While we in the US still have to wait a few more hours before stores officially start selling Wrath of the Lich King, Blizzard has now opened up the floodgates on their servers and allowed folks who purchased the World of Warcraft expansion in Europe to sign onto their servers and begin playing the expansion.

Our sister web site WoW Insider has the scoop of the Lich King launch which will be joined at midnight on the east coast later tonight in the US with special midnight launch events all over the nation planned. Of course your should consider WoW Insider to be your the number one source for anything and everything about the launch of Wrath of the Lich King, which at least one analyst claims will sell as many as 5 million copies worldwide in the first month.