WOW Insider:
In a surprising and stunning move, Blizzard has just launched a real money online in-game pet store. You spend real money, you get an in-game pet. This fully brings Blizzard into the world of microtransactions -- even if the cost of $10 for one of these pets isn't exactly micro.While these are just vanity items, one has to (Read More)
WOW Insider:
Blizzard is notorious for not announcing release dates or patch days until the very last minute -- if at all. Sites like WoW.com and MMO-Champion have had to develop relationships with people in the know in order to have any idea when a patch is coming out, and even then we usually don't find out for sure until about 12 hou (Read More)
WOW Insider:
Oh boy. Most of us are the walking dead after BlizzCon, but let's get back to something resembling normalcy with a Queue. We're going to start off today with an important matter concerning authenticators and account security, then move on to a bit of WoW.com business and Onyxia. I'd also like to direct attention to two real (Read More)
WOW Insider:
Videogamer.com has an interview up with Ryan Barker, the lead designer for seminal MMORPG EverQuest. When asked if he thought WoW would exist without EQ having been around, he replied that he didn't think so, and that Blizzard designers would likely agree with that statement.I think he's right, too. The success of EQ allowe (Read More)
WOW Insider:
Filed under: Blizzard, News items, EconomyOne of the major stories that is breaking today around the internet is the fact that in Australia a number of MMOs are no longer legally able to be sold. This is due to their lack of classification, things like M for Mature, PG, 18+, etc...Our sister site Massively covered this exte (Read More)
WOW Insider:
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, News itemsThe folks over at CVG picked up an interesting note on our Activision-Blizzard overlords' 2008 fiscals. According to Arvind Bhatia, World of Warcraft probably generated 30 cents out of each 60 cents per share of earnings. Put another way, that's about $400 million for sha (Read More)
Delicious/wowgrrl:
World of Warcraft guide by long-time Hunter, WoWGrrl, designed to help Hunters better understand their various traps, when they're best used, as well as various skills a Hunter can practice prior to getting into groups so they'll perform well when they do. (Read More)
MMORPG.VG NEWS BLOG:
I’m in the region of a two-week christmas / newborn assemblage holiday, and thusly hit a aggregation of instance to play. I’m doing a aggregation of World of Warcraft, but not every period long, so I hit instance for whatever added games. As a client to Fileplanet, I got an elicit to the beta of [...]. (Read More)
Submitted by Maniac D
from Google Reader:
Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic in live pilot tests. Senator Conroy went on the record saying "technology that filters peer-to-peer and Bit Torrent traffic does exis (Read More)
Submitted by Maniac D
from Google Reader:
 Available now on Amazon.com for $26 (34% off!)  Our Coding4Fun book, Coding4Fun 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, World of Warcraft, YouTube, and More officially released to the world last week. Unlike your typical .NET development book, Coding4Fun is about learning how to use your developer skills to do fu (Read More)
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP:
I got back from my trip over east on Thursday last week, and while I was over there I had read a news article announcing that Vodafone has the exclusive rights to sell the Dell Mini 9. I have been looking at this machine for a couple of months now, and had come across hints that it would be released soon with 3G. Also a vis (Read More)
WorldOfWarcraft.com News:
We just added a to our World of Warcraft . These desktops feature some amazing artwork from Wildstorm's monthly comic series. If you like what you see, you can visit for more information, , or . (Read More)