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#guildwars Guild Wars, the first game, didn't offer a whole array of character races for players to choose from. Players were always human, even while free to play with variations on appearance. And it seems that Guild Wars players who got used to their looks have brought that bias with them into Guild Wars 2. More »

#chriskluwe Football is a role-playing game. That's how Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and noted World of Warcraft and RPG fan, is approaching it. Each week in the NFL, ChrisWarcraft characterizes his upcoming game in terms of an MMO quest. We're going to chart his progress and see how fast he levels up. More »

No-one’s immune to hacking, and the bigger they are the harder they fall (but more quickly they recover, given the megabucks, etc). Over the weekend, someone manage to slip a knife into World of Warcraft’s ribs, finding an exploit that allowed the usually near-invincible NPCs inhabiting the capital cities of Stormwind and Ogrimmar to become as weak as asthmatic kitten. Slaughter inevitably followed.(more…)

#worldofwarcraft From the sound of it, this level 1 character is one of a few hackers who discovered a bug or an exploit that allowed them to fly about World of Warcraft, insta-killing everyone. The plague broke out this weekend on multiple servers, and was seen in Stormwind, the Alliance capitol. More »

Entire cities of players and NPCs in World of Warcraft are being wiped out in a solitary blow, WoW Insider reports. The death traps began on European servers, in the cities of Ogrimmar and Stormwind, and have since spread to Tarren Mill, Ragnaros, Draenor, Twisting Nether and other realms, and include US servers, according to player reports.

A few videos document the phenomenon, showing level one characters insta-killing everyone in the area and the subsequent graveyards. The above video shows a level one Priest as he takes out everyone around him in Stormwind (the YouTube description reads, "The guy laughing is not the hacker!").

Blizzard has yet to comment officially.

#chriskluwe Football is a role-playing game. That's how Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and noted World of Warcraft and RPG fan, is approaching it. Each week in the NFL, ChrisWarcraft characterizes his upcoming game in terms of an MMO quest. We're going to chart his progress and see how fast he levels up. More »

As a child, one of my first Real Person (read: PC) games was Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness. Back in those days, the Horde and Alliance, well, they didn’t like each other so much. There was, I suppose you could say, a whole lot less crafting and a rather sizable helping of war. But times have changed, and so has the world of Warcraft. For one, it grew a world. That’s fairly significant. But with rather unpleasant-sounding crusades and apocalypse dragons came a certain level of necessary chumminess between the warring factions. According to Blizzard, however, Mists of Pandaria’s first major update is about to (finally) change all of that.

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#worldofwarcraft Editor's note: This piece was republished with permission from NBC News InGame. More »

#worldofwarcraft World of Warcraft has always been notorious for having tons of video game and pop culture references and Mists of Pandaria tries really hard to set a new record. Here's what we dug up so far. Let us know in the comments if you've found others. More »

#facebook Sitting down and catching up on all the news this morning, a pair of headlines jumped out at me. Both were, in a sense, subscriber numbers. Each, by itself, is mildly interesting. Together, though, the figures paint a clear picture of why game development today is moving in a particular direction. More »

#worldofwarcraft Colleen Lachowicz is running for state senate in Waterville, Maine. She also plays a lot of World of Warcraft. According to Maine Republicans, this means that she is unfit for office. More »

#worldofwarcraft Hey, it's Athene, the self-styled (and partly accurate) "world's best gamer"3. Hitting the streets in one of his "IRL" videos. It starts as though it's going to be four-and-a-half minutes of painful trolling, but actually turns into a pretty neat "man on the street" interview with one serious World of Warcraft player. More »

#worldofwarcraft While Kate is working the latest World of Warcraft expansion pack from the bottom up, I am tasked with taking my level 85 character to level 90, exploring what's new for the high level crowd. It's not going well so far. More »

#worldofwarcraft [The Mists of Pandaria expansion to World of Warcraft introduces new content in the starter levels as well as in the late game. This is a look at how new, low-level content appears to a new player. We'll also be posting a look at Pandaria's new level 80-90 zones, and the veteran perspective, from a more experienced hand.] More »

#watchthis Wow. I live in New York, so I've seen my fair share of talented sand artists, but I've never seen someone pinch and play with sand the way Silvia Emme does in the video above. More »

#wow Think you have it rough? Try being a World of Warcraft player in China. You have to deal with Western gamers who think all Chinese gamers are gold farmers as well as unfair stereotypes at home. And that's not all of it! More »

#worldofwarcraft The Mists of Pandaria parted in World of Warcraft last week, unlocking a long-hidden, lore-heavy civilization for players of the popular MMO to explore. The most enjoyable tale out of the land of pandas, however, can be found between the covers of the Pearl of Pandaria graphic novel — a work that began development before the expansion pack was a going concern. More »

#chriskluwe Football is a role-playing game. That's how Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and noted World of Warcraft and RPG fan, is approaching it. Each week in the NFL, ChrisWarcraft characterizes his upcoming game in terms of an MMO quest. We're going to chart his progress and see how fast he levels up. More »

#worldofwarcraft Somehow this is the first time I've gotten my hands on World of Warcraft's version of Pokemon. This short video will give you a basic overview of what the next few months of PC gaming hold for me. More »

#worldofwarcraft World of Warcraft's next expansion has gone live in North America, and the first thing I did was transform my Worgen into a Panda. And give him a sex change, because tails. More »

#worldofwarcraft Wow. That didn't take long. World of Warcraft expansion Mists of Pandaria isn't even out yet for most people (it unlocks in a few hours), but already it looks like we've got someone breaking through to hit the game's new ceiling of Level 90. More »

#worldofwarcraft This shot of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria was snapped by Dutch Twitter user Nederob just two minutes after the game was unlocked in Europe. More »

#watchthis Straight from the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria launch in Europe (the game went live 34 minutes ago), here's the parade Blizzard put on just before that. It's a themed parade. Notice? More »

#blizzard Windows 8 doesn't officially launch until October, but the dramatic changes to the OS most gaming PCs use have already proven quite controversial. More »

We know World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria has kung-fun pandas in it. I’ve seen it on adverts on the telly and everything. What else does it have in it? Well, if you’ve got seven minutes you can find out, with the below flyover trailer that runs through some of the new zones, enemies, abilities and dungeons to be found in WoW’s fourth expansion. It’s like a timeshare brochure, but with flying ships, angry crab-men and Chinese temples.(more…)

#chriskluwe Haven't you heard? Football is a role-playing game. Or at least, that's how Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and noted World of Warcraft and RPG fan, seems to be approaching it. More »

#worldofwarcraft Boxes containing World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria are making their way out into the world. That's all well and good, but the panda-themed expansion won't be accessible until 12:01 a.m. Pacific time on Tuesday September 25, no matter how soon players install it. More »

#worldofwarcraft How many pandas can you count inside the box to World of Warcraft's next expansion? If you answered "all the pandas", you'd be on the right track. More »

#worldofwarcraft The next World of Warcraft expansion is only a week away, which gives me something to do until November, when the official Mists of Pandaria panda hoodie I just ordered from Jinx arrives More »

#chriskluwe Last week Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and noted World of Warcraft and RPG fan, cast his team's season opener in terms of an MMO quest. He's done the same thing this week so we'll hold him to it and chart his progress. More »