World of Fighter is Street Fighter rip off

World of Fighter (yes there’s been a name change), the newest game from The9, the former publisher of WoW in China, is not going to be a WoW clone, or a Warhammer ripoff. Rather it seems to embody most of the characters from Capcom’s flagship title Street Fighter and a few of their other IPs.

The [...]

The Queue: rm -fR “World of Warcraft” && echo “Oops!”

Welcome back to The Queue, Wow.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky will be your host today.

Many thanks to Sacco for covering The Queue last Friday. For some odd reason he decided to start drawing this weekend, and you can see one of his [...]

Criticisms

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Corrupted Blood plague incident
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The Corrupted Blood plague incident was one of the first events [...]

Several hotfixes now live

I caught this a bit late, but Bornakk wrote into the Service Status forums Wednesday night to provide a list of hotfixes concerning Jewelcrafting, Shamans, Rogues, and Death Knights that have been applied to the live realms:

Icy Prisms are now unique; they cannot be mailed but can still be traded.
The Rogue ability Mutilate now does [...]

How to be useful on the PTR

Yep, another PTR post. For all we know, the recent frenzy surrounding the PTR has been manufactured by Blizzard as a practical joke while their programmers are out playing skee-ball. We don’t have the foggiest idea of when it’s going to hit, but back-channel discussion here at WoW Insider HQ currently has the smart money [...]

Sea Turtle gets new idle animation in patch 3.1.2

Patch 3.1.2 has added another entry into our list of things that are completely freaking adorable today. We didn’t notice this on the PTR for some reason (likely because everyone was busy playing premades that lacked turtles) but jumping in place on a Sea Turtle does something really quite cool. Your turtle hides in his [...]

Where in time is Azeroth?

There’s a great question fluttering around the community lately: just when are we anyway? It’s a good one for the Lore Nerd, actually, and maybe he can answer it in more detail than I can, but it’s almost a question of relativity as much as it is of lore. The official lore says that World [...]

The rise of the Failoc, Blizzard’s unwanted mascot

This morning, while the US slept, I sat trying to figure out something fun I could write to help keep the site going during the inevitable BlizzCon ticket chaos. Browsing for ideas, I stumbled across Blizzard’s unofficial mascot, the harbringer of chaos and mrgl-misery: the Failoc.
An ugly, unwanted child spawned from last year’s nightmare, the [...]

Fan-made Cuddle me Yoggy

Greyseer of Lorecrafted posted this cute little version (that site there is slow, but don’t worry, we’ve mirrored all the pictures for you to browse through below, so don’t take bandwidth from there if you don’t have to) of the Old God of Death the other day, and he’s just about as adorable as an [...]

The Daily Quest: Of Commandments, insane faction grinding and a little Johnny Cash

The Daily Quest took a break for a few days to stare longingly at Tier 8 armor and try to process the myriad class changes coming. But we’re back with a list of great WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.

Zasp at Egotistical Priest is already prepping for the Patch 3.1 achievement Insane in the Membrane. [...]