Marine Pet in World of Warcraft

Tickets for BlizzCon 2009 go on sale this Saturday and for those of you who will be attending Blizzard Entertainment's latest fan gathering you will be getting some cool extra stuff. One of these items was revealed today; a new in-game pet for anyone who plays Blizzard's MMO title World of Warcraft.

This year's in-game pet is titled Grunty the murloc marine and its description is clearly a nod to Blizzard's upcoming RTS game StarCraft II: "This tiny terror is fully armored and comes equipped with a gauss rifle, which he'll occasionally fire into the air to make sure no invisible spacecraft are swooping in to attack." If you can't make BlizzCon 2009 on August 21-22 in Anaheim, California you can still get Grunty for your World of Warcraft chararacter by purchasing the BlizzCon DirectTV pay-per-view event.