Blizzard has posted a brand new Burning Crusade mini site, and it's pretty spiffy. After a quick intro (how can I have missed that the Blood Elf mount is now called the "Hawkstrider"? What was wrong with the other name, Co-- ohhh, I see.), the music starts and you can enter the lush world of... a flash website.

There's not much news in it, if you've been paying attention to BC previews at all. It runs you quickly through all the new content-- flying mounts, the new jewelcrafting profession, the new races, Arena PVP, and the new world of Outland, and even has a few good writeups of the different dungeons and factions you'll see in Outland. Overall, nothing really new, but there's good music throughout, and it's easy to check out. If you're already excited for BC (and how could you not be?), this will only add to the trembling in expectation.

Oh, almost forgot-- there's a secret minigame hidden among all the content. Poke around, if you like-- Blizzard has hidden some secret clicks in there that allow you to eventually access top secret content. It's not hard to figure out, but if you really don't want to bother with it, we'll even provide you with a walkthrough after the jump.


In the Blood Elves section of "New Races," click the quest guy and solve a jigsaw puzzle.

Click the dragon in the "New World" section for a matching puzzle.

Click the jewel in the lower right in the "Jewelcrafting" section to answer a trivia quiz (Curse you, Blizzard, for tempting us yet again with your Starcraft, and your Pandaren!).

Click the goblin on the "Arena PVP" page to fire arrows at a Druid (definitely my favorite).

Finally, click the far Nether Drake on the "Nether Drakes" page to play the most annoying game-- finding five differences in the paintings. Then move all your jewels to access the top secret content.

Ok, we'll tell you what it is: a few wallpapers and an mp3 file, supposedly music played in Silvermoon City. In fact, we'll even save you the trouble of playing the game-- the best wallpaper of the bunch is right here. If you want the other wallpapers, other sizes of them, or to hear the mp3, you'll have to play the game yourself. Cheater!

Tags: bloodelves, burningcrusade, draenei, expansion, hawkstrider, jewelcrafting, minisite, outland

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