Stumbling & Bumbling

Cataclysm - WoW

I am completely geeked right the fuck OUT right now peeps. Blizzard just announced the new expansion for my beloved World of Warcraft and I think I have seen the trailer about eleventy-jillion times since I got home. Bask in the glory that is my nerdiness!

Behold:

STOP THE PRESSES - WORLD OF WARCRAFT ALERT

My hands are shaking. My heart is thundering in my chest.

They are making my game into a movie. There is a God!

(Naysayers, I say to you, GO TO HELL!)

Pulled from the NY Daily News:

World of Warcraft movie: from computer screen to big screen, with 'Spider-Man's Sam Raimi to direct

By Olivia Smith
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, July 22nd 2009, 9:31 AM

Blizzard Entertainment/AP

An image from the videogame 'World of Warcraft.' It's set to get the star treatment as a feature film.

The man behind the "Spider-Man" movies is ready for war.

Sam Raimi, director of the top-grossing "Spider-Man" films, has signed on to direct a film adaptation of the wildly popular videogame "World of Warcraft," Variety.com reports.

"At its core, 'Warcraft' is a fantastic, action-packed story," Raimi said in a statement.

The director, who has headed up all the Spider-Man flicks including the upcoming "Spider-Man 4," is known for bringing three-dimensional life to the comic books characters. Now he's taking on material with an even less flesh and blood story: a videogame.

Raimi's most recent effort, "Drag Me to Hell," garnered critical praise as a fun, tightly-paced take on the horror genre, with Daily News critic Joe Neumaier writing, "This is how it's done."

The first three "Spider-Man" movies are all in the top-20 top grossing films of all time, with the original "Spider-Man" leading the franchise in the number 8 spot after raking in $407,681,000 in the U.S.

The upcoming World of Warcraft flick also likely has a built-in audience, starting with millions of fans of the game.

The movie will build off the videogame's central conflict, between the Horde and the Alliance.

Known as a multiplayer online role-playing game, players create a character avatar and interact with other players on the Web, forming guilds, fighting monsters, and amassing skills that help them complete quests.

First released in 1994, it's by far the dominant video game of its kind, with 11.5 million monthly subscribers.

"Wrath of the Lich King," the most recent expansion version, sold 2.8 million copies the day it was released in November 2008, and went on to sell 4 million copies in its first month.

The movie-deal was initially inked back in 2006 between Legendary Pictures, which has a co-production and financing arrangement with Warner Bros., and Blizzard Entertainment, which publishes the game.

"Warcraft" is "emblematic of the kind of branded, event films for which our studio is best known," said Warner Bros. Pictures Group president Jeff Robinov.

Raimi will oversee development of the project, and begin shooting once he wraps "Spider-Man 4," which goes into production next year.

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*freakout!!!!*

Geek

I have been a geek all my long life. On top of being just a regular geek I am known as a "Gamer Geek". Regular geeks love Star Wars (guilty) and Star Trek (I've been able to make the Vulcan "Live Long and Prosper sign since I was what, 6?); I was at the midnight showings for the re-releases of every Star Wars movie and for the releases of the crappy "Prequels". I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy at least once every year and I paid to have my name added to the "fan list" at the end of the credits on the DVD's. Game -geek wise: I played Dungeons and Dragons, spent many hours playing Tetris, Contra ( I still remember the cheat codes) Mortal kombat, etc. I have purchased entire gaming systems just to be able to play Metroid, and have now graduated to the pinnacle of geek game-dom: World of Warcraft, also known as WoW. 

You know what I got MYSELF for mothers day? Several WoW themed T-shirts and a hoodie. After the kiddies go to bed I am a Night Elf Druid that is the head of her own guild and I run raids till midnight.

I am unapologetic. I am a geek. I love it.

This is a good reflection of a typical night in my house.

IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE! WoTLK!

 am lvling. talk l8r.

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This Year Christmas is on 11/13/08

OMG. OMG. OMG. I can't wait! This lvl 70 Night Elf Druid is literally drooling on her keyboard thinking of that day.

Huh? You don't know why? How can you not have that date etched on the fabric of your soul?

WHAT? You don't play World of Warcraft!!??? (looking at you uncomprehendingly)

Anywhoo...The new expansion comes out on 11/13/08! SQUEEEEEE!

Check it:

The old trailer that originally hooked me:

In the end if you decide to play - you won't regret it. REVEL IN THE GEEK THAT IS ME!