Ever since the news broke at Blizzcon last year that the Blood Elves, one of the new races in the forthcoming World of Warcraft expansion pack, The Burning Crusade, would side with the Horde the question of what race will join the Alliance has been the subject of many forums and reports to almost hysterical proportions.

The latest candidate appears to be those incomprehensible scaly fishermen, Murlocs, at least according to the forums of Warcraft site WoW Insider where a so-called 'screen grab' of a Murloc in the character select screen has appeared. Blizzard are of course yet to move on making an announcement so there's no way of telling whether Murlocs will side with the Alliance in the forthcoming expansion, but there has been suggestions from within WoW publisher VU Games that cast doubt on the images such as the addition of The Burning Crusade logo on the character selection page, which isn't expected to feature in the final release.

Hopefully Blizzard will spill the beans soon (you never know what's going to be said at E3) and all the flaming that seems to be going on amongst some WoW devotees will go away.

We'll have more news shortly...