Rolling restarts for Tuesday, March 3rd

Filed under: Realm News, Realm Status
Tomorrow’s downtime should be minimal, with only rolling restarts announced for the morning starting at 5:00 AM PST. Realms should be down, they say, no longer than 15 minutes, so hopefully that will prove true!
Maintenance or not, WoW Insider will be here all day as usual. Should something go wrong [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Illegal Danish 3 Prelude

Adroit machinima fans are probably already aware that Myndflame has been diligently working on the third installment Illegal Danish. The premise of this new Illegal Danish is that Van Kraken has created his ultimate brew, the Flask of Ten Thousand Souls. The flask is so powerful that only by combining it with the power of [...]

Gaikai promises to stream PC games like WoW straight to your browser

David Perry is one of those game developers who doesn’t do anything small — he started out with a company called Shiny Entertainment, responsible for great old games like Earthworm Jim, MDK, Messiah, and the Enter the Matrix movie tie-in game, and nowadays he’s moved on to the MMO market, where he’s developed all kinds [...]

Around Azeroth: Eyes of the beholder

No one denies that trolls are naturally cannibalistic, or that they seem to spend half their time making war on other troll tribes. So how did they get to be one of the most populous races in Azeroth? Our submitter Fakawot accidentally discovered the answer to this question when fighting Broggok in Hellfire Citadel. The [...]

One Boss Leaves: Moorabi outgores Trollgore

Two Bosses Enter … but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW.com’s series of fantasy death matches. This season’s bosses come from the five-man instances of Wrath of the Lich King.
It was a bloody job, but someone had to do it – and that someone was Moorabi. The High Prophet of Man’toth made a mammoth mess [...]

Breakfast Topic: World of Dancecraft

New tier sets and Arena gear are cool, new 5-man content is awesome, and a new Battleground is almost too good to be true. We’re being hit with a flurry of new content it’s easy to forget that Blizzard still has to introduce those new dances they teased us with before Wrath of the Lich [...]

Tweetcraft lets you tweet from Warcraft

Twitter is all the rage right now — it’s the easiest, quickest way to let anyone interested know what you’re up to, and because it’s so popular, it’s also no surprise that we’ve seen quite a few Twitter and World of Warcraft mashup apps. wowTwitter is a separate update service just for news about your [...]

The Queue: Genn, you’re such a jerk

Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Lore, The Queue
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.
Be warned that the very end of today’s edition of The Queue contains minor spoilers for the upcoming [...]

Battle.net registration now online in China

World of Warcraft has, as you have probably heard, been offline in China for a while now. Even though The9 originally said they’d transfer over their servers to NetEase, they later decided to fight it out, leaving WoW offline for a matter of weeks. And it isn’t quite up yet, but they’re getting [...]

Blizzard gives sneak peek at Tier 9

Blizzard put up a preview of a couple of Tier 9 sets over at the Under Development section of the official website, and they look pretty interesting. As previously suspected, the Tier 9 armor sets seem to share visual characteristics with the same armor class. In the examples that Blizzard shows, the Horde Shaman and [...]