Arcane Brilliance: Patch 3.3.3 PTR changes for mages

It’s time again for Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that wants to point out that while gnomes often come up…er…short…when compared to the other races, they do have one special feature that always looks larger by comparison. Their spells are huge! Wait…what did you think I was talking about?
So anyway. It’s always an exciting [...]

Wind Rider Cub and Gryphon Hatchling image gallery

Though it took longer than expected to receive them and FedEx decided it was a wise idea to throw them into the mound of snow next to my well-shoveled porch rather than placing them on the porch or (gasp!) ringing the doorbell so I could accept them myself, my house now has two new guests. [...]

WoW Insider Show live today at 3:30 PM Eastern

Every week, we broadcast live from several places worldwide to present you with the WoW Insider Show podcast — an hour’s worth of WoW community discussion, covering everything from the week’s top stories here on WoW.com to emails from our readers to what’s been going on with our particular characters in Azeroth.
Along with your hosts, [...]

Around Azeroth: Everybody wants to be a cat

Druids are the new black — or at least they will be in Cataclysm, when there’ll finally be two more races available to people who want to play a druid, but aren’t particularly keen on being a purple, pointy-eared freak or an ungainly furry. (*Ducks incoming flames.*) Kristy-Leigh loves druids so much that she’ll even [...]

WRUP: What you’d like to see next edition

It’s the weekend again — which can only mean it’s time for an escape from the tedious grind of the working week — to replace it with the tedious grind of our favorite video games! For us, you might assume our favorite game is World of Warcraft, but the team is all over the map [...]

Breakfast Topic: Your favorite news from the Twitter dev chat

Like its last incarnation, the latest Q&A from WoW developers over Twitter was full of some great information, both about the current expansion and what’s coming next with Cataclysm. Even better, you didn’t even need to be on Twitter to read it, for those still hemming and hawing over social networking being a big fad [...]

The Daily Quest: PvP edition

Here at WoW.com we’re on a Daily Quest (which we try to do every day, honest) to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Is there a story out there we ought to link or a blog we ought to follow? Just leave us a comment and you may see [...]

The Daily Blues

Each day WoW.com will take you through all the blue posts and other Blizzard news from around the internet. From Ghostcrawler’s latest posts to the lowdown on StarCraft II and Diablo III, we’ll keep you informed.
Be sure to check out the latest Twitter developer chat for more blue comments about the current game and [...]

Western Plaguelands not so plagued anymore in Cataclysm

We addressed the implication that the Alliance might be retaking some lost lands in Cataclysm thanks to some mutterings by blues on the official forums. Now we’ve got confirmation from the latest Twitter dev chat that while Eastern Plaguelands will still be a hellhole, Western Plaguelands will be free of the plague when the expansion [...]

WoW developer Twitter chat transcript, sorted by category

The World of Warcraft Twitter developer chat is now done, and we’ve compiled the list of answers for you. Answers are sorted into categories, with the latest answer appearing at the top of the category. Much like the last twitter developer chat, this one is full of new information that will be affecting everyone in [...]