We all knew it was going to sell well, and if anything was going to set a new record for pc game sales it was going to be Wrath of the Lich King. Blizzard has announced that second of World of Warcraft expansion racked up 2.8 million sales worldwide in its first 24 hours on release. This makes it the …

I don't really know what to say about stories like this anymore... You would think that somewhere deep down inside the mind of gamers, a small bit of logic would kick in and tell you that playing a game for 27 hours solid is probably not very good for your health. This unfortunately was not the case with 15 year Swedish old World of Warcraft player who was keen to give his new "Wrath of the Lich King" expansion a good go when his body decided to have epileptic seizures instead. I found it quite funny to read that "Understandably, the boy's father plans to place limits on the amount of time his son can play videogames after he makes a full recovery." Did it have to come to seizures for the parent to realise that letting a 15 year old play for 27 hours was a really bad idea? Nice job parent and now videogames are going to take the fall for it, not you.

If you were worried that the zombie apocalypse was all Blizzard had up their sleeves for the launch of World of Warcraft’s Wrath of the Lich King expansion, then you may want to log in right about now. Arthas — the titular Lich King — is currently inflicting his wrath upon the world of Azeroth, starting with the Horde capital …

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You may remember that we previously reported on Jane Wells from CNBC posting up an article about how her "videogame expert" son was trading in his Xbox 360 to buy a PS3 after being impressed by the Sony E3 Presentation. Just a couple of months later it seems that her expert of a son feels like he made a mistake. It's not like we really care too much about what one woman's son is up to, but this whole thing has turned into quite a soap opera.... In an interesting turn, it seems that her son now misses all of his friends on Xbox Live and has decided to trade his PS3 back in for another Xbox 360, even though while standing in line, his friend was complaining about his own 360 giving him issues now that it's out of warranty. The trade-in value for the PS3 was not enough to make up the amount necessary for a new Xbox 360, so to get it, the son made a bit of a plan. Check this out, you won't believe what he did: How did my son come up with the difference between the trade-in price and the new Xbox? He made $300 this weekend selling his decked-out World of Warcraft character on eBay.... Although I find this point quite intriguing, I will leave it for another day and just stick to the point here. Jane Wells goes on to list a couple of lessons that have been learned from this entire experience: 1- the gaming experience is more than a few games and cool graphics.... The moral of this story is actually pretty easy to figure out: Do whatever works for you. This kid realised that the Xbox 360 was the best option for him, so he went back to it. He realised that it's not necessarily about what the console offers in terms of technology, it depends on what brings you the most joy to your own life. If all of your friends own PS3's and play online every night you would be a bit of a fool to buy an Xbox 360 and play by yourself when you could be jamming some online games with your buddies. Let's hope that this is the last that we hear from Jane Wells and her son's amazing console saga. Now if you will excuse me, I need to go and create a World of Warcraft character, I'm going to be rich.