Let me introduce my new persona... (Anonymous)

Spanx. The Troll Shaman.

Yes, I have joined the ranks of the MMORPG afficionado. I am playing World of Warcraft. I am a sad geeky loser with no.... wait a minute. I'm married. I have a life. Phew.

MMORPG's are a lot like work. You don't so much play as grind away, killing 47 pigs to scrap together some leather to make a pair of shoes out of that give you 3+ armour power. However, with World of Warcraft, Blizzard have taken this rather bog-standard gameplay and placed it in to a wonderfully huge, consistent and often breathtaking world of hills, meadows, forests and mountains that compells you to play. And once you reach a certain level of proficiency with the myriad spells, weapons, controls and lingo that makes up the experience, teaming up with people to go "questing" together is a fantastic feeling. Marching across the landscape slaying poor NPC's (non-player characters) with 4 mates in toe is very very cool.

My only concern is that once you've seen the whole world, what next? I'm sure Blizzard will use my £9 per month (!!!) subscription fee to provide new content, but will that be enough? Blizzard will be responsible for many hours of lost time - I just hope I don't regret it in six month's time.

P.S. I'll probably post some little entries about my exploits in the game, possibly even with some pictures! Lucky readers...