I spent last night driving round the various shops and Supermarkets in my local area looking for a copy of the new World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King.

My main charcater, Koneko (a Gnome Warlock) has just reached level 70 so I wanted the expansion to open up a greater level range as much as I wnated new content (I still haven`t gone through all the regions in Burning Crusade yet).

But could I find a copy anywahere? No. Actually that`s a slight lie - my local branch of Morrisons had it for the bargain price of £30, which is £5 over the RRP. Funilly enough I decided not to give them my business.

I could have bought online for £18 but, as usual, was too desperate to get a copy in my hands. As I had the day off work I popped into town expecting to pay RRP from the usual big retailers but found it for £20 in HMV which was pretty good in my opinion. A £2 premium to get it in mynhands from a bricks and mortar retailer there and then seemed like a pretty good compromise to me. And thus I bought it there and then. Well done HMV (not often I`ll say that).

I didn`t actually get to play it until later in the evening today as I spent most of the day helping build the roof to a summerhouse for my mum (yes, I know it`s almost winter). Plus the game took a while to install, update, patch etc. And even then there was a half hour queue to get onto the server as it was full!