hands.. just no. Orc female.. well they stand so weird when hitting, if you walk up to an enemy facing it straight on and start to attack it, well your char will look really weird as she stands abit tillted. taurens where both male and female a valid choice, but failed due to beeing abit to big, aswell many helmets look abit weird on them, they are huge and mean, weapons sized with small cessna airplanes that they wield and smash around then in a grinting madness of cold breath. after slashing their cessna planes around they call for their mounts.. and the big huge tauren steps onto a small thing looking bone horse half its size that screams in pain as the tauren rides off..

wait what? ok so left are Undead male and female, and orc male. Undead male.. good classy, big weapons, far to big for the mount, however. the fact that it seems horde side is infested with undead's of all classes from before also I find their animations to be sort of.. dull.. that goes for female aswell. left with the winner the orc male, the have huge armor, weapon size far enough OK and animations not to weird nor to cool, their running animation is also in my opinion the coolest ingame. on a horse they might be ABIT to big! but hey they make up for it in the rest. now seeing Death Knights have abit different presets of hair and faces etc upon creaing it seems, it MIGHT change but I doubt it. So now its back to more nerve wrecking waiting for the expansion, its like waiting for presants on christmas eve really.. 

The movie Wanted review

No Spoilers ahead

Time for a fast new blog! Today its about the movie in theaters now named Wanted, starring  James McAvoy as Wesley Gibson, Morgan Freeman as "Sloan", Common (musician) as "The Gunsmith", Thomas Kretschmann as "Cross" , Terence Stamp as Pekwarsky and not to forget "HAWT!" as always Angelina Jolie starring as "Fox" (oh irony right there mrs.foxy)

Anyhows I don't want to put so many spoilers in here now seeing and respecting that the movie have not yet come out yet in all countries aroundthe world. Fastly here though I can safly say its one of those movies again  you just "got to see"! just like Iron Man. the storyline in the movie is in my optinion sometimes quite blurry. however it is of course an action movie, and the impressive gore and shooting scenes I found it amusing to watch brains flying with a bloody mess in slow motion up close. ok you cant see the brains but there is alot of blood. the unreal feeling one somtimes get when they "curve bullets" is an example of what makes the movie both cool and daft at the same time, personally I liked the movie quite alot, the trailer can make it seem quite daft and "oh yet another hoparound shoot'em up movie" one can sort of say that it is so, however thus its somewhat blurry storyline, it sure has its aha moments, humoristic moments aswell. this is althought not a movie you watch if you want to be thrilled!

the acting I'd say is quite ok, I have always liked James McAvoy's acting, he always seem to be a "pussy whimp gone bad" for some reason, in wanted that really is the fact. there are some parts that has acting that is less and abit off. wont tell why as it would spoil. but you will probably find out when you see it, all in all the acting IS infact good, you dont get the feeling looking at angelina jolie as the same persona as I find her to be in many movies, in wanted she is abit .. how to put it, seemingly "shyishly" and not as dominant i'd say atleast.

the movie is safly recommendable! I wish I could write more about the story and whats what and how this and that, but if you are gonna see the movie or thinking off it, go see it! all different opinions I heard some newspapers shredding it as bad and crap, all I know that has seen it says it is surprisingly good. I guess newspapers are still having old farts loving man to man live acting on a scene still rather than movies. 

From me the movie gets a dice roll off 5. 

Space explosion

hey ho

Time for a ninja adding! tired as hell I thought it'd be a great idea to try making an space explosion!

ok so I know how to make the explosion, two ways. one where there is space and one where the planet kind of just explodes. in this image I combined them two to see how the outcome was.

I was sort of satisfied with the outcome, To tired right off making it to boher about the buggery stars I would say it look quite ok. the loss of stars here and there and black spaces is what drags the result down, when seeing images of space and stars where galaxies show, they are -never- completly white, aswell as when looking at the sky stars are not white, stars are the twinkling ones that are other "suns" that blinkle in diferent colors, plain "white" ones are planets. this means the stars around the explosion itself was quite good I think (those stars that are there) comared to other space images id say the alikeness is so on so. the explosion itself went good I'd say, the planet in the middle and explosion around it.

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The space thing is something I wont let go off. once I got time again and am not tired, I am gonna try to make planets coliding to get an nice outcome of that, the image i made here one dont need to be skilled to do, without tutorial or with its a quite simple one, you can get it harder, harder often mirrors into an better result aswell.

so stay tuned for more updates! more to come!