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Patch 3.3: Official Shadowmourne preview

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Following its announcement at BlizzCon '09, players have been looking forward to seeing just how the new legendary two-handed axe, Shadowmourne, will be created and how it'll function. Today, Blizzard fills us in on the details ... well, sort of. In their official preview of the weapon, Blizzard fleshes out its ...

Patch 3.3 PTR: Patch notes updated

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Horray! Another update to the patch 3.3 PTR patch notes. This one is nice and small. Usually, when the note updates become smaller and smaller, it's a good indication that the patch is getting closer to being done. But, we also haven't seen any itemization of this patch yet -- ...

Blizzard is tracking 180,000 bugs in WoW

Friday, September 18th, 2009

During the keynote today at the Austin Game Developers Conference, Executive Vice President Frank Pearce and Production Director J. Allen Brack spoke at length about the internal workings of the WoW team and how they get their jobs done. One of the more stunning things to come out of the keynote, ...

The future of the ingame Darkmoon Faire

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Larisa over at the Pink Pigtail Inn misunderstood the news we posted the other day about the Darkmoon Faire live event in France being canceled, and instead thought that the actual ingame event had been shut down for good. And that brought up an interesting question to her: so what ...

BlizzCon 2009: Costumes, pt II

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Elizabeth gave you heads up during the BlizzCon 2009 weekend that your intrepid WoW.com staff was keeping an eye on the amazing costumes on your behalf. We were even able to give you a huge gallery of the costume contest taking place, with great pictures as the cosplayers strutted their ...

Age of Conan – Eurogamer Re-Review

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Eurogamer posted a Re-review of the game. With so many fixes and changes since launch, this seemed to be the perfect time too. You can read the full review here As noted in the article... "Moreover, the whole journey was incredibly good fun - the best fun I've had in an MMORPG since ...

Save everything, sell everything

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW's newest players to the basics of a good start in the World of Warcraft. Send us a note to suggest a WoW Rookie topic, and be sure to visit the WoW Rookie Guide for links to all our tips, tricks and how-to's. It's clean-up ...