WoW Moviewatch: WoW Night featuring Wick & Sharm

WoW Night featuring WIck and Sharm is a new music video from Yumfries. (Whenever I see that name, I always think “Yummm, fries!” I’m not sure if that’s the point of the name, though, so I always feel guilty for it.)
This isn’t really my kind of music, so I feel unable to adequately [...]

Chinese WoW provider The9 faces bankruptcy in wake of Wrath woes

Filed under: News items, Expansions, Wrath of the Lich King

We told you a few days back that Wrath of the Lich King has had a tough time getting approved in China due to the government’s strict censorship laws, but now there’s even more bad news for Chinese WoW players. As Sister site Massively reports, The9 [...]

IgoMir 2009: More Cataclysm guild leveling details

IgoMir is Russia’s largest gaming convention — sort of an Eastern European Electronic Entertainment Expo (E5?) — and Blizzard made an appearance there this week, showing off World of Warcraft: Cataclysm and Starcraft II. Besides the demo booths, visitors could look forward to panels with J. Allen Brack (the current WoW head honcho) and Chris [...]

WoW.com welcomes artist Kelly Aarons

WoW.com is pleased to announce a new and unique addition to our staff — Kelly Aarons of WoW, Eh? fame!
Kelly will be joining us each Tuesday morning posting a new comic, in much of the same style as WoW, Eh. Kelly produces some great hand-drawn art, and will no doubt give everyone something to look [...]

Around Azeroth: Across the wasteland

Now that players can jump directly into Burning Crusade content at level 58, Silithus has got to be one of the least-visited places in Azeroth. Long, painful quest lines intended for levels 57+? Random scorpion and worm attacks? Oh, and don’t forget the joy of dying in the underground hives and trying to find a [...]

Forum Post of the Day: WoW is ruined (again!)

Yeah, here at the WoW.com high-rise, we were all a little surprised by the announcement of the Pet Store and its microtransactionalized non-combat pets — but seriously, it’s not that big a deal, people. Hitch your bandwagons to that slippery slope fallacy all you want, but pets offer no plausible in-game advantage. The whole experience [...]

Breakfast Topic: How far would you let WoW microtransactions go?

One of the hottest topics in the past week was Blizzard’s foray into the microtransactions game. By announcing the Blizzard pet store, World of Warcraft had officially come on par with other MMOs and online games that sold in-game items for real world money. Our informal survey showed that views on the move were officially [...]

We Have a Tabard: A little help from my friends

The We Have a Tabard series is designed to help guild leaders, officers, members achieve their goals to maximize their cooperative experience.
I’m relatively new to leading a raiding guild. I’ve been working on building and training my team for about six months. I’ve been leading the recruiting and correcting members, managing raids, and in general [...]

All the World’s a Stage: How to bring Warhammer’s "Tome of Knowledge" to WoW

All the World’s a Stage, and all the orcs and humans merely players. They have their stories and their characters; and one player in his time plays many roles.
Some time ago, I had my first look at Warhammer Online, and wondered if that game treated roleplaying any differently from World of Warcraft. I wrote at [...]

[1.Local]: Belting it out

Reader comments — ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week.
In last week’s [1.Local], we snarked around a bit about the most common “mistaken identity” emails we receive on the WoW.com news [...]