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The worst possible thing to happen to a MMO player is getting their account hacked. All the work that you put in to your account can be gone and the process of getting your character and items back is a painful and long process. Companies of course take steps to protect customers like Blizzard’s Authenticator [...]

The Pandaren Monk is an exclusive in-game pet for Blizzard’s popular World of Warcraft. The Pandaren Monk was made available on November 4th 2009 and retailed for $10. Blizzard stated that from November to December, for every Pandaren Monk sold they would donate half of the proceeds to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
On February 16th Blizzard reported [...]

This is a little late but I hope everyone had a happy Valentine’s Day. In World of Warcraft there is a special event called Love is in the Air to celebrate V-Day. The event started on the 7th and ends on the 21st. These holiday events that Blizzard makes always have special and novelty items [...]

For those of us who have played World of Warcraft or even the original Warcraft series, the Lich King should be a familiar character to us. On Tuesday Blizzard released the final wing of Icecrown Citadel which also contains the frozen throne where the Lich King resides.Even though the new wing has been out [...]

Blizzard has recently updated the World of Warcraft Armory, which for those of you who don’t know, is a site where you can search for specific players, arena teams, etc. The updated WoW Armory has a few new features.

The first thing major change they put in is the 3D model viewer. When you search for a [...]

My last post about Risk versus Reward started a couple interesting conversations both here and offline. Those conversations brought a couple of interesting points to light.
The main thing I have discovered is that most players and game devs tend to jam the concepts of challenge and risk together and call that “risk”. If an encounter is hard, [...]

If you are an MMO player and bother to follow MMOs enough, then you likely have heard the term “Risk versus Reward” thrown around. For those of you who thought you were going to the home page of an investment firm or Hasbro, Risk versus Reward is a term MMO developers use to describe the [...]

For those of you who play World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, you might have noticed that trash mobs aren’t as mindless and boring as they used to be. Yes folks, gone are the days of trash pulls that required no thought. It has become standard these days for tanks to just [...]

Blizzard promised a revamped LFG system at this year’s BlizzCon, and the company is finally starting to deliver on the promise.  Players will be able to take the updates for a spin alongside Icecrown Citadel in Patch 3.3, instead of waiting for Cataclysm, World of Warcraft’s third expansion.
There’s a parade of changes to the system, [...]

Blizzard Entertainment’s European division broke some news earlier today, and the vanity pet collectors out there should pay attention.  To reward players for merging their World of Warcraft accounts with their Battle.net accounts Blizzard will be handing out a pet.  No strings attached.  No grinding, hunting for eggs, or collecting tickets.
The new pet isn’t exactly [...]