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 =)!