WoW Insider Show Episode 118: Taking sides

We had a great time as always on last weekend’s podcast — Kelly “Cadistra” Aarons and C. Christian Moore (a.k.a. Colby, a.k.a. C-money) joined us on the podcast to talk about comics and PvP, respectively, and we hit on the most popular posts of the past week as well, including wrapping up Pilgrim’s Bounty, our [...]

Cory Stockton breaks down the process of making an instance

Blizzard has done a lot of press regarding the fifth anniversary of the game (and there’s probably more to come), but Curse has done one of the more interesting pieces so far. Instead of just chatting with Cory Stockton about his experiences, they had him sit down and explain just how Blizzard puts an instance [...]

Patch 3.3 not released tomorrow, Zarhym hates cranberries and Azeroth

Simple true statement of the day: Patch 3.3 will not be released Tuesday November 24th, 2009.
Zarhym hopped on the fourms earlier this evening and said that the patch will not be dropping tomorrow, and that they don’t consider dropping a patch before a long holiday weekend something they want to do. We agree.
Zarhym goes on [...]

The Queue: It is a mystery

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. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.
The Queue is a bit short today, and rather than giving you reasons why, I’m going to leave it up to you guys to create wild and zany [...]

Patch 3.3 PTR: Shadow Word: Pain not affected by haste

We heard a little while back from Ghostcrawler that haste would soon affect Heal-over-Time (HoT) and Damage-over-Time (DoT) spells, and sure enough, soon after that, Shadow Priests — who use DoTs all the time — saw a nice buff. But of course this is the PTR, and everything is subject to change, and so last [...]

Razer giving away Nagas and WoW steins on Facebook

Peripherals manufacturer Razer has partnered with Taverncraft to give away a Razer Naga MMO gaming mouse and a Charge of the Great Dragonflights World of Warcraft stein to two lucky fans on Facebook. Those interested to participate in the contest must have a Facebook account and become a fan of the Razer page in order [...]

Officers’ Quarters: Patch 3.3 — An officer’s perspective

Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
Much as I’ve done with Patch 3.2 and other major patches in the past, I’d like to examine what 3.3 will mean for officers. All major patches require some forethought and adjustment, and this one just happens to be [...]

Patch 3.3 PTR: Get a pug when you PUG

Because those guys at Blizzard have a wonderful sense of humor as well as an unerring knack of dangling the right carrots in front of players’ proverbial horses, they’ve come up with the most adorable little pet to entice everyone to try out the new dungeon system to be implemented in patch 3.3. Called the [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Ravenholdt Labyrinth (Interactive WoW Adventure)

A small crew of machinima creators and artists have stepped up their gamed and delivered something truly new to the World of Warcraft fan video scene. Check out the Ravenholdt Labyrinth (Interactive WoW Adventure).
This isn’t a single video. Instead, using the interactive linking annotation feature in YouTube, the creators have made a sort of “Choose [...]