April fools

[Banquo's Ghost]

Blizzard Entertainment announced that the new Alliance race for their upcoming World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade will be Wisps. They possess the radical ability to detonate themselves in order to strengthen their fellow players or weaken enemies. Due to the fact that the player would be permanently dead after doing this, many players claim that this is a joke, considering the news was released on March 31 - the day before April Fool's Day. It should be noted that on the time of release, it was in the closing minutes of March 31st for the European customers.

Is that for real? Maybe I need a sense of humour transplant, but I would have considered that in very poor taste even as an April 1st prank. Suicide bombing is too serious, current and has hurt too many people to be lampooned by a game company.

By the way, my favourite was here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/01/gwot_cha/ Conspiracy to allow Bush a third term - nearly posted it here