Gameplan has made a great video about the top 20 open world games for PC. Worth a watch to reminisce on some of your favourite games.

Worth checking out

1. Gangland Mafia is a pretty cool new browser MMORPG. It’s free to play, however they do have in game additional content that can be purchased.
2. Aryel over at God Is A Geek has given a great review of Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening.
3. Lots have links have been popping up for a new MMO account sales site. At this stage they only appear to be selling WoW accounts and some WoW Gold.
4. Angry Joe has made a great video review on Risen for the Xbox 360. I like his style of not holding back but rather telling it how he sees it.

April Blog Carnival

Humour

Casey Markee presents 15 Warning Signs You’re Addicted to World of Warcraft | Troubled Teens Wizard posted at Troubled Teens Wizard Blog, saying, “Do you or your friends exhibit any of these 15 Warning Signs You’re Addicted to World of Warcraft? If so, seek help immediately. The life you save may be your own.”

Reviews

Meg presents a gamer review of Nick Bounty posted at Simpson’s Paradox.

The third expansion (World of Warcraft: Cataclysm) to Blizzard’s huge money maker (estimated $810M per year from western gamers only) is due to be released in the fourth quarter this year and there is plenty packed into this tasty US$40.00 morsel.

Brand new races

Goblins:
Yes you can now play these crafty little green men. After many a sour business deal with the ever naive Alliance, the Goblins have joined the dark side as it were.

Worgen:
These great looking wolf-men are the latest addition to the Alliance side. Not entirely tame, it will be fun to take these guys out on the prowl for some Horde blood.

[Mmm, some Tauren hide would be great right now.]

New level cap

Just 5 new levels this time to a level cap of 85. New talents, skills and a new system called the path system which will enable you to improve your characters in a completely new way.

It’s time for a make over

As well as new areas being opened, Azeroth is getting a rather large makeover. You can enjoy checking out the new scenery on your flying mount. YES, flying mounts will be usable in Azeroth once you reach level 85 but be warned they will be very expensive and you may need additional WoW gold.
These new changes will unveil all new quests which will give you some variety if you decide to start as one of the new races.

Amazon have the pre-order available.

Don’t waste precious WoW time going to the shops, get it to your door as soon as it comes out.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Check out the teaser video:

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has added an incredible amount of new content to the game. The level cap has been increased to 70 and along with this new talents and skills were also available. There is also two new classes, the Blood Elves (Horde) and Dranei (Alliance) which will now allow Horde to access the Paladin class and Dranei the Shaman class. Both side will need these classes as the battle on to new end game instances.

Unfortunately all of your tier gear is now outstripped by most greens that you will find in the new Outland area. If the video below doesn’t get you excited, I don’t know what will.

Buy WoW Gold

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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Don’t have WoW? Get The Burning Crusade expansion in the World of Warcraft battlechest.

World of Warcraft Battle Chest

Official Trailer

World of Warcraft is an MMORPG or massive mutliplayer online role-playing game. It is focused around the story of the games Warcraft I to III which were produced by Blizzard throughout the 90′s and early 2000.

You may choose to be on Alliance (good guys) or Horde (bad dudes). Each side has four different races with different unique bonuses which range from humans to elves to orcs. Each race has access to different classes which you can then choose to play.

By far the thing that makes WoW so popular is the unending amount of content that is added to the game. The world is already huge and Blizzard update it regularly with new quests, items and places to discover. There are two expansions, The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King that have been released that also provide a massive boost to the content of the game including new races and classes. A third expansion has also been announced: Cataclysm.

Other benefits to World of Warcraft include a huge social network with 1000s of players on each server and heaps of end game adventures and challenges to complete. Due to the nature of the game it can be played and enjoyed by all ages. World of Warcraft is also supported by a large online community with tons of quest information, forums and cheap WoW gold that you can buy to save yourself time grinding and farming (10,000 gold for ~$60!).

Amazon have a 14 day trial for FREE with any other purchase.

Buy it on Amazon ($36.79 for Battlechest):

World of Warcraft

Details:

Made by: Blizzard
View: Third Person
Game Hours (levels 1-80): 100+
Game Hours (including end game and PVP): 1000+
Gameplay is online only. Monthly fee of US$15.

Here is a video of the new expansion Cataclysm to get you excited: