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The Maelstrom is probably epic enough for you now

A week or so ago, someone on the Cataclysm beta forums complained that the Maelstrom’s appearance in the upcoming expansion just wasn’t epic enough. It’s a pretty silly thing to say. Valnoth, aka WoW Lead World Designer Alex Afrasiabi, apparently agre…

Cataclysm Beta: Twilight Highlands and Uldum galleries

Twilight Highlands and Uldum aren’t technically open yet in the Cataclysm beta, but when have invisible walls ever stopped someone who really wanted to get into a zone? Resourceful tester Lemon King sends us these monster galleries of questing through…

Cataclysm closed beta live stream

And we’re done for tonight folks, thanks for tuning in!

The WoW.com team is streaming again tonight over on our Justin.tv channel, or you can simply watch via the embed above. Tonight Anne Stickney will be showing us the continuing adventures of Lun…

Email confirmation added to authenticator setup to foil hackers

For a while now, account thieves have been putting authenticators on their stolen accounts to buy more time for their scumbaggery. Blizzard has recently made that more difficult by requiring email confirmation when an authenticator is added to a Battl…

Cataclysm Beta: Northern Stranglethorn and The Cape of Stranglethorn

There are several reasons people disliked Stranglethorn Vale in vanilla WoW. I could go into detail about the confusion that The Green Hills of Stranglethorn presents to new players. I could tell you about the lack of coherent direction in questing. I…

Upcoming level and zone changes in Cataclysm

Nethaera (Blizzard community representative) has posted some new, interesting information about the leveling experience in Cataclysm. Mount Hyjal and Vashj’ir, the two opening zones of the expansion, will now require level 80 to enter and begin ques…

The Daily Blues

Each day WoW.com will take you through all the blue posts and other Blizzard news from around the internet. From Ghostcrawler’s latest posts to the lowdown on StarCraft II and Diablo III, we’ll keep you informed.

A couple notes. First, we’re going to…

Icecrown raid buff now at 30%

Good news, everyone! Your faction specific Icecrown Citadel buff is now 30%, meaning things just got a little more lenient in ICC. Now’s your chance to capitalize on the content in there to get alts ready for Cataclysm, finish off those drakes you’ve …

Curse acquires MMO-Champion

Yesterday, Curse.com announced the acquisition of MMO-Champion from its owners, Major League Gaming. Boubouille, the big dog over at MMO-Champion, is heading to the Curse team as well. This is some pretty exciting news for the Curse network!

Curse, w…

24 hour maintenance for select servers on Tuesday

Blizzard has released the next list of servers that will be unplayable for 24 hours. Starting at midnight PDT (3 a.m. EDT) tonight and ending around midnight PDT tomorrow, a large number of realms will be down for extended maintenance.

Included on th…