World of Warcraft

Blizzard has announced that they will be offering a free trial DVD of World of Warcraft and 14 days of game time to attendees of upcomming Play! performances.

Blizzard has announced the release of the Black Temple, the latest content patch for World of Warcraft. The Black Temple features the addition of new quests, new mounts like the Nether Drake, the new Druid Epic Flight form, and locations like Ogri'la, The Ruins of Lordaeron Arena, and of course The Black Temple itself.

Our friends over at Blizzard have released a Patch Preview for the upcoming Patch 2.1. Patch 2.1 will include a new 25-man raid called the Black Temple.

Blizzard has announced the dates and venues for the regional finals and the global finals for the upcoming tournament events for World of Warcraft and Warcraft III.

These days you can collect and save up points on your credit cards to put toward buying all sorts of useless junk and services. Gamers use their credit cards to pay for their gaming, why can't our purchases count towards something more useful to us? Blizzard has teamed up with the First National Bank of Omaha to answer this question with the World of Warcraft Rewards Visa, allowing players to save those points to put toward game time.

On Friday May 4th, Blizzard will be enabling the battleground matchmaking system on their public test realms. To kick off the new system, World of Warcraft players will be given the chance to test their mettle against Blizzard employees and community managers as they will be on hand to take on any teams who dare to challenge them.

Blizzard has announced that they will be teaming with NVIDIA, Machinima.com, and The Ataris hold a music video contest. After the top 10 videos have been selected, the winners will be voted for by the World of Warcraft community.

Blizzard and Renaissance Entertainment Productions have teamed up to offer World of Warcraft players and fantasy fans alike a special discount on tickets to several renaissance faire events.

BBC News has run an interesting story about World of Warcraft, discussing virtual trading and gold selling, and the controversy surrounding the issue.

Blizzard is offering a free trial to the latest expansion for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. The Trial is open to both current and former WoW subscribers.

Blizzard Entertainment announces BlizzCon 2007.

Upper Deck Entertainment, the makers of the World of Warcraft trading card game, have announced that the newest expansion set will contain "loot" cards which will give players access to in-game items.

The folks over at Blizzard recently revealed a bunch of new end game content for World of Warcraft, including the much anticipated Black Temple, and the opportunity to acquire your very own ethereal drake.

World of Warcraft has updated the Expansion Factions page.

World of Warcraft expansion now live in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.