Wrath of the Lich King, finally comes out tomorrow.It means many of you will have exhilarating weeks and sleepless nights, missed classes and late homework, "sick" days from work, stacks of pizza boxes, soda-can mountains, and telling your spouse you'll be down to dinner in "just a few more minutes!" while remaining inert in your desk chair until supper's just a collection of refrigerated tupperware containers.

Seriously. Hundreds if not thousands of gamers are expected to line up tonight to get their hands on early copies. These people are hardcore. Dedicated. Grizzled. They tend to own specialty gear like those funky keyboards with the World of Warcraft logo etched into the colorful overlay above painted pictures of voluptuous elves and surly, jut-jawed orcs. They read the novels, collect the comic books, and pore over the strategy and atlas guides relishing the typos and out-and-out errors for talking points on the publisher's massively trafficked forums.

"GameStop expects World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King to be one of the biggest launches of the holiday season," said Bob McKenzie, senior vice president of merchandising for GameStop earlier this week. "In fact, nationwide we are celebrating the release with GameStop 'Lunar Fests' at over 3,000 of our stores at midnight on November 13, so players can purchase the expansion and start exploring the new content right away."