South Park Meets World of Warcraft

Monday, October 02, 2006
By: Ryan Ball

Comedy Central and video-game developer Blizzard Ent. have joined forces to launch the milestone 10th season of the adult animated series South Park. Airing Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 10 p.m., the season opener has Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny come to the rescue when the actions of a renegade player threaten to destroy Blizzard's award-winning, massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.

"We were excited to hear that the creators of South Park were interested in featuring World of Warcraft in the opening of their new season and we really enjoyed collaborating with them to make this happen," says Mike Morhaime, president and co-founder of Blizzard Ent. "We're looking forward to sharing the experience with our employees and our players as well when the season debuts this week."

With millions of players worldwide, World of Warcraft is one of the world's most popular MMOGs. The title has players assume the roles of legendary heroes as they develop friendships, forge alliances and compete with enemies for power and glory. Blizzard, a division of Vivendi Games,will release an expansion pack titled World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade by the end of this year. More information about the game can be found at www.worldofwarcraft.com.

South Park has remained comedy Central’s hightest rated program since its launch in 1997. The show repeats Wednesdays at 12 a.m., Thursdays at 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., Fridays at 12 a.m. and Sundays at 11 p.m..

Reader Comments

• Intergalactic : Animation Artist : O-Entertainment

  Tuesday, October 03, 2006

  Two of my buddies worked on this episode!
  
  Jeff & Dan you guys rule!
  
  For the Alliance.
  
  ...i

• Anonymous :

  Thursday, October 05, 2006

  Does anyone know what program the "in-game" graphics were animated with? Did Blizzard provide the models?

• morladim :

  Thursday, October 05, 2006

  if there is somewhere to DL the video, u must share it /cry

• Balthezar : WoW Player : my computer?

  Tuesday, October 10, 2006

  Pshhhh Alliance...For The Horde!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• your holyness : - - : - -

  Friday, October 13, 2006

  /lol thats great i was craking up when i saw your comment morladim. the /cry hilarous