In just a little over three days, the continent of Northrend will open up for excited World of Warcraft players, with new races, new monsters, and new places to go. One such place is the new instance, Utgarde Keep, which contains content for 70's and 80's. Of course, the only real problem for newcomers to this frozen land is getting there without getting chewed up and spit out first. Today's friendly One Shots reminder of that comes to us courtesy of Deadend, who snapped this picture of a Storm Giant and a bunch of Shoveltusks that will be waiting to gang up on characters. Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate for those who think they'll charge straight to Utgarde without any fighting at all. (Unless, of course, your server is insanely heavily populated, everyone's destroyed everything in the zone by the time you've logged in and your option is standing around waiting on repops.)

We know there have to be some people out there who were in the Wrath beta, so we're sending out a call to you today! You've got screenshots, and we want them. Bundle those up and email them to us here at oneshots AT massively DOT com along with your name and a quick description. After all, once the game releases, those beta shots will be just like everyone else's -- send them while they're still fairly unique!

The frozen expanse of World of Warcraft's new area Northrend will be open to us in a matter of days. Swarms of players who have not seen this strange land first-hand will be set free to kill all manner of new monsters and check out all manner of new quests. (This is, of course, assuming you're not planning onstarting a Death Knight immediately and ignoring Northrend until you get there on your DK.) With the beta closed down, we thought it would be nice to remember it via today's World of Warcraft One Shots sent in to us from Deadend -- this lovely image of the moon shining through the aurora over a foreboding, misty forest.

Were you in the Wrath of the Lich King beta? Perhaps you're just a beta fiend and have screenshots of other betas (not under NDA, please) that you'd like to share with us -- especially if you'd like to show how much the game has grown. If you've got screenshots and tales to tell, we want to hear from you! Send those to us here at oneshots AT massively DOT com along with your name, and a quick description. We'll post them out here for everyone else to check out.

Today we'd like to introduce you to the Northrend's bigger, badder version of the Fel Reaver, courtesy of this awesome screenshot sent in to us by Deadend, who is playing on the Northrend server in the Wrath of the Lich King beta. This great big fellow is called a Storm Giant, and you can generally find them stomping around in places like Howling Fjord. To give you a better frame of reference, WoWwiki states that if you were to put a Fel Reaver up next to a Storm Giant, the Fel Reaver would only come as high as the Storm Giant's chest. As you can imagine, this means you're likely to be toejam that much faster when you first jump into Wrath. Squish!

Are you one of the legion who are still playing World of Warcraft? Have you been exploring lots of cool things that are in the Wrath of the Lich King beta? If so, we'd love to see some of the content you've been experiencing. Just send those screenshots to us with your name/server/guild and a quick note as to what we're seeing. We'll put them up here for the rest of the world to "ooh" and "aaah" over.