April Fools day always seems to take the breath out of the news of the week it lands on, and this year is no different. However, if you scrape the bottom of the barrel hard enough, you’re bound to find something.

That’s what I’m here for! This week: The first developer to make a graphical MMO goes under, Blizzard knows how to do April Fools, and the folks over at Realtime Worlds snag a cool $50 million in funding.

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Yesterday was patch day in Azeroth, kiddos. While that normally isn’t much of an occassion, 2.4 is something special to many WoW players. Not because of any features or changes made to the game, no. 2.4 is the final major patch leading up to the release of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

Excited yet? You should be. Follow me over the jump, to get my impressions on the changes.

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Source: WoW.Curse.com

Can a game like WoW be free? The rumor has it that in Red China they are thinking about giving it a shot. The 9, the publisher in charge of WoW China is in talks with Blizzard about making WoW free-to-play. That’s right , communism is finally putting another notch in the positive column, right next to the Che Guevara tee shirts at Hot Topic.

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by Matt Schmidt

Source: Blizzard

Blizzard, the official sponsor of Orcs Anonymous, has revealed their latest expansion for the ever-expanding World of Warcraft universe: Wrath of the Lich King. We at Sarcastic Gamer are having one small problem. How the hell do you pronounce it?

Wrath of the Leech King?
Wrath of the Licking?
Lith King? Litch King?
Like King?
Like, totally, King?
The Burning Crusade 2?
Everquest?

I’m so confused.

How do you pronounce it? Head over to our FORUMS and sound off!

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