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The wonder and terror of collectible card games is that they evolve and expand over time to continue demanding your time and money and attention and love and it’s just too much and I can’t deal with it, as I may have mentioned earlier today. Blizzard are hooked into this cruel cycle with Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and today announced the first major addition to its virtual CCG since last month’s launch.

Hearthstone will kick off its single-player Adventure Mode with Curse of Naxxramas, an adaptation of a raid from World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. Expect boss battles, new cards to collect, and new ways to pay.

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Courtesy of Blizzard, here's a look at what the Tauren will look, move and act like in World of Warcraft's new expansion-slash-graphical-update, Warlords of Draenor. Read more...

I like this World of Warcraft wedding. Sure, it might not have the costumes we've seen in others, but that's what I like about it; it skates the knife's edge between "themed" and "normal" wedding almost perfectly.Read more...

"The Love is in the Air quest 'Crushing the Crown' has been renamed 'Crushing the Candy'. Bring it." Oh how I adore you, annual fake World of Warcraft patch notes. Read more...

Jen and Nick didn't meet online, but they've developed their relationship through playing World of Warcraft together. So as their relationship grew, they finally decided to build their entire wedding —a real one, not one in Stormwind's Cathedral Square—around WoW.Read more...

Remember that one seasonal quest in World of Warcraft, where you have to find someone playing with a dwarven female character? It took ages. Blizzard's new render of the character model looks really good (though it would be even better with beards). It'll hopefully spawn more of them.Read more...

Win three Hearthstone matches, get an epic World of Warcraft mount. The easiest epic mount ever, or the hardest? That's all up to your collectible card gaming skills. Hearthstone is now playable by everyone for free, right here. Read more...

We already knew that Vin Diesel had a World of Warcraft past, and now there's direct proof. He just shared a video on his official Facebook page, where he roams around in Tanaris, with the late Paul Walker, back in 2010.Read more...

The World of Warcraft community was up in arms last week, when WoW Insider spotted a level 90 boost item available briefly in the in-game store for $60. Speaking to Eurogamer, lead encounter designer Ion Hazzikostas says the high price tag was established to ensure Blizzard didn't "devalue the accomplishment of levelling".Read more...

What would Thrall, Jaina and the average NPCs of World of Warcraft do on their imaginary YouTube channels? SlightlyImpressive shows us—with some amazing voice acting—that they would handle it pretty well.Read more...

At what point does a microtransaction cease to be a microtransaction? It’s a question that’s plagued my more contemplative brain tubules for years now, twisting the follicles of my whiskey soaked beard until they snap. But finally, I think I have an answer: when it’s the price of a full goddamn game. We already knew that World of Warcraft‘s Warlords of Draenor expansion would bring with it the option to boost one of your characters straight to level 90, but what if you don’t want the expansion or need another boost (come on, man – just one more that’s it I promise)? Well, do you have $60 you’re prepared to fling into Blizzard’s abyssal bank account? Are… are you sure?

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Of all the race/sex combinations getting a graphical overhaul in World of Warcraft's upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion, none needed it as much as the female Orc. How I hated her stupid old face. Read more...

Anders Behring Brevik killed 77 people in Norway in 2011. Since he said that he used Call of Duty to practice his aiming and World of Warcraft to hide his plans, video games have been became part of the story of his horrific crime. Now, 18 months into a 21-year prison sentence, he's demanding that his PS2 be upgraded to a PS3.Read more...

Matt and Brittany met in WoW via their guild. Then, well, things got complicated. And cute.

Has it really been that long? World of Warcraft first went live in November or 2004, quickly becoming one of the biggest, most recognized MMORPG games in the world. Danielle "Panser" Mackey walks us through everything that's happened since then. Read more...

Who said World of Warcraft was dying? For the first time in a long time, the game's playerbase has stopped the rot, going from 7.6 million user last year to 7.8 today.Read more...

The numbers may be shrinking a bit in recent years but, when you look at it, the sheer aggregate of people who've made a toon, joined a raid or bought a pet in World of Warcraft is still mind-boggling.Read more...

What's better than one violinist and two singers performing epic World of Warcraft music? A whole fleet of digitally cloned singers and violinists performing epic World of Warcraft music, of course.Read more...

Poor Disney characters, they have to live through the weirdest transformations over and over. But there should be no escape for them, when the results are as good as LiberLibelula's World of Warcraft mashup on DeviantART, where—among others—Snow White is transformed into a female dwarven paladin.Read more...

Blizzard has identified a fake version of World of Warcraft's Curse Client add-on manager that secretly installs "trojan" malware onto users' computers, stealing account information and passwords.Read more...

A group of hackers going by the name DERP has launched DDoS attacks on a number of big games and websites today, bringing a number of them down, including the homepage of Electronic Arts.Read more...

A group of hackers going by the name DERP has launched DDoS attacks on a number of big games and websites today, bringing a number of them down, including the homepage of Electronic Arts.Read more...

Late last week, in Zhejiang province's Songyang county court, ten men were sentenced to prison terms of up to two years. These men didn't commit super heinous crimes, but they did commit a terrible one: they were found guilty of hacking and defrauding over 10,000 World of WarCraft accounts.Read more...

Last week John Stewart had a chance to slam the NSA for trawling for terror suspects in World of Warcraft, and now it's Stephen Colbert's turn to poke fun at national law enforcement's new fixation on Second Life.

The issue here stems from recent NSA documents which paint the organization as keen to infiltrate massively multiplayer online games. It believes that the relatively free, open chat systems in these games are rife with potential terrorist activity, though so far they've found nothing concrete (or at least nothing the public is allowed to know about).

You'll find footage of Colbert's episode beyond the jump, but the best bits start at the 1:00 mark. Whether or not the NSA is collecting valuable information is questionable, but at least they look like they're having fun in that virtual club.

Unlike the earlier Daily Show report which was rife with factual errors about the millennia-old Dwarven civilization that effectively shaped modern Azeroth, Colbert's discussion of Second Life is pretty spot on, even if he fails to mention the millionaire-hunting, flying penis drones.

Last week, Jon Stewart tackled the absurdity of the NSA spying on World of Warcraft because there might be terrorists playing it or something. This week, The Colbert Report chimed in with a look at spying on Second Life—"a game for people who don't have a first one!"Read more...

Want six minutes of intelligent discussion and reflection on the recent discovery of the government spying on your World of Warcraft raids? Oh, ok. Here you go. It's our own Kirk Hamilton on WNYC's "Studio 360" hosted by Kurt Anderson. Read more...

Last night's episode of The Daily Show tackled the hilariously unsettling news that the American and British governments are spying on games like World of Warcraft and Second Life.Read more...

The World of Warcraft movie doesn't just have a release date. It's got a cast now as well.Read more...

A popular Twitch.tv livestreamer had some unwanted guest stars yesterday evening—the Seminole County, Fla. Sheriff's Office, summoned by a troll who phoned in a report of someone threatening others with a knife. You can see it play out here.Read more...