WoW.com’s Weekly Comic: Byron, the Tauren Rogue

Welcome to another edition of the WoW.com Weekly Comic, Byron the Tauren Rogue!
Gruuka was taken down in cold blood (because that’s what rogues do), and now Evi is relishing in her minor victory (as rogues do). I wonder if Byron will take any initiative and fight back — because, well, that’s just what rogues do. [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Icecrown Gunship Battle: Now in Real Life!

The creation of WoW movies — whether it is machinima or live-action — stems from the author’s love of game, cinema, or just raw creation. It takes a lot of love to create a WoW movie. And sometimes, just sometimes, you manage to do something unique. Sometimes, you can do something so completely [...]

The Queue: Hell, it’s about time

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky will be your host today.
I really couldn’t do The Queue today without talking about StarCraft II. It really is about time that it’s released. The original StarCraft cam out on March 31, [...]

Enter to win a Blazing Hippogryph and other loot

Yes, you read that title correctly! Courtesy of the ever-generous WoWTCGLoot.com, WoW.com will be giving away an assortment of prizes for the next week, including a Blazing Hippogryph. The full assortment of prizes includes:

One Blazing Hippogryph
Two Instant Statue Pedestals
Three Landro’s Gift Boxes

The contest begins immediately and ends Monday, Aug. 2 at 11:59 p.m ET. On [...]

Around Azeroth Beta Edition: Give war a chance

The horror … the horror. Beta tester Dendaris of <Empire> on Eldre’Thalas sent in this screenshot with a bloodstained note attached: “Having slain a dwarven paratrooper, my goblin warrior took a moment to survey the frantic battlefield around him. The fiery sunset served as the perfect backdrop for the Alliance planes flying overhead.”

Gallery: Around [...]

The Guild’s new music video: Game On

The Guild has released a new music video, which was originally debuted at San Diego Comic-Con last week. This time, they’ve jumped from the virtual scene into the Bollywood scene. Zaboo (Sandeep Parikh) leads a song in which he tries to convince Codex (Felicia Day) to put down her book and jump into the [...]

Breakfast Topic: What’s your story?

This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the Aol guest writer program that brings your words to WoW.com.
I have a confession: I am not a roleplayer, yet I feel the need to create a backstory for every single one of my characters, from the mighty main to the lowly banker alt who [...]

Tuesday Morning Post: Suspect timing edition

Happy Tuesday Morning, everyone! In what may or may not be a mea culpa for the massive amount of downtime, both expected and unexpected, last week, Blizzard’s announced that there will be no downtime this morning. That’s right, we won’t even get rolling restarts. Now, usually I’d be pretty grateful for this. It’s always nice [...]

Cataclysm screenshot of the day

The latest Cataclysm screenshot from Blizzard is shown above. This is clearly a goblin harbor, which makes it about the most awesome place on the planet.
If you’ve missed any of the previous Cataclysm screenshots of the day or you want to see a high-res version of today’s image, check out the gallery below.

Gallery: [...]

The Daily Quest: Cataclysmic

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.

Either you’re in the beta or you’re not — but regardless of whether or not you’ve gotten the golden ticket (so to speak), there’s still plenty to [...]