January 15 - 19

Do I even need to say it?

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is this week's Game of the Week! Oh, I hear your snidely toned catcalls of, "can you even make an expansion pack game of the week" and "wow, now you can level to 70!" To you people I have the following to say: shut your tender, pink cake-holes! With a game that recently cleared 8,000,000 active subscribers, we minions of the Dark Lady alone could rise up against you and tell stories about Blackwing Lair and Strat Dead Side until, begging us to stop, your very eyes popped from your head! Don't make us hurt you.

Look upon my precious, and suffer!

On DVD is a list of stuff I don't care about for it's non World-of-Warcraftiness, like Doctor Who Season 2 and Employee of the Month. Full list available here.

PC:
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (01/16)
Close Quarters Conflict (01/16)

PS2:
NCAA March Madness 07 (01/17)

DS:
Underground Pool (01/15)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice for All (01/16)
Fossil League: Dino Tournament Championship (01/16)

XBOX360:
Heavy Weapon (01/17)
NCAA March Madness 07 (01/17)

WII:
WarioWare: Smooth Moves (01/15)

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Location: Ticket to the edge. Nowhere To Hide. Lets go For the Joyride.

And now we know why you are looking for writers!

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Vrikk's picture
Location: Away from light and sound, down stairways leading underground.

New Phoenix Wright. Yeah buddy.

I have no urge to get Burning Crusade, but I've actually had about 80 copies of the game in my possession, and held 5 of the Collector's Editions in my hands. Man, they are nice. Huge boxes though. What exactly is inside of it?

Yet even then we ran like the wind,
whilst our laughter echoed under cerulean skies...

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Vrikk wrote:
New Phoenix Wright. Yeah buddy.

I have no urge to get Burning Crusade, but I've actually had about 80 copies of the game in my possession, and held 5 of the Collector's Editions in my hands. Man, they are nice. Huge boxes though. What exactly is inside of it?

If I told you it was Oogaba, would that give you an urge?

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Location: On my way from misery to happiness today

Vrikk wrote:
New Phoenix Wright. Yeah buddy.

I'm right there with you: I've been anxious for a new Phoenix Wright for a while now, so I'm definitely picking that up.

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painthappens's picture
Location: At work... way too often!

EB Games sucks. The bastards called me and left a message trumping up BC less than a week into my detox from wow.

WOW: Bounce

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Trachalio's picture
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba

I'm all about the Wario Ware: Smooth Moves this week. 12 person multiplayer with a single Wii Remote?

Warioware: Smooth Moves + 12 friends + alcohol = crazy delicious

or possibly:

Warioware: Smooth Moves + 12 friends + alcohol = crazy bruises

I'll have to run an experiment this weekend...

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I was playing WoW with 5 of my friends yesterday and we all got the phone-call reminder from EB to pick up our pre-orders in the exact order we placed them. It was rather humorous. To think we'd forget.... Ha


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Location: Grand Rapids, MI

Expansion of the week, huh. I hope Wario haunts you in your sleep (in a week or so when you WoW people succumb to it).

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Location: Sappin' a sentry!

Vrikk wrote:
I have no urge to get Burning Crusade, but I've actually had about 80 copies of the game in my possession, and held 5 of the Collector's Editions in my hands. Man, they are nice. Huge boxes though. What exactly is inside of it?

Pure Gamium (although I believe that the Collector's Edition is the Addictium-836 isotope, as opposed to the slightly less shiny -- but just as effective -- Addictium-274 isotope in the regular box).

Don't you understand, Cliff? We put a chainsaw on a machine gun! That's it! It doesn't get more awesome than that! We've peaked, man! We've peaked! - ctrl-alt-del on Gears of War 2

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Location: Syracuse, NY

Elysium,

Ignore the comments from the non-believers. Someday the Army of WoW will rise up and rule the world.

If you don't play WoW, the terrorists have won!

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Location: Syracuse, NY

painthappens wrote:
EB Games sucks. The bastards called me and left a message trumping up BC less than a week into my detox from wow.

Resistance is .......wait for it......FUTILE.

Hey Bounce, guess what I did last night? An UBRS run with 9 other goodgers! Guess who wasn't there? YOU!!

Now get your sorry big busted ass back into the game.

PS: It was actually only half a run, I had to leave early!

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Location: Cary, NC

What's this "World of Warcraft" I've been hearing so much about? Is it some fancy new game?

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Good lord, I wouldn't have expected brilliance like that from that nemeslut Quintin Stone!

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Location: Right behind you.

Quintin_Stone wrote:
What's this "World of Warcraft" I've been hearing so much about? Is it some fancy new game?

You'll get tired of playing it. Trust me.

-Bad Mojo

And man that dog looks like he's having a good time, but that monkey is f*cking into it. This isn't his recreation; this is his life and he knows it in a way I will never know anything. --Danjo Olivaw

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Location: I turn once more to those who/ sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer...

I had a Burning Crusade in my pants once, but a few days of strong antibiotics took care of it.

/obligatory

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Location: Vancouver

What was the name of that Aerosmith song again? It kind of went like this.... "I'm baaaaaack! I'm baaaaaaaaack in the saaaaadle agaaaaaaaaain!"

Rev: v2.05

And in these days your worlds will be filled with blond haired, pointy eared things and all things tentaclely. The seal shall thus be broken and called forth, the mighty elementalists and keepers of light shall overpopulate the land. FOR IT IS SO.

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I've wavered on picking up Burning Crusade, but I think I've managed to talk myself into waiting for a bit. I want to see just how fresh the experience is for the new races. I'm also thinking it's going to be tough actually getting into a server for a while.

Certis beat me to it. - Elysium

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Location: Ottawa Ontario, Canada

Can you even make an expansion pack game of the week?

/runs

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Of course I can, I'm Will Wright, bitch! - The Simpsons Game
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Would you kindly...
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Location: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Quote:
Resistance is .......wait for it......FUTILE.
Hey Bounce, guess what I did last night? An UBRS run with 9 other goodgers! Guess who wasn't there? YOU!!
Now get your sorry big busted ass back into the game.

One day at a time, Paint. Don't give in!

XBox Live / PSN: jonnypolite | WoW: Cait (Warlock) on Blackhand | Twitter

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Location: At work... way too often!

jonnypolite wrote:
Quote:
Resistance is .......wait for it......FUTILE.
Hey Bounce, guess what I did last night? An UBRS run with 9 other goodgers! Guess who wasn't there? YOU!!
Now get your sorry big busted ass back into the game.

One day at a time, Paint. Don't give in!

I won't. I'm only out 5 bucks from EB games if I don't pick up my copy anyway... Plus you know I stay married

WOW: Bounce

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Quote:
I won't. I'm only out 5 bucks from EB games if I don't pick up my copy anyway... Plus you know I stay married

You can move that to another pre-order or get it refunded, you know.

Certis beat me to it. - Elysium

Would you kindly...
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Location: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

And if it's the CE, pick that puppy up and ebay her (or have a friend do it for you, better to keep it out of the house altogether, to resist temptation).

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zeroKFE's picture
Location: In your fruit bowl terrorizing the oranges

Wario Ware for me. I'll be keeping my soul this week, thanks.

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Location: Hell's heart

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade standard edition: $40

EVE Online 3 month subscription fee: $38.85

Making the time to finish your PhD and get a paying job: Priceless

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Location: Near the clearing at the end of the path

I gave in and resubscribed to WoW last night after a 14 month hiatus.

Bring on the Burning Crusade and if you listen closely you can hear divorce lawyers around the world rejoicing.

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There'd be a lot more support for World of Warcraft here, but we're all playing and getting ready for the expansion. So, just pretend like there are 10 million people in here disagreeing with you all.

Quote:
I won't. I'm only out 5 bucks from EB games if I don't pick up my copy anyway

Yeah, definitely move that five dollars to another reserve or just ask for it back. Happens all the time.

"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis

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I'm not going to buy the expansion for a while. I bought WoW the day it came out, I have only one character I've been playing since then, and he's level 44 and has been re-specced half a dozen times. At my leveling rate, by the time I can access the new content at level 58, it's going to be another 6 months.

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Location: Finally, back in my own little world

Elysium wrote:
There'd be a lot more support for World of Warcraft here, but we're all playing and getting ready for the expansion.

Yay WoW! Gotta jet.

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Location: Toronto, Ontario

Elysium wrote:
To you people I have the following to say: shut your tender, pink cake-holes!

My horde guild on the Feathermoon server is actually called "The Pink Cupcakes."

We figured it would be fearsome to see a bunch of orcs and trolls and tauren running around with a pink tabard, and instill fear in alliance while in battlegrounds. It's actually quite a sight when we group together for instances, or even better, just running as a group doing world quests.

Moo.

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Location: Uhhh..... Long story....

I thought they were pie holes!?

Sorry - I will resist the siren song of WoW. I am number 7 in Project 8. I will be number 1. And then I will be able to tell Bam Margera to shut his tender whatever.

Duoae wrote:

Crouton wrote:
The upside is that these problems are potentially soluble.
Like the wicked witch of the west?

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Location: Chiba City

Dear Best Buy Customer,

Thank you for your "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" pre-order on BestBuy.com.

You are receiving this email because you had placed an order for this product to be picked up in one of our retail stores.

We understand that you have already received an email indicating that "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" is ready for pick-up today. That email contained an error, and should have advised that your order won't be ready for pick-up until January 16th, the day it releases.

Please wait until January 16th to go to the store to pick up your order. The stores are not allowed to release this product any sooner than the day it releases.

We apologize for any inconvenience and confusion this error has caused. Please do not hesitate to contact us with additional questions or concerns.

Thank you for your loyalty,

The Customer Care Team
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