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World of Warcraft – Patch 4.3, the final patch of Cataclysm

Christen McGregor, Dec 5th 2011 Discuss [6]

Every Tuesday is an important day for those involved in World of Warcraft. That is because Tuesdays are known as "patch days". When Tuesday hits players can either expect in-game content to be fixed or added. Well, for us World of Warcraft players, last week's patch was the "big" one. Patch 4.3 named "Hour of Twilight", will be the last one for the latest expansion, Cataclysm. Read The Full Story

World of Warcraft introduces playable panda race – for real, this time

Chris Burns, Oct 21st 2011 Discuss [4]

It's been several years now since Blizzard Entertainment played an April Fool's prank on its World of Warcraft base by saying the fifth race in the game would be panda-humanoid in flavor - today we find that in their newest WoW expansion, it's no joke. There's a whole new expansion for World of Warcraft coming out soon by the name of "Mists of Pandaria." This race of fuzzy lovable killers has since the first "JK" announcement made several appearances in both WoW and StarCraft II, and both story characters and a playable Monk class will be coming with this next expansion pack. Read The Full Story

Prisoners in China forced into World of Warcraft gold farming

Shane McGlaun, May 26th 2011 Discuss [6]

Prison is a very bad place to wind up if you break the law in the US or the UK. Prison is an even worse place to wind up in some countries like China. Prisoners in Chinese labor camps are forced to do all sorts of things like break rocks in coalmines and dig trenches during the day. At night prisoners then spend their time playing World of Warcraft, gold farming for the "prison bosses" to sell for real world money. The revelation comes from a former prison guard named Liu Dali. Read The Full Story

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm 10-Day Free Trial Released

Chris Burns, Dec 17th 2010 Discuss [5]

So you're on the fence on deciding weather you'd like to upgrade your World of Warcraft to the Cataclysm with the giant dragon and the fire and the crazy wild awesomeness? Perhaps you'd like to give it a whirl for about 10 days while you think about if you'd like to have it forever? Now you can do just that. Today Battle.net and Blizzard give you a completely free 10 day trial period (similar to some other older games they've still got lying around) during which you can play the game in its fullness. After that, probably you'll be so WoWed that you'll need to Cataclysm your WoW to stay WoWed enough to WoW forever. Read The Full Story

Wiimote hacks: WoW control & self-balancing robot

Chris Davies, Apr 22nd 2009 Discuss [0]

It must be a week for Wiimote hacks, as there are two interesting implementations of Nintendo's wireless motion-sensitive controller on offer today. First up comes a hack using DarwiinRemote, that allows you to play World of Warcraft using the Wiimote; then, there's a self-balancing robot made of LEGO NXT, that can be remotely controlled with it. Video demos of both projects after the cut Read The Full Story

World of Warcraft to keep expanding, says Blizzard CEO

Brenda Stokes, Nov 19th 2008 Discuss [0]

Even though we just saw the release of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion to the World of Warcraft, there is already talk about what is to come in the future. In short, we should all expect many more expansion packs for the popular game in the coming years. Read The Full Story

Limited Edition World of Warcraft Keyboard makes playing easier

Brenda Stokes, Nov 13th 2008 Discuss [0]

If you play World of Warcraft, you're probably already pretty excited that the Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack came out today. But now you can amp up your gaming efforts even more with the Limited Edition World of Warcraft Keyboard. Actually, it's called the SteelSeries Zboard Limited-Edition Wrath of the Lich King Bundle with Zboard Keyboard, Keyset, and Standard QWERTY Keyset. Yeah, WoW keyboard sounds better to us, too. Read The Full Story

World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King expansion now available

Brenda Stokes, Nov 13th 2008 Discuss [0]

It's been long awaited but now avid WoW fans can get their hands on the latest expansion to the World of Warcraft--the Wrath of the Lich King. And even though you could buy the physical copy of the game at retailers prior to today, Blizzard officially launched the expansion pack today. Read The Full Story

World of Warcraft passes the 11 million subscriber mark

Brenda Stokes, Oct 29th 2008 Discuss [0]

Wow. Just wow. I know I could make a WoW pun or something out of that but I won't. In fact, I'm just flabbergasted. Blizzard announced recently that their World of Warcraft surpassed 11 million subscribers worldwide. Pretty "wow" worthy, don't you think? Read The Full Story

World of Warcraft patch ‘Echoes of Doom’ goes live; rocky restart

Brenda Stokes, Oct 15th 2008 Discuss [0]

So the 3.0.2 patch for the World of Warcraft was released by Blizzard yesterday. The patch, called "Echoes of Doom," features all sorts of updates and is furthering along the servers to get ready for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, which is set for release on November 13th. Read The Full Story

Lord of the Rings Online expansion due on November 18th

Brenda Stokes, Oct 9th 2008 Discuss [0]

Fans of MMOs listen up! Looks like the month of November is a generally good month for you. Not only is the World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King coming out on November 13th. Now, the Lord of the Rings expansion is due to be released on November 18th! Read The Full Story

Use your treadmill to play WOW

Emily Price, Aug 26th 2008 Discuss [1]

If you play a lot of World of Warcraft on your PC then chances are you’re not doing a lot of physical activity in the process. A few industrious WOW players created a way to hook up treadmills to the game so they could simulate the running done by their avatars in WOW. Read The Full Story