The Queue: Boom boom boom

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.
Todays edition of The Queue should be read while playing Boom Boom Pow in the background. It’s completely irrelevant to WoW or anything discussed today, but [...]

Breakfast Topic: Your favorite Alliance male dance?

So blue poster Ancilorn asked a question over on the EU official forums that was just offbeat enough that I thought I’d ask it here: What’s your favorite Alliance Male Dance?
I guess I never thought about it too much before, but really, Alliance male dances are just sort of… there. We have a bunch of [...]

[1.Local]: Making ourselves at home

Reader comments – ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week.
Welcome home to WoW.com. Moving into a new place can be hectic, but we think our new digs at WoW.com are pretty [...]

More information on 3.2 release date, Coliseum, new Battleground

Hot on the heels of the Under Development page for Patch 3.2, we received a few more tidbits of information from Community Manager Zarhym, responding to posts on the official forums. In bold are the players’ questions.
The Argent Coliseum: Does this mean a raid and a instance will be in there?
Yes, there will be a [...]

Studying WoWcology, where psychology and WoW meet

I’ve been meaning to write about this WoWcology blog for a few days now, but there’s just so much there — reader Skeuk is guilded up with a PhD in Psychology, who’s writing not only about the guild’s day to day battles, but also about how the deeper tenets of psychology can be seen in [...]

Seals? In MY purse? It’s more likely than you think

Amidst all of the cost rebalancing for Champion-level rewards in the Argent Tournament, the CMs have indicated that there would soon be new ways to obtain Champion’s Seals. With the advent of patch 3.1.2, it seems Blizzard has started to follow through on that!
We received a bunch of tips in the mail over the past [...]

European weekly maintenance: 20th May 2009

Good morning Europe! How are we all this week? Enjoying Azeroth? As usual, it’s maintenance time once more and today there is a little extra excitement in the form of patch 3.1.2.
So with this in mind, all the European realms will be down between 3am and 11am CEST. Taking into account past weeks, this can [...]

Breakfast Topic: Do you treat Azeroth as a virtual extension of the real world?

It never ceases to amaze me how huge Azeroth is. As I’ve leveled and explored, installed expansions and patches, that wonder has never left me. But of course, one of the reasons I like WoW so much is it’s not all about fighting and killing things twenty times larger than me. This week I’ve been [...]

BlizzCon tickets already on eBay

The first batch of tickets to this year’s BlizzCon in Anaheim sold out less than thirty minutes after they became available on Blizzard’s Battle.Net store. While some buyers included sincere conference attendees such as our own Matt Low, the latest crop of goods over at eBay might provide another insight as to why the tickets [...]

Blizz doesn’t know what time BlizzCon tickets will go on sale

BlizzCon tickets go on sale in two days, this Saturday, May 16th. One question we at WoW Insider have received several times is: “when on Saturday do the tickets go on sale?” So far, Blizzard has been silent on this issue.
Turns out there’s a good reason for that – they don’t know themselves. Bornakk puts [...]