S trange music from stranger instruments wafted among the tents. Warm light from lanterns glowed within each tent, silhouetting the revelers on the canvas

Better to hear an approaching troll Sarasota Herald-Tribune The Creative Labs’ Sound Blaster World of Warcraft Wireless Headset is dedicated to recreating the gamer’s audio universe.

Sims 3 expansion beats Star Trek Online in February’s PC top 20 Game Daily The Sims juggernaut of a brand continued to rock the top 20, claiming six spots total, and perennial favorite World of Warcraft continued to place almost … ‘Star Trek’ joins the online gaming world Corsair (subscription) all 5 news articles??

Prime those weapons because GA 1.2 is live and there are a number of new features added with this latest patch from Hi-Res Studios. New items and features in this patch include: 4v4 ARENA QUEUE: The 4v4 Arena Queue is for pre-made teams of four players, and offers two new maps built specifically for 4v4 combat

Warcraft III games.on.net (blog) The classic real-time strategy world of Warcraft returns for a third installment, which features four unique races, brilliant three-dimensional graphics, …

There is the running joke in most guilds about people who play pantless/shirtless while gaming/raiding. I would hope that they are still in underwear at least.

I was going to write something deep and meaningful here but because I don’t have a vagina it just didn’t feel right. Spooncraft has been around for over two years now and I have you all to thank

Ultra-nationalism, having lead to two world wars, isn’t everybody’s favorite philosophy. Except, it appears, for media companies. On the one side you hear a lot on how the internet is propelling us into a bright new future, where broadband access allows us to access all sorts of media anywhere and how we like

Cataclysm rumours/info now in PC Gamer UK VERY BIG Spoilers In the latest issue of PC Gamer (UK) is a 6 page article named ‘50 reasons to play Catalysm’. The vast majority of what is covered is already known/confirmed, however, there appears to be verifcation of certain rumours first made here on MMO-champion in the days before Blizzcon but that were never confirmed nor denied. Just a note on the source before everyone starts screaming for links for scans

Fast Company The Rise of Facebook Gaming GamePro.com FarmVille may have 70 million players, a number that dwarfs World of Warcraft’s “mere” 11.5 million players, but those WOW players pay more than a hundred … GamePro at GDC: What we learned today GamePro.com all 56 news articles??

I’d like to share two stories today. I remember years ago when my guild (at the time) set foot into Serpentshrine Cavern.

Creative Sound Blaster World of Warcraft Wireless Headset review Crave The Creative Sound Blaster World of Warcraft Wireless Headset is comfortable and functional, sporting some useful features and a design that will please …

Every week, we broadcast live from several places worldwide (several rooms, anyway) to present you with the WoW Insider Show podcast — an hour’s worth of WoW community discussion, covering everything from the week’s top stories here on WoW.com to emails from our readers to what’s been going on with our particular characters in Azeroth. Along with your hosts, WoW.com editor Michael Sacco and contributing editor Matthew Rossi , we also feature rotating guest hosts, whether regular WoW.com contributors or personalities from other sites

In the open Sunday thread a reader asked whether there was any connection between Tamarind founding a new guild for the blogging community and Gevlon founding a new ganking guild. Obviously the two guilds couldn’t be any more different from each other, Single Abstract Noun is a social guild, while Gevlon posted extremely anti-social guild rules .

In the vein of the World of Warcraft magazine, Massively reports that NCSoft has announced a magazine for the MMORPG Aion. Unlike the quarterly World of Warcraft magazine , the Aion magazine will be digital-only and come out every four weeks, or roughly every month. The Aion magazine also features bonus in-game items for players who pre-order, such as armor dyes and consumables.

Tamarind from Righteous Orbs founded a World of Warcraft guild for the blogging community , called Single Abstract Noun on the EU RP server Argent Dawn, Horde side. There is also a US chapter . I joined the Euro side with a Tauren shaman, now level 4, and owning 67 copper pieces.

There’s been a rather interesting issue I’ve had to fight with since… oh, since the Blood Wing went live in ICC. See, this is what happens.

With Cataclysm looming on the horizon, as Wrath of the Lich King winds down, it’s a good time to reflect on the expansion and see how things could’ve gone better. In the recently concluded developer chat over Twitter , one person asked what features in Wrath Blizzard would redo or remove if they could turn back the clock. Their answer is something close to my heart , personally, and I agree wholeheartedly

Game developers, as well as the armchair developers on blogs and forums, tend to design games around what *they* would like to play. So if I’d ask you for what features your dream MMORPG would have, I’m sure you could provide me a list.

Welcome back to The Queue , WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.