El’s Anglin’ in Dalaran

Filed under: Fishing, Analysis / Opinion, Wrath of the Lich King
El’s Extreme Anglin’ recently posted a fun little video previewing Fishing in Wrath of the Lich King. Specifically, in Dalaran. I have no idea what draws people (including myself) to such a boring profession, but this video shows a bit of what Blizzard has [...]

WoWTCGLoot giving away more TCG loot

Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Contests
Our friends at WoWTCGLoot just can’t stop being generous with all of that loot — to celebrate the release of six (!) new tabards from Upper Deck, they’re giving away twelve of them in total. To sign up for the contest, all you’ve got [...]

Blizzard helps host art show at Laguna College of Art and Design

Filed under: Events, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Fan art

The Laguna College of Art and Design has worked pretty closely with Blizzard in the past — some of Blizzard’s employees are on faculty there, and they’ve sent artists over to work with students before. They’ve also put on art shows there, and this [...]

Ask a Beta Tester: Protection Warriors, Death Knight DPS, and more

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King

Welcome back to Ask a Beta Tester, with even more passenger mount questions! Don’t worry, though. It didn’t devour our entire column today. We have plenty more for you! For example, Sorano’s question…
What I’d like to know his exactly how much protection warrior dps [...]

SK Gaming’s Arena Ranking system revamped

Filed under: Fan stuff, PvP, Classes, Battlegrounds, Arena
SK Gaming sends word that they’ve updated their Arena Ranking system — if you want to find out who the best players or teams are on your Region, Battleground or Realm, this is the place to go. You can see the top player or team rankings separately, [...]

Blizzard’s black ops title, and why it’s a long way off

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Blizzard

Our good friends at BigDownload have just posted a nice in-depth feature about all the “black ops” PC games being worked on — that is, games that are being developed in secret by developers who haven’t yet officially announced them. There are quite a few would-be WoW competitors [...]

Officers’ Quarters: Friends or content

Filed under: (Guild Leadership) Officers’ Quarters
Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
It’s the constant dilemma of the casual guild member. You love the people in the guild, but you know you’re going to miss all or most of the raiding experience. It’s a particularly poignant [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Drop of Blood: The Collection Pt. 1

Filed under: Machinima, Humor, WoW Moviewatch
Drop of Blood: The Collection Pt. 1 is a twin set of parodies and it’s the first machinima by a 15-year-old kid named Morten from Denmark. He’s remade the openings of the old Spider-Man and Scooby-Doo cartoons set in Azeroth, including setting them to music of The Simpsons take-off for [...]

Enter to win a custom WoW t-shirt from SwagDog.com and WoW Insider

Filed under: Events, Fan stuff, Contests, Fan art

We announced a while back that SwagDog.com was teaming up with Blizzard to offer some custom-made WoW guild t-shirts, and now their site is apparently open for business — you can put your guild name and tabard on a t-shirt along with your character name and realm, to [...]

Blizzard leaning toward AE Tanking for all

Filed under: Druid, Paladin, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, News items, Instances, Expansions, Raiding, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King
You may recall earlier yesterday that we reported on Thunder Clap losing its target limit, thus quite suddenly making Warriors have a very good chance of being viable AE tanks. One thing that you might have [...]