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Scattered Shots: How to tell your friend he's a huntard

Welcome to Scattered Shots, written by Frostheim of Warcraft Hunters Union and the Hunting Party Podcast. Each week, Frostheim uses logic and science (mixed with a few mugs of dwarven stout) to look deep into the hunter class. Got hunter questions? Fee

Cataclysm Beta: Twilight Highlands and Uldum galleries

Twilight Highlands and Uldum aren't technically open yet in the Cataclysm beta, but when have invisible walls ever stopped someone who really wanted to get into a zone? Resourceful tester Lemon King sends us these monster galleries of questing through bo

WoW Moviewatch: Oxhorn Brand Medley

It's been a little while since we've enjoyed some Oxhorn in this column, and the maestro of machinima music was brought up yesterday in the comments. With that in mind, I wanted to take a moment and revisit one of my favorite pieces by Oxhorn: the Oxhor

The Queue: Failure

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. Failure? OK. Smods asked: "Why can't I create a worgen in the beta?"Continue r

Around Azeroth Beta Edition: Live every week like it's Shark Week

Most of the beta screenshots we've been getting fall into one of three categories: landscape, goblin and underwater. This picture, submitted by Adelis of <Tribe> on Sunstrider (EU-H), is a good example of the latter. "While swimming around in Vashj

Hinterlands [HD] - Cataclysm Video Coverage

In today's video, we fly over the mildly altered Hinterlands. There have been some changes, but many of them are hard to fathom from the air,...

Raid Rx: Identifying and avoiding insane applicants

Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host, Matt Low, the grand pooh-bah of World of Matticus, is on vacation. Today, Allison Robert pens advice concerning recruitment policy that you would probably be better off no

Breakfast Topic: What not to do before Cataclysm

This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the Aol guest writer program that brings your words to WoW.com. We're all getting ready for Deathwing and his sundering of the world by raiding the last few bosses of ICC, jumping into the Ruby Sanct

Cataclysm closed beta live stream

The WoW.com team is streaming again tonight over on our Justin.tv channel, or you can simply watch via the embed above. Tonight Anne Stickney will be showing us the continuing adventures of Lunchmeat the human hunter accompanied by her trusty wolf Spam,

Spiritual Guidance: The top ten shadow priest glyphs

Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Spiritual Guidance, hosted by Fox Van Allen, consort to the shadows. Don't mind any distracting grunting you hear coming from under the floor boards. Dawn Moore isn't buried alive underneath there, I promise. She just

Cataclysm screenshot of the day

The latest Cataclysm screenshot from Blizzard is shown above. There was some consternation yesterday about a Twilight joke. I apologize for that, and instead offer up today's image, or a brunette nearby apples. At night, in a neckbaring dress. If you

The Classifieds: Puzzling over the world of Azeroth

The Classifieds brings you weekly news from around the WoW community, including our famous Random Acts of Uberness. While we at WoW.com are hard at work puzzling out the latest round of changes from the Cataclysm beta, we've got something for you to puz

Know Your Lore: The Old Gods part two -- C'Thun

The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how -- but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the stor

Encrypted Text: Exposé on Expose Armor

Every Wednesday, Chase Christian of Encrypted Text invites you to enter the world of shadows, as we explore the secrets and mechanics of the rogue class. This week, we discuss one of the least-appreciated rogue abilities, Expose Armor. I took the above s

Choose My Adventure: I'm cheating on you

Choose the adventures of the WoW.com staff as we level our characters in <It came from the Blog> on Zangarmarsh (US-PvE-H). I still have many moving chores to do, but if I do play tonight, I'll be cheating on you and Robinemia by playing Roblin th

Email confirmation added to authenticator setup to foil hackers

For a while now, account thieves have been putting authenticators on their stolen accounts to buy more time for their scumbaggery. Blizzard has recently made that more difficult by requiring email confirmation when an authenticator is added to a Battle.n

WoW Moviewatch: Broken Hearted

Broken Hearted is a new machinima released by RomireVids. It's a story-driven machinima about a draenei, an evening of adventure, and the ramifications of what happens. As a note, Romire does say that he made the death scenes grayscale for the sake of e

The Queue: Oops

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. Alex Ziebart will be your host today. I won't lie. I almost forgot to write The Queue today. It's not my fault. It reall

Around Azeroth: Submersiborc

Navy SEAL tryouts came early to Azeroth this year. Valafar of <Deadlight> on Exodar (US-H) knew of the Horde military's anti-blood elf policy and disguised himself as an orc to gain entrance to the testing grounds. Once there, he performed admirabl

New Poll - Best DK Pet

Death Knights have quite a few 'pets' at their command. There's the gargoyle with his leet DPS and ability to block anyone's...

Share Your Death Knight!

Everyone needs a chance to brag about how sweet their character is! And everyone needs a little help or advice now and then too. Here's your...

Gold Capped: WoW Prospector and mailbag

Every week, Gold Capped (from Basil "Euripides" Berntsen) aims to educate players about how to make money on the auction house. For the inside line on crafting for disenchanting, transmutation, cross-faction arbitrage and more, check in every Wednesday.

Southern Barrens [HD] - Cataclysm Video Coverage

To make up for the atrocities at Southshore, the Alliance have made a bold strike in the Southern Barrens. Perhaps by the next expansion, they will...

Breakfast Topic: We heard you like gaming so we put a game in your game so you can game while you game

The release of StarCraft II brought about a surprise for the observant player -- an object in the cantina of ship that lets you play an arcade game called Lost Viking right in StarCraft II. This is a fun little shooter that's a cross between Asteroids an

Breakfast Topic: What not to do before Cataclysm

This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the Aol guest writer program that brings your words to WoW.com. We're all getting ready for Deathwing and his sundering of the world by raiding the last few bosses of ICC, jumping into the Ruby Sanct

SC2 Lead Technical Artist talk RealID, patching, more

Shifting Perspectives: Pulling 101: Deeper into the dungeon

Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting feral/restoration druids and those who group with them. This week, we continue to get hit in the face. This week, we're continuing our series on Pulling 101 with a look at what happens duri

Totem Talk: Leveling as a restoration shaman in Cataclysm

Want to be a sultan of swing healing? A champion of Chain Heal? Totem Talk: Restoration will show you how, brought to you by Joe Perez, otherwise known as Lodur from World of Matticus and the For The Lore podcast The Cataclysm beta has been offering us

Reader UI of the Week: Fizziks' UI Mk. II

Each week, WoW.com brings you a fresh look at reader-submitted UIs. Have a screenshot of your UI you want to submit? Send your screenshots, along with info on what mods you're using, to readerui@wow.com. Greetings, Reader UI of the Week fans, and welc

MMO Roundup: Last week on Massively

Sometimes you'd like to know that there are other MMOs out there, right? It's not all WoW, all the time! Our sister site Massively can provide you with everything you need to know about all of the other MMOs around: past, present and future.

Insider Trader: Enchanting the Cataclysm

Cataclysm is probably still a little bit away. Blizzard has not announced the final launch date, though, so there's really not any way to guess. Still, we're seeing more and more information slough out of the beta like so much tantalizing ice cream falli

15 Minutes of Fame: Psychologist and games researcher John Hopson

From Hollywood celebrities to the guy next door, millions of people have made World of Warcraft a part of their lives. How do you play WoW? We're giving each approach its own 15 Minutes of Fame. What keeps gamers hooked on their game of choice? Chances

Lichborne: Festering Strike and other beta news

Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly source for news, guides, tips and opinions on the death knight class. With the latest beta build, death knights have seen yet another series of small adjustments to their talent trees, but the biggest news is the addit

Cataclysm screenshot of the day

The latest Cataclysm screenshot from Blizzard is shown above. The Gilneans continue to look like dark Victorian versions of Stormwind humans. Edward would be proud. If you've missed any of the previous Cataclysm screenshots of the day or you want to s

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 initiativ

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. S

Death Knight Haiku Contest Has Begun!

Our Death Knight Haiku Contest has begun! Head on over to our Death Knight Forums to participate! The most creative Haiku will receive a Custom Death...

The Lore and History of Death Knights

Darion Mograine"The Knights of the Ebon Blade will not falter."Darion Mograine was stillborn but his father, Alexandros, dipped him in a...

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 real

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

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

Hillsbrad Foothills [HD] - Cataclysm Video Coverage

The seemingly ancient battle between Tarren Mill and Southshore rages on in this expansion. Take a look at the war's progress in this full 1080p...

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 (

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 m

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

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-

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

Choose My Adventure: Predictable

Choose the adventures of the WoW.com staff as we level our characters in <It came from the Blog> on Zangarmarsh (US-PvE-H). Bieber for Sandwichdoc was so predictable. Gregg has informed me that since Queen placed such a close second, he will play

Cataclysm Beta: Northern Stranglethorn and The Cape of Stranglethorn

There are several reasons people disliked Stranglethorn Vale in vanilla WoW. I could go into detail about the confusion that The Green Hills of Stranglethorn presents to new players. I could tell you about the lack of coherent direction in questing. I co

Russia, Germany and China WCG participants ready

Weekly Podcast Roundup: July 19 through July 25, 2010

Every Monday evening, WoW.com brings you a long list of WoW podcasts that were published the week (and weekend) before. If you don't see your favorite podcast listed, just let us know in the comments. Be sure to leave a link to it, and we'll pick it up

Cataclysm Beta: Holy power questions

Holy power is the big conversation topic for paladins right now (well, that and mobility in PvP -- but that's always a topic of conversation for paladins). For those of you who have been out of the loop, Blizzard announced during its last developer chat

Blood Sport: How to accomplish your PvP goals

Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women? Blood Sport investigates the entirety of all things arena for gladiators and challengers alike. C. Christian Moore, multiple rank 1 gladiator, examines the l

World of WarCrafts: Fan artists breathe creativity into their hobbies

World of WarCrafts spotlights art and creativity by WoW players, including fan art, cooking, comics, cosplay, music, fan fiction and more. I've been reading an anthropological analysis of the World of Warcraft for an upcoming 15 Minutes of Fame that tal

Gold Capped: How to calculate inscription costs and prices

Every week, Gold Capped brings you tips on how to make money on the auction house. This article from inscription specialist Steve Zamboni has been brought to you by Seed, the Aol guest writer program that brings your words to WoW.com. With its myriad of

Officers' Quarters: Destructive criticism, part 2

Every Monday, Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of The Guild Leader's Handbook, available from No Starch Press. Last week, I began addressing what is one of the most com

WoW Moviewatch: Where the hell is Poke?

Today's movie takes a little bit of background. Some years ago, an enterprising dude named Matt released an awesome world travel video. In this video, he visited dozens of locations across the globe, and filmed himself dancing there. It's not a great dan

Tarou's Weekly WoW Report 7/25/2010

Tarou's back with his Weekly WoW Report, detailing what's new in professions, gameplay and more!Don't forget to subscribe!

The Queue: Playing favorites

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. Alex Ziebart will be your host today. Many of you asked me to keep you updated on the status of my s'mores pizza. I come

Warrior Contest Winners!

All winners for the Warrior Contests have been selected and notified. Be sure to check your email and private messages! Thanks for playing!...

Bloody Tanks!

Originally, Blizzard designed Death Knights to be able to tank no matter what tree you specced into. This was done in the hopes of increasing the...

Class Spotlight: Death Knight

WoWVault is doing a spotlight on the classes of World of Warcraft every two weeks! For the next two weeks you will see Death Knightthemed discussions,...

Class Spotlight: Death Knight

From March through July, WoW Vault will be running a series of spotlights to celebrate each of World of Warcraft's classes! Every two weeks...

Around Azeroth Beta Edition: Dig down deep

Beautiful view, isn't it? Too bad you won't be seeing it in the game. Beta tester Moonmaster of <Eminent Reign> on Lightninghoof (US-H) put this panoramic picture of Deepholm together from a bunch of separate screenshots in Photoshop. It's a pretty

Gilneas [HD] - Cataclysm Video Coverage

Let's kick Monday morning off with a full 1080p HD video flyover of Gilneas from the beta Cataclysm servers! Don't confuse this with the new...

Scattered Shots: Hunter beta leveling through Mt. Hyjal

Welcome to Scattered Shots, written by Frostheim of Warcraft Hunters Union and the Hunting Party Podcast. Each week, Frostheim uses logic and science (mixed with a few mugs of dwarven stout) to look deep into the hunter class. Got hunter questions? Feel

Breakfast Topic: Connecting with loved ones

This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the Aol guest writer program that brings your words to WoW.com. In our age of technology and isolation, we often unintentionally turn a cold shoulder to our pals and relatives for a number of reasons

Cataclysm screenshot of the day

The latest Cataclysm screenshot from Blizzard is shown above. This image makes me think of good old Zangarmarsh. I'm happy to seem some of the foreign, alien landscapes returning to the game. If you've missed any of the previous Cataclysm screenshots

Spiritual Guidance: So you wanna play a priest, part 4, levels 41-70

Two class specs, both alike in dignity, in fair Azeroth, where we lay our scene, from ancient expansion to ICC, here circles, bubbles, mischief all convene. Spiritual Guidance updates each Sunday with all the essentials on healing as a priest. You would

Totem Talk: Dual-wielding topics

Axes, maces, lightning, Windfury and wolves. It can mean only one thing: enhancement. Rich Maloy lives it and loves it. His main spec is enhance. His off-spec is enhance. He blogs about the life and times of enhance and leads the guild Big Crits as the e

Reforging in Cataclysm

As of the latest Cataclysm build, Reforging has been activated, somewhat. The NPCs have been added, but they are currently nonfunctional except to...

All the World's a Stage: You keep me coming back

I've never been able to completely walk away from any of my characters. Everyone of my WoW characters are indexed in my heart and soul. I played City of Heroes before WoW, and I recently went back around to Paragon City to check in on those kids. (They'r

The Light and How to Swing It: Healing on the run

Every Sunday, Chase Christian of The Light and How to Swing It invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization. This week, we discuss how paladins are basically healing siege tanks. Superman is faster than a speeding

Paladin Gameplay in Cataclysm

Our buddy Ghostcrawler, who we interviewed last month, is at it again with another controversial statement, this time about our beloved PaladinsAs far...

Western Plaguelands [HD] - Cataclysm Video Coverage

Our daily Cataclysm video adventure continues today in the Western Plaguelands. Much like its Eastern counterpart shown yesterday, the Argent Crusade...

Sunday Morning Funnies: Plushie lovin', out loud

Random expressions of love can be dangerous; that's the lesson for the week. Stay tuned next week for the debut of the Sunday Morning Funnies gallery guide, packed with all of the custom artwork I could squeeze out of your favorite comic artists! LFG

Around Azeroth Beta Edition: Morale booster

Goblin cheesecake calendars -- now those are three words you never want to see together. But apparently the goblins at Bilgewater Port in Azshara decided that their troops fighting the Alliance needed something to fight for, and commissioned this ... ero

Breakfast Topic: Brewing up better faires and festivals

This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the Aol guest writer program that brings your words to WoW.com. I've just spent a day being Scottish. My father's family hails from Scotland, and the summer months will find me out and about at a var

Eastern Plaguelands [HD] - Cataclysm Video Coverage

Since we missed last Wednesday's video, this evening we have what I should have posted of the Eastern Plaguelands in full 1080p HD. It isn't...

Totem Talk: Back to basics

Welcome to another article by elemental shaman specialist Matt Sampson, otherwise known as Binkenstein. By day, he's a geek; by night, he's also a geek, but with spreadsheets. He'd also like to point out that Time Warp is just another excuse to bring mag

Know Your Lore: The Eternals part three -- the Titans

The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how -- but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the stor

Guest Post: Three fresh ideas for world PvP events

This article has been brought to you by Seed, the Aol guest writer program that brings your words to WoW.com. Of all the PvP events I've participated in over the years, the battle for Halaa in Nagrand always sticks out in my mind as one of the best-exec

Arcane Brilliance: News and notes from Cataclysm beta build 12604

It's time again for Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that strives to bring you all the latest in Flame Orbs and Deathfrosts, Arcane Missile Barrages and Frostfires, Arcanefireflamefrostfreezes and Iceflamefrostfirecanebolts and everything in bet

New World of Warcraft Wallpaper

Blizzard has recently updated the World of Warcraft Wallpapers section with a new wallpaper featuring Festergut.

BlizzCon 2010 Virtual Ticket Now On Sale

Want to experience the panel discussions, tournaments, gamerelated announcements, and all the excitement of BlizzCon from the comfort of your own...

WRUP: Our bucket list

Every week, just at the start of the weekend, we catch up with the WoW.com staff and ask them, "What are you playing this week?" (Otherwise known as: WRUP!) Join us to see what we're up to in and out of game -- and catch us in the comments to let us know

Around Azeroth: Goodbye, Mirage Raceway

The sun is setting on our beloved racetrack. No more will we be running around it, collecting debris, scaring humans disguised as chickens and eating Tigul and Foror's Strawberry ice cream. Goodbye, Mirage Raceway! Do you have any unusual, beautiful or

Breakfast Topic: To be the best

This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the Aol guest writer program that brings your words to WoW.com. As a competitive person, I do not want to be mediocre at anything I do. I want to be so good at my job that I earn a bonus at annual re

Cataclysm Video Coverage: Deepholm [HD]

For today's video, we venture into the former home of Deathwing. This shattered realm is a sight to behold in full 1080p HD, especially if you...

BlizzCon 2010 virtual ticket on sale

For those unable to attend BlizzCon in Anaheim, California this upcoming October, DIRECTV will once again be broadcasting it all (mostly) live online for $39.95 USD. The virtual ticket has just gone on sale this evening so make sure you don't miss out. F

The Daily Quest: So then he said

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. Some people have things to say about everything under the sun -- lik

Cataclysm Video Coverage: Abyssal Depths [HD]

For today's video, we bring you shots from the underwater kingdom of Vashj'ir. Last week, we explored the brightly colored Kelp Forest. Now...

Shifting Perspectives: Recreating balance druids in Cataclysm

Every Friday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting balance druids and those who group with them. This week, we are watching a moonkin dance with a mushroom once again, mostly because it amuses me, and talking about all the recent beta goodies.

The Care and Feeding of Warriors: The constantly evolving beta warrior

The Care and Feeding of Warriors is about warriors, who hurl themselves into the fray, into the very teeth of danger, armed with nothing more than the biggest weapons and armored with the absolutely heaviest armor we can find. Hey, we're not stupid, we'

Cataclysm screenshot of the day

The latest Cataclysm screenshot from Blizzard is shown above. The gate is definitely not ajar. The gate is far from ajar. That gate's a gate! If you've missed any of the previous Cataclysm screenshots of the day or you want to see a high-res version o

Choose My Adventure: Welcome Lisiel

Choose the adventures of the WoW.com staff as we level our characters in <It came from the Blog> on Zangarmarsh (US-PvE-H). My fellow Drama Mama, Lisa Poisso, will be joining the Choose My Adventure gang. Try not to scare her away. First schedule,

Cataclysm Beta: Garrosh and Sylvanas voice clips

Garrosh is having troubles on the home front, as shown in these spoiler-filled sound clips from the Cataclysm beta. They also have a bit of expository dialogue from Sylvanas from quests in Gilneas and Silverpine. More after the break.Continue reading C

Drama Mamas: Friends behaving badly

Dodge the drama and become that player everyone wants in their group with the Drama Mamas. Lisa Poisso and Robin Torres are real-life mamas and experienced WoW players -- and just as we don't want our precious babies to be the ones kicking and wailing o

Upcoming level and zone changes in Cataclysm

Nethaera (Blizzard community representative) has posted some new, interesting information about the leveling experience in Cataclysm. Mount Hyjal and Vashj'ir, the two opening zones of the expansion, will now require level 80 to enter and begin questin

WoW Moviewatch: Muffin presents Beta Cataclysm: Kalimdor

So, it's been said that while Moviewatch is riveting, blood-elf-loving fun, we've not had a whole lot to say in this column about Cataclysm. The feedback is that WoW machinima is awesome and all, but after two years of the gloomy blue and black of North

The Queue: Airwolf

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. Image self-explanatory. No one expects the 58th Rocket Werewolf Battalion. Xiona

Around Azeroth: Paintings of light

Outland. Remember that place? No? The big area where you had to level your death knight before you could go to Northrend? Lots of purple and red and demons? Yeah, that place. Anyway, Kiruvi of <Dogs of War> on Terokkar (US-H) went back to Outland a

Call for Submissions: On the road with World of Warcraft

Do you play World of Warcraft while you're on the road? Tell us about your setup: hardware, connectivity, voice comms ... What about jittery performance on netbooks or older laptops -- worth it, or not? Are there hotels that always offer a great connecti

Breakfast Topic: Yellow car, I win!

This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the Aol guest writer program that brings your words to WoW.com. A few months ago, a friend introduced me to Yellow Car, I Win! The main point of the game, clearly, is to shout the titular phrase ever

Five new concept and fan artworks

The Daily Quest: It's all about the gear

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. Remember running Scholomance a hundred times just to try to get that l

Raid Rx: No pally? No problem

Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host, Matt Low, the grand pooh-bah of World of Matticus, is on vacation. Hello readers! Your favorite Canadian priest is off on some sort of an adventure this week so I'm here t

Cataclysm Video Coverage: Loch Modan [HD]

Sadly we missed our daily dose of Sprawl's Scrawl Movies yesterday. Did anyone notice? Don't worry though, we are back with another 1080p HD...

Cataclysm Beta: Deathwing voice clips

Deathwing is pretty prepared to unmake you and your world, as evidenced in this set of Deathwing encounter clips datamined by Jolesole of raevyn.net. While fairly innocuous, the clips could still be construed as spoilers, so listen at your own risk. Wo

Cataclysm screenshot of the day

The latest Cataclysm screenshot from Blizzard is shown above. Explosions! The goblins need more explosions! 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 gall

The OverAchiever: The 25 most entertaining achievements, part 2

Every so often I get tired of the self-seriousness that infests some of (OK, most of) the other work I do here and get the urge to write something purely for fun. After our series on evil achievements and the relentless misery of School of Hard Knocks, I

Call for Submissions: Pour us some fresh Breakfast Topics

Psst -- wake up! The WoW.com Breakfast Topic coffee cup is back, ready to be filled up with your submissions. What's on your mind (and what do you think is on other players' minds) when it comes to the World of Warcraft? Write it up as Breakfast Topic an

Addon Spotlight: Grab bag

Addon Spotlight focuses on the backbone of the WoW gameplay experience: the user interface. Everything from bags to bars, buttons to DPS meters and beyond -- your addons folder will never be the same. This week, Addon Spotlight reaches into the addon gr