When WoW’s lattermost expansion launched, you might remember it was Nightelf Druid Fs who first scaled the dizzy Pandarian heights of level 90. Hours later, however, she was sent packing by Blizzard amid accusations of cheating, and her account was reset to level 87.
Well. Nearly seven months on, Blizzard’s Ent Council have changed their minds.
If you’ve been absent from WoW for any length of time, you won’t know the Brawler’s Guild. Part advanced training ground, part bloodsport, the Guild allows players to develop their DPS against a variety of familiar bosses in arenas beneath Stormwind and Orgrimmar, while other players look on.
WoW patch 5.3 will see the Guild’s most significant shake up to date, say Blizzard, with the addition of two new tiers, a Challenge Card system, and a swanky VIP lounge.
It’s the question on every panda’s lips: when will World of Warcraft 5.2: The Thunder King arrive? And its companion follow-up question: will it maybe come on Tuesday? 
WoW patch 5.2 hit the Public Test Realm yesterday, so I’d like you to all join me in wishing a very warm welcome to our new guest, The Thunder King. I’m sure you’ll extend him every courtesy over the next few raids.The façade of 5.2 is new raid dungeon Throne of Thunder, which comes with a “multi-faceted” new quest hub to match: an island stronghold. Beyond that, there are assorted pet battle improvements, as well as new pets, mounts and world bosses, class rebalancings and various bug fixes. Full patch scroll to be unfurled below the break.Our Spotlight units plug content our journalists have made, that our advertisers want to promote. Sometimes the promotion is paid for, but the content they go to is always independent with no client oversight or approval.
If you're a World of Warcraft player, Greg Street is Important. He's the 'lead systems designer' of WoW: the person responsible for maintain some semblance of balance across all of WoW's classes and subclasses. That makes him the go-to man for WoW players to complain about their/someone else's class/spec being over/underpowered. 
Blizzard have been going door-to-door to visit WoW fansites through the night. WoW Insider answered their incessant knocking, dressing gown hastily donned and eyes narrowed in suspicion, only to find community manager Zarhym bellowing the following: “Patch 5.1, the first Mists of Pandaria content patch, is scheduled for release beginning on Tuesday morning, November 27 in North America.”
To give that number a little context, Cataclysm sold 3.3 million copies on its day of release, so there's a little bit of a sales drop here. That said, those still gargantuan sales have pushed World of Warcraft's subscription figures past the ten million mark, which is pretty damn impressive. Blizzard have also been busy making a special Collector’s Edition. Click through to see what it contains.
Mists of Pandaria’s out now, and, quite obviously, I’ve been playing it. Why? Because I love WoW with a kind of puppy dog enthusiasm that's unmatched in anyone I've met. I’ve got a whole heap of jumbled thoughts about what I’ve played so far (the Wandering Isles and the first chunk of the Jade Forest Horde side - although I played through the Wandering Isles during beta). I’m not going to call it a review in progress because a) we don’t do reviews yet and b) it’s dumb. But: here we go.
Mists of Pandaria has barely been on the market a full day and its already outselling the hugely popular Guild Wars 2.
You don't need reminding, but just in case you're that man I saw on a Channel 4 documentary with a fifteen second memory: Mists of Pandaria launched last night, introducing WoW players to a new world, a new class, a new race, a new batch of features and systems and pet battles and updates. All that excitement was enough to make us want to sit down with Darren Williams, WoW's Senior Gameplay Engineer and Scott Mercer, the game's Senior Game Designer and discuss how the grubby conflict between Alliance and Horde is corrupting Pandaria, why WoW will stick to its traditional questing guns and exactly how to launch an MMO without a server room catching fire. 
Blizzard are piloting a new technology letting them roll out the Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft without players even needing to log out of the game.
Mists of Pandaria is just a week away from release and Blizzard are leading WoW players into it with the launch of the game's first scenario, Theramore's Fall. The scenario will leave the world (of Warcraft) forever changed. If you want to get involved you better read on.
The 400-page books will be released on September 25th in both Signature Series and Limited Edition formats with an RRP of £14.99 and £19.99 respectively.
Along with releasing the new 660 and 650 cards in the past week, NVidia are throwing out a new driver update to optimise their cards for the upcoming release of both Borderlands 2 and Mists of Pandaria, making sure all of the features that you would expect and are looking forward to in those games run in tip top shape.
There's a fog of anticipation hanging in the air around fortress Blizzard, it's less than two weeks till the launch of Mists of Pandaria. By way of needing to look busy - by this point the patch has been loaded into its cage and suspended above the world... of warcraft and all it takes is for Michael Morhame to cut the rope securing the cage with his ceremonial knife - so they've released a patch to tweak a couple of spells and fix a number of bugs.
With World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria now only weeks away, here's what Lead Producer John Lagrave told us about the changes coming to PvP, and how Blizzard are addressing issues players have had with matchmaking and PvP gear.
We love Blizzard, but why they got to be so secretive sometimes? It’s a question that’s bothered us for years, often explained away with glum talk of corporate culture, now finally answered: All along, they’ve been busy organising a party and didn’t want to spoil the surprise, silly! 
World of Warcraft's just girded itself for Mists of Pandaria's September 25 release by patching itself up to five-oh-four, with servers now spluttering back into action, struggling to get their bearings in this brave new era. The Blizzard blog has the full patch 5.0.4 notes, which describe how extensively the game's systems have been tweaked in preparation for the Panda-spansion. You can now share pets across all of your characters, for a start, which the poor things probably find quite alarming.
Patch 5.0.4 goes live this week, prepping World of Warcraft for the upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion by introducing a whole host of dizzying new changes. This is an industrious patch, overhauling classes with its fresh new talent system, new animations, a crisp new character slot, AoE looting, tweaked XP requirements, account wide mounts and pets, and more. So much more. As ever, weekly EU server maintenance begins tomorrow - so expect 5.0.4 to slink into your life then.
To bring in those wary shoppers and ex-players to the World of Warcraft family, Blizzard have knocked 75% off the standard prices of all the currently released content. That means you can pick up the World of Warcraft Battlechest for $5, the Wrath of the Lych King for a further $5, and Cataclysm for $10. Netting you all of the World of Warcraft in the world for $20. Pretty neat, huh.
