With the upcoming release of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King next Thursday, the 13th, Blizzard has announced that there will be many midnight openings which will start to sell the games at 12:00am local time. However, these openings, to me, don’t seem to be that special. Today, a list of the stores that would be open was released onto the World of Warcraft website, but if you look at the list, most of the shops are Tesco stores which are open 24 hours a day anyway, the only exceptions are a few HMV stores which will be opening for the occasion, the biggest one being the London HMV which will have some of the developers of the…

The Rock Band 2 software has recently become available for pre-order in many retailers, including, Game, HMV, Play.com, Zavvi and Amazon.co.uk. The game is available from £38-£50 so check out each of those sites to see which one will get you the best bargain. In my opinion, this comes rather late considering there is less than 3 weeks until it’s release on November 21st, so anyone wanting to pre-order the game will have to get their skates on. Remember though, this is just the software, the instruments are not included, the release date for the instruments is still unknown, but expected to be around the beginning of December. Also, this is just for the Xbox 360 and the other platforms…

The demo for the upcoming EA game, Mirror’s Edge, has been released on the Playstation Network and the Xbox Live Marketplace. I was unsure if I would buy this one but after playing the demo, I definitely will, from what I have seen so far, it’s a good game, great graphics and it’s something different to add to the shelf, not just a usual FPS game. The release date for Mirror’s Edge is November 14th, so get your pre-order in soon, also, if you pre-order from Game, you get a free T-Shirt.

The 26th Golden Joystick Awards is over for another year, the live viewing was aired this afternoon at 2pm. Overall, Activision walked away the big winners, they collected 4 awards for Call of Duty 4, Multiplayer Game Of The Year, PC Game Of The Year, Online Game Of The Year and Ultimate Game Of The Year. They also grabbed the One to Watch award for Call of Duty 5 and they also got the publisher of the year. Rockstar also walked away winners, they grabbed 3 awards, Developer Of The Year, Soundtrack Of The Year and Xbox Game Of The Year for their great game Grand Theft Auto4. Here is a full list of the winners for each section: The…

EA has announced that the Rock Band 2 software is being released on November 21st in the UK, exclusively to Xbox 360 for a period of time, and the standalone instruments will be available “beginning of December”. Slightly odd I thought that they are releasing the instruments a month after the software, although the current Rock Band instruments should work with this new game. The reason for having these dates separate could be to compete against it’s rival, Guitar Hero World Tour, which is also scheduled for release mid-November, so even if the Rock Band’s instruments are not yet ready for shipment, they can get the software out there to tempt people away from Activision’s Guitar Hero World Tour. So,…