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I See Spirit Beasts

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Two to be exact. In one night no less. Within an hour or two of taming Skoll, I ran into Gondria while looking for Terror Spinner. It's so funny... I looked for nearly two weeks on the patch 3.1 PTR and never saw hide nor hair, nor ghostly aura of Gondria anywhere. ...

Patch 3.2.2 changes for Shamans

Friday, September 25th, 2009

No, technically they didn't just go ahead and let you race change your draenei shaman into a dwarf in patch 3.2.2. I guess Blizzard didn't get my letter. It's a shame, because I used glitter and star stickers and I drew a picture of a pink pony Frost Shocking a ...

Win some real-life loot from screenshot contests

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

We've got not one but two different screeshot contests that have shown up on the tip line lately. First off, our friend Mep, who runs WoW Screenshots, has gotten his contest all up and running, and you can go over and upload a screenshot or vote for the winners over ...

Around Azeroth: The old man and the sea

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Natedoog of <Paularity> on WIldhammer has injected a much-needed dose of reality into the fishing profession. Sitting on a sunny beach in Stranglethorn with friends? Ha! Real fishermen get up at the crack of dawn, in the freezing cold and killer fog, just so they can go out and fail ...

Patch 3.2.2 PTR: Pandaren and Lil’ K.T. pets revealed in latest build

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Like Diablo's Cow Level, the Pandaren have almost mythic status within World of Warcraft since that memorable and almost plausible April Fool's Day prank. Blizzard has paid homage to that by tucking a pet Pandaren Monk into the latest build (10371) of patch 3.2.2 which has just gone live on ...

Cataclysm will reshape guilds

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. If you're a regular reader of this column, you know that my biggest pet peeve with WoW is how little support guilds have received from Blizzard over the years. As I've said before, guilds ...

BlizzCon 2009 Goody Bag is full of StarCraft goodness

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Despite the earlier announcement that StarCraft II would be delayed, it looks like BlizzCon 2009 is going to be all StarCraft all the time. Blizzard recently revealed through the BlizzCon website and a humorous post by Nethaera that the official swag bag will contain an exclusive "Raynor" n00bz vinyl figure ...