It's official: Wrath of the Lich King coming November 13

by Ross Miller { Sep 15th 2008 at 3:02AM }

Popular World of Warcraft database site Wowhead has unveiled what it's claiming to be an official (and rather gigantic) Blizzard ad that reveals the official Wrath of the Lich King release date: Thursday, November 13. To celebrate, Wowhead is raffling off 10 beta keys. Though we know the expansion is due in Q4 2008, ~~Blizzard has yet to confirm the date, either via press release or its website -- in other words, don't take this as gospel until we get an official statement.~~ Update: The ad is now also appearing prominently on Thottbot, though it should be noted both it and Wowhead are owned by the same company. Update 2: Blizzard finally made it official (more official than a generous ad buy, at least). In other news, the Thanksgiving Day traditions of millions of families just got kicked in the sweetmeats.

Check out WoW Insider for more WotLK coverage than you can shake a Cross-eyed Stick of Information Overload at.

Gallery: Wrath of the Lich King

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Aaron P @ Sep 15th 2008 3:07AM

w00t!

can't wait.

hunt3r @ Sep 15th 2008 3:30AM

Unless GOA completly fucks up Warhammer Online in Europe I will not be returning to wow. Well maybe once and a while to enjoy the barrens chattie. That is indeed the peak of human evolution!!

Devilmachine @ Sep 15th 2008 3:36AM

Sweet! I was expecting it to be announced a lot later than this. Can't wait for November to roll round.

VoLiTioN @ Sep 15th 2008 3:39AM

I've got a beta invite available for purchase if anyone's interested.

B @ Sep 15th 2008 4:37AM

Good luck selling it. Everyone and their mother has already gotten in.

VoLiTioN @ Sep 15th 2008 5:00AM

Hmm. May as well give to my friend then.

B @ Sep 15th 2008 4:36AM

The ad is also appearing on Projectlore.com (I hate subliminal advertising, sorry).

sinergy @ Sep 15th 2008 6:48AM

Get your fix this November. Now with extra crack!

John Z @ Sep 15th 2008 7:32AM

I don't know about you guys, but this terrifies me. If anything goes wrong with, say, a major computer system or anything like that, between the 13th and the 16th of November, we're well and proper f%$#ed because a huge chunk of the world's IT staff will be at home playing WoW. So yeah. The Large Hadron Collider doesn't scare me nearly as much as this does. Time to go stock up on batteries and canned goods.

(only half-joking)

JerJerBinks @ Sep 15th 2008 10:30AM

Wow, what a broad and ugly generalization. I work in a IT staff of 38 people and 1, yep just 1, plays WoW. A few of us used to play, (upping the grand total to 4 of 38), but we quit playing shortly after the release of the 1st expansion.

You would probably have better luck generalizing the Ren-fair and LARPing types as WoW-players. Better yet, college students with lots of time on their hands.