15 Minutes of Fame: Badger Badger Badger

Filed under: Features, Interviews, 15 Minutes of Fame

15 Minutes of Fame is our look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes - from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you’d like to hear more about.
… mushroom, mushroom. So why have [...]

3 day credit for NA, EU customers

Filed under: Realm News, Blizzard

When patch 3.0.2 hit, we had a very long maintenance, shading towards 24 hours for some realms. And since then we haven’t always had the best of realm stability; I know my own realm has had plenty of restarts, downed instance servers, and lag spikes in the past few weeks. It [...]

Can Blizzard fix all their launch problems in Wrath?

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Expansions, Raiding, Leveling, Wrath of the Lich King
Our good friend Relmstein (who I was able to finally meet in person at BlizzCon this year) is back to blogging about World of Warcraft, even though he was on a WAR trip for a while there. But [...]

Slorkuz tells you how to win Arathi Basin

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich King, Battlegrounds
I have to admit, I’ve been giving Arathi Basin short shrift lately — while I’m having a great time hitting all the solo achievements (just got my Delicious Chocolate Cake the other day, and Mr. Pinchy is my next [...]

The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Itemization in Wrath part four

Filed under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Expansions, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors, Wrath of the Lich King
No Totem Talk today because I’m going on a raid tonight as an elemental shaman and so I don’t want to make my big ‘elemental shaman’s in 3.0.2′ post until after that. Instead, we [...]

World of WarCrafts: Custom Bows

Filed under: World of WarCrafts
Every Thursday, Shelbi Roach of The Bronze Kettle guides you in creating WoW-inspired crafts using real world mats with World of WarCrafts.While World of Warcraft may be a MMORPG primarily played by men, there are a few of us made of sugar and spice and all that’s nice, who fancy frilly [...]

More information about the Wrath of the Lich King midnight launch

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, Blizzard, Expansions, Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King

Blizzplanet’s got the deets on a Future Shop midnight launch going on in Canada (eh?), so plans of Wrath midnight launch events are starting to sneak out into the world. Blizzard will be doing their usual schtick in Los Angeles, and [...]

Send us your Halloween costumes!

Filed under: Rogue, Events, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, BlizzCon

Dressing up like something WoW-related for Halloween this year? Take a picture and send it to our tips line, because we’d love to see it! Whether you nabbed one of Blizzard’s official costumes, worked a long time on a Tauren costume, or are just gluing some [...]

Blizzard announces official Wrath midnight launches

Filed under: Events, Blizzard, News items, Expansions
If you’re interested in getting Wrath of the Lich King at a midnight launch with Blizzard employees present to sign your copy and discuss the game, Blizzard will be holding officlal midnight parties around the globe. For the moment, it looks like Amsterdam, Anaheim, Austin, Berlin, London, Madrid, Mexico [...]

Official class forums to be replaced with role forums

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Forums
Want to hear something frightening? There will be no more class forums. Nethaera announced it a bit earlier on the official forums, and I’m still not sure what to think. They’re breaking down the class forums and replacing them with role forums: Tanking, Healing, and Damage Dealing. For those [...]