Finger Lich King good?

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KCL has its fair share of nerds, and we love them

But news today that more than 2,000 people – yes, 2,000, queued for hours on Oxford Street to get their hands on the ‘second expansion pack’ for online fantasy role-playing game, World of Warcraft, is deeply disturbing to the gentle mind of the Radar.

The special midnight opening of the store apparently provided an entertaining night for fans of the game – some of whom hadn’t left their homes since 2004, when the original game came out – but most of the 2,000 queuees admitted they couldn’t wait to race home and play the new version all night.

The BBC report of this ground-breaking event makes for harrowing reading: “Scott Hamshere, from Bromley, should have been the first person in the UK with a copy of the game. He had started queuing at 6am and was the first in line. However, as the barriers were lifted, it was all too much, and he collapsed from exhaustion.”

Well, Scott, I hope you recover quickly, as you’ll need all your energy to lock yourself in your bedroom, prop yourself in a slimy chair and waggle your joystick repetitively until you get blisters or go blind or something.

The ‘Wrath of the Lich King’ promises a bonus continent for high-level players, a plethora of new enemies, extra equipment, spells, and new professions. Sounds exhausting, eh, Scott?

With the tragic collapse of Mr. Hamshere, lucky 23-year-old Ben West, from Greenwich became the first person to own the game.

“Up until that point it was a bit of an anti-climax in some respects. I expected to be second in line, and when I was first it was a real surprise,” he told the BBC.

“I really feel for Scott, he was a real trooper, but in the end I think it just overwhelmed him. But we got chatting in the queue, he rang me afterwards, and we’re going to meet up for a drink at some point.”

After trying to kill each other on-line, no doubt?

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