Tips for the Wrecking Ball achievement

This forum thread is full of great advice and tips for the Wrecking Ball achievement, in which you’ve got to get 20 killing blows without dying in a battleground. The key here seems to be to find a place with lots and lots of folks to kill (a spawn point, like the graveyard in WSG, [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Why can’t I raid?

You may remember Taintedlore from her remake of The Womanizer Song. She’s hooked up with movie maker Leonnardum to create a new parody video, called Why can’t I raid? If you don’t recognize the music, it’s based of Rihanna’s song, Unfaithful.
The video’s pretty solid, and does a nice job of complimenting the lyrics. I like [...]

In other media

World of Warcraft has inspired artists to satirize and/or acknowledge its mark in popular culture. One example is the Emmy Award winning South Park episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft”.[100][101]
The game has also been used to advertise unrelated products, such as Toyota trucks.[102]
In late 2007, a series of television commercials for the game began airing featuring [...]

Arena tournament registration now open

Blue poster Vaneras over at the European forums announced that registration for the 2009 World of Warcraft Arena tournament is officially open in Europe. Aratil made a similar announcement for US players a few hours after. They remind all players that participants in the tournament, which follows a 3v3 format, will get the chance to [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Keep Browsing 2

Warning: The language in this movie is not safe for work.
Today on Moviewatch, we take a look at the second piece from MozQ — his first, Keep Browsing, was a fun little pastiche of geeky clips and fast cuts, and this one is more of the same. The animation has improved a little bit (the [...]

The Light and How to Swing It: The Tankadin for Dummies

I know a lot of you have asked for this, and I know I haven’t been delivering on the tanking front, so here it is. Today, we focus solely on Paladin tanks, who in my very humble opinion make the absolute best tanks in the game. With dual specs looming on the horizon, many of [...]

Wintergrasp bug plaguing servers after 3.1.2

We’re getting tons of reports in of Wintergrasp behaving a bit oddly today, and I can confirm them to be true on my home server of Cenarion Circle. Wintergrasp battles are lasting, at most, 5-10 minutes with no more than 10 minutes between battles. Good for farming Marks of Honor, not so good for trying [...]

Blizzard renews TeliaSonera agreement

Blizzard has renewed their agreement with a company called TeliaSonera to provide bandwidth for them in Europe. They just made a very similar deal with AT&T for the US — it’s the bandwidth that connects their servers to the millions of connections that lead back to your computer as you play World of Warcraft. Paul [...]