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Today saw the release of The Burning Crusade, a video-game that expands the already-established and massively successful game World of WarCraft (WoW). WoW is a “massively multiplayer online role playing game”, an MMORPG, allowing players to assume the role of a character within a huge fictional world, and team up with other players to complete quests on the videogame Earth. MMORPGs are infinite in length but also infinitely progressive, which allows a player to become so immersed in the game as to treat it as a second life, and view their avatar as in some sense a projection of themselves into another place. Perhaps this accounts for the wild hysteria over the release of WoW’s expansion pack, which introduces a massive plethora of new facets and gameplay options to the mythical world, new places to travel to and new quests to challenge the daring. A whole new world was opening up, which is why gamers were queuing overnight to get their hands on a copy.

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