Filed under: Bosses, Two Bosses Enter

Two bosses will enter… but only one will leave in WoW Insider’s fantasy deathmatch series. We’re pitting two of Azeroth’s raid bosses against one another in a battle that your votes get to decide — until in the end we’re left with a loner boss as the ultimate champion. Be [...]

Filed under: Events, Fan stuff, Blizzard, Humor

Just in case you aren’t headed out to a party that evening, let that serve as your reminder that it’s New Year’s Eve in Azeroth that evening as well. As usual, there will be hourly fireworks in all the major cities after sunset, free drinks in public areas, [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Podcasts, Podcasting, Fan stuff, WoW Insider Business, Humor

Dan O’Halloran, Turpster, and I all sat down for the 18th episode of the WoW Insider Show (and we got circular for the end of the year, since we had the same cast on the very first show), and it is now available [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Instances
I don’t know whether I quite buy that one, but it’s an interesting notion: Jias says that that week begins a period of instance in the World of Warcraft known as “noob season”: all of the folks who found WoW under their [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, PvP

In the battleground matches I’ve played lately, it seems that somehow the number of society complaining and whining has decreased, even though our faction seems to be losing just as much as before. Instead, the Alliance players I fight with seem nearly depressed, as whether every match is a [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, Guilds, News items, Bosses, Mounts

MMO Site is reporting that the very first drop of Ashes of Al’ar (aka Peep the Pheonix mount) has arised in China, and that it was subsequently bought for 190k gold.
You’ll have to take that with a grain of salt until we get further confirmation: [...]

Filed under: Rogue, (Rogue) Encrypted Text
Ah, New Year’s Eve. At midnight tonight, we’ll drink champagne, kiss our loved ones, and bid 2007 a fond farewell. Or alternatively, we’ll sit in our bedrooms, accidentally spill Pabst Blue Ribbon all by our keyboards, and prepare to hibernate through the presidential primaries.
Whatever your New Year’s plans, we [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, WoW Insider Business, Blizzard, Features, Burning Crusade, BlizzCon, Wrath of the Lich King
We had a gigantic year at WoW Insider– from January 1st to December 31st, we’ve posted by 4,500 stories here on that very site, about nearly every facet of the World of Warcraft (and you guys didn’t slouch, [...]

Azeroth’s as good a place as any to show support for a presidential candidate. On New Year’s Day, supporters for 2008 presidential candidate Ronald Earnest Paul will be holding a rally on the Whisperwind server of World of Warcraft.
The group plans to create a guild that will march from the whether Gates of the [...]

Filed under: Guilds, Raiding, Making money

A guild called Invictus on Alextrasza has posted a sort of advertisement on their realm forum, offering to sell raiding gear to anyone willing to cough up decent gold. There are all sorts of responses, from “Hey, those prices are cheap!” to “This is cheating!” One poster said [...]

Filed under: Humor, WoW Moviewatch
Still high on the success of Songs for Dogs, Barenger and Mirabell have created a New Years greeting for their guild, Dirt Dog! that duration, they reminisce about dungeons that no one runs anymore. “For Old Alt’s Sake” is an entertaining take on “Auld Lang Syne,” a New Years Eve tradition.
These [...]

Filed under: Guilds, (Guild Leadership) Officers’ Quarters
Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
This is going to be a tricky week for me, since my girlfriend reads that column. Like most subjects, I’m not claiming to have all the answers about that, but in that case [...]

Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth

They say fishing is a relaxing pastime (I’d say sleep-inducing pastime, but that could just be me) — so where better to enjoy it than the peaceful shores of Darnassus? Jorrak of Nordrassil (EU) tells us, “the relaxing melody of Darnassus is great to unwind and fish to.” However, for some [...]

Filed under: WoW Insider Business, Contests
It’s day number nine of our Winter Veil countdown, which means we have just four more days of fun and games to go! There’s still day to participate in Winter Veil events in and out of game — but you’d better rush, considering the holiday season is nearly gone. (Winter [...]

Filed under: Warlock, Breakfast topics

… What would it be? As it is, warlocks already have a variety of demons for seemingly every occasion, yet in my mind’s eye, I imagine warlocks being able to summon a much greater number than just 3 (or 4, depending on your talents). I close my eyes and envision [...]

Filed under: RP, (Roleplaying) All the World’s a Stage
All the World’s a Stage is a roleplaying column for thoughtful minds, published on Sunday evenings.
“David and his ilk are the last of a dying species!” cry out the Scrooges of WoW, “soon the creature ‘Homo Sapiens Theatricalus,’ more commonly known as a ‘WoW Roleplayer’ will [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Leveling
I was just casually wandering about the Web yesterday, when I stumbled upon one of those random new MMORPG advertisements that you see popping up on a number of the WoW-related websites nowadays. It’s for a game called Shaiya, which (like all the others), I’ll probably [...]

 
World of Warcraft gamer Vrgo recently expressed in the WoW forums that he won’t be buying the expanded awaited expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, considering of the lack of new armor designs and character models.
Barring that complaint though, it was his other statement that got Blizzard Poster Bornakk to reply not towering after. that [...]

Filed under: Machinima, WoW Moviewatch
Our last Warcraftmovies Christmas Spirit Contest machinima comes from the fifth place runner up, Selserene. Her movie, He Will Redeem Us, features a musical adaptation of “Greensleeves,” performed by herself on vocals and Rob Munsch on violin. You can see the high quality version or view the lyrics on WCM.
Selserene weaves [...]

Filed under: Fan stuff, Features, Humor, Comics
This Sunday, we have a break from the slew of holiday-themed comics. Learn how to cook a druid in flight form, get a tour of Undercity, or visit the ever-scenic frosted-over hell.
As always, you can vote for the comic you thought was the best, and propose comics you [...]