World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft Patch 3.3 Preview

Calling it “the most ambitious patch since 3.0”, Ten Ton Hammer brings us a two-page synopsis of what we should expect from Blizzard’s v3.3 update for World of Warcraft. The focal point of the patch, and ultimately of the entire…

World of Warcraft Shut Down in China

GameSpot brings word that China’s General Administration of Press and Publication has revoked NetEase’s permit to operate Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, citing “gross violations” of Chinese law. Regulators reportedly claimed NetEase, which landed the localization contract for the massively multiplayer…

BlizzCast Episode 11

Blizzard Entertainment has released an eleventh BlizzCast episode, with its sole focus being a roundtable discussion with several of the team members that played crucial roles in making this year’s BlizzCon a success. Rob: The audience interaction really adds a…

World of Warcraft New Dungeon System Detailed

An overhauled dungeon system is being implemented into World of Warcraft in the upcoming content patch, and Blizzard has issued a community update detailing some of the changes. The new system will now work to match at least one experienced…

World of Warcraft Race Change Service Goes Live

Blizzard Entertainment has launched their $25-a-pop “race change service”, which does exactly as its name implies – it allows you to pay to have your character’s race changed (as long as the new race is compatible with your class). If…

World of Warcraft Twitter Q&A

Blizzard recently fielded a large batch of Twitter-submitted questions about World of Warcraft and its expansions, and have posted them all (with answers) on the game’s official forums. A sampling: Q: With Cataclysm revisiting the old world, any plan to…

The Negative Impact of World of Warcraft Gold Buying

Although we’ve always known that it was frowned upon (and grounds for a permanent ban), it wasn’t until late yesterday that Blizzard Entertainment published an editorial outlining the negative impacts that gold and power-leveling services have on World of Warcraft. What many people…

Blizzard Entertainment Offices Photo Gallery

The folks over at blog Web of Entertainment have compiled over a hundred photographs that have been taken of Blizzard Entertainment’s offices during various press tours.  We’ve seen some of them before, but that’s OK – they’re worth looking at…

World of Warcraft AGDC Keynote Video

MMORPG.com has uploaded a video of the entire 56-minute World of Warcraft keynote presentation given by Blizzard’s Frank Pearce and J. Allen Brack during this year’s Austin Game Developers Conference. If you’re interested in learning everything you can about the company’s…

World of Warcraft Battle.net Conversion Announced

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that current World of Warcraft players are required to migrate their existing account over to Battle.net by November 11th in order to take advantage of their newly revised community portal. A few months ago, we unveiled…