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 | |  | | | WEEKLY POLL: Participate in Winter Veil?
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
Our last poll titled " Best non-WoW MMO of 2007" started with Lord of the Rings Online firmly in the lead. Late in the game, a post on the Hellgate London forums spurred a barrage of posts pulling Hellgate London into the lead with 314 votes.
This week's poll is about the current live event in Azeroth, Feast of the Winter Veil. Vote on your Winter Veil participation here.
-- Sprawl @ 17:20 PST
Swedish Magazine Details New Sunwell
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News - The Burning Crusade
The Swedish magazine Level just released their annual issue and Acadia sent a tip over to WoW Insider that contains a bunch of new information about patch 2.4, the Sunwell. - Sunwell Isle will be off the north coast of Silvermoon.
- Magister's Terrace will be the 5-man instance, and the Sunwell Plateau will be the 25-man raid, designed to close off the Burning Crusade storyline (although Kaplan admits there are a few more stories in progress in case they need to delay Wrath at all)
- There will be quests outside the dungeons, too, and they will tell the story of Tempest Keep
- And with those quests, there will be a new faction, called the "Shattered Sun Offensive."
- Finally, the limit of daily quests will raise in 2.4, from 10 to a whopping 25.
There is a lot more spoiler information that can be viewed here.
-- Sprawl @ 16:18 PST
Warcraft Chicks Gift Guide!
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
Christmas is almost here. Stuck for gift ideas? Forget someone? Need a last minute white elekk present? Warcraft Chicks has put together a little gift guide for the 2007 season!
-- PallyDog @ 15:49 PST
Vault Network News: The Witcher Vault Launches!
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
The Vault Network is once again very excited to announce the launching of our latest site, The Witcher Vault. Please take a moment and drop by and check out all the latest in news, information, guides, databases and community for this exciting role-playing game set in a dark world where monsters are found in plenty. The Witcher Vault
-- -Rosethorn- @ 13:28 PST
Top 2007 Events Shaping The Future Of China's Industry
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
According to Gamasutra, Electronic Arts regrets investment in The9, Blizzard's partner for World of Warcraft in China. There were rumors in 2005 that Blizzard and its parent company Vivendi might acquire The9, but the partnership fell through at the last minute. With the EA investment, The9�s relationship with Blizzard turned from a friendly partnership into a pure business deal.
Read all the overseas gossip here.
-- Sprawl @ 9:43 PST
Blizzard Stands Against Real Money Transactions
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
Major MMO makers like Funcom and SOE are on board with a new company called Live Gamer that promises to "legitimize" the real money trade of virtual goods, but World of Warcraft house Blizzard tells Next-Gen that it's still against the practice regardless. "We do not have any plans to support out-of-game trading for World of Warcraft anytime in the near future." Read the full article here.
-- Sprawl @ 9:39 PST
Trial Account Limitation Changes
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
A few days ago, the following was posted by Drysc. We applied a small hotfix early this morning to include an additional restriction to trial accounts.
Trial accounts may no longer invite players to a party. They can still, however; accept invites from subscriber accounts who they may wish to group with. Read the original post here.
-- Sprawl @ 9:32 PST
New World of Warcraft Wallpaper
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News - TCG
Blizzard just added a new wallpaper to their World of Warcraft wallpapers section.
-- Sprawl @ 9:28 PST
Free Oceanic Character Moves
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
Blizzard will be offering free character moves from select high population Oceanic realms beginning December 20, at 12:01 PM PST. For more information on what realms will be eligible for these free moves and exact dates please visit the announcement post made here.
In the event that a realm meets their transfer goals before the scheduled end date, the transfers to that realm will be disabled. They highly recommend that if you are planning to transfer that you do so at your earliest convenience.
-- Sprawl @ 9:25 PST
 | |  | |  | | Wednesday, 19 December, 2007 | |
| Tuesday, 18 December, 2007 | |
| | | | | Rolling Restarts for the Holidays
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
Over the holidays, on December 25th and January 1st, Blizzard will be performing a series of rolling restarts for all realms starting at 5:00 AM PDT, in lieu of weekly maintenance. Each realm is anticipated to be down for no more than 15 minutes, and should additional maintenance be necessary, we they will notify our players in advance. Have a happy holiday!
-- Sprawl @ 12:28 PST
Holiday Screenshot and Holiday Dessert Contests
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
It's that time of year when all of Azeroth celebrates Winter Veil. The snowballs are flying and so are the reindeer. To help everyone get into the spirit, we are running two holiday contests!
The Royal Photographic Society of Azeroth has begun looking for the best depictions of holiday celebrations in the World of Warcraft, so keep your eyes open for good screenshot opportunities.
It's also time to show off your culinary skills. We're looking for your cakes, candies, cookies, and gingerbread houses of your best Warcraft-, StarCraft, or Diablo- inspired creations. We'll be picking five winners for the best cakes, five winners for the best candies or cookies, and five winners for the best gingerbread houses.
To learn more about these two contests, click here.
-- Sprawl @ 7:33 PST
Verne Troyer Commercial Released
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
Verne Troyer (of Austin Powers 'Mini-me' fame) is master of the arcane in this third and final holiday commercial for World of Warcraft.
Click here to view the spot, along with the previously released William Shatner and Mr. T commercials.
-- Sprawl @ 7:32 PST
| | | | | | Monday, 17 December, 2007 | |
| Sunday, 16 December, 2007 | |
| Saturday, 15 December, 2007 | |
| | | | | World of Warcraft Tops Nielsen Ratings
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
From GI: The Nielsen Company, which first started tracking videogame usage in the US this year, has released data for the period April to November 2007. Among PC game players, World of Warcraft was the clear favorite, with players averaging 1,023 minutes or just over 17 hours per week. The second most popular PC title, The Sims, averaged just under 5 hours per week. Read the full article here.
-- Sprawl @ 5:49 PST
The Feast of Winter Veil Begins
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News - The Burning Crusade
The Feast of the Winter Veil begins today in Azeroth. Whether you have been naughty or nice, be sure to visit Grandfather Winter this year, have some cookies, toss a few snowballs and enjoy the holiday season. New this year, we have a few new recipes and snowflakes!
Happy Holidays.
-- Sprawl @ 5:40 PST
| | | | | | Friday, 14 December, 2007 | |
| | | | | Ode to Winter Veil
Print News | Category: Site News
The staff at the WoW Vault wish to extend a warm happy holidays to the World of Warcraft Community with a 12 part Ode to Winter Veil.
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On the First Day of Winter Veil my guildies gave to me..
One Greatfather Winter
"Ironforge has the only true Greatfather Winter. I swear the Greatfather Winter at Orgrimmar has a fake beard.."
Next: The Second Day of Winter Veil
Look for it here on the General Forums tomorrow!
View this post on the Official Forums
-- Rill_of_WE @ 9:36 PST
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