Month: September 2009

Welcome to the newly redesigned Blizzard.com! Featuring a brand-new design, this website is the focal point for all official Blizzard Entertainment news, press releases, and much, much more.

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  Games section
  : The updated games section includes links to our current projects as well as detailed information for all of our previously released games, including trailers, screenshots, concept art, wallpapers, and more.
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  Company section
  : This section is all about Blizzard Entertainment as a company – it features our company profile, core values, partners, career opportunities, event information, and updated press center.
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  Community section
  : This is your first stop for all community-related Blizzard Entertainment content, including the Blizzard Insider email newsletter archive, past and current contests, our fan art gallery, and BlizzCast, our official podcast.

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Fresh from their debut at BlizzCon 2009, the fun and adorable murloc plush dolls, two of the hottest items for sale at the show, are now available to the general public via the Blizzard Online Store. The blue Murky plush doll and the white Lurky plush doll are only $15.00 each, but will only be available while supplies last, so visit the
Blizzard Online Store before it’s too late.

Brewfest is in full swing: the oompah band is playing, the pink elekks are running loose, and wolpertingers abound. To keep the celebration going long after the breweries close up shop and the tents come down, we’re giving away five genuine Tankard O’ Terror mug replicas from Taverncraft as prizes in our screenshot contest. Send us your best, funniest, and most amazing Brewfest screenshots and you could win.

For more information and contest rules please visit our contest page.

SwagDog has just introduced a brand-new design for their custom-made World of Warcraft guild apparel. The Guild Icon design displays your guild’s name and tabard icon against a black background to show off your guild’s identity in an attractive and distinctive way. Learn more at swagdog.com!

In conjunction with the annual Brewfest event taking place in World of Warcraft, Taverncraft is introducing a new limited-edition stein. As part their Replica Collection series of World of Warcraft steins, the Tankard O’Terror is the first stein that has been created from an actual in-game item. In-game, the Tankard O’Terror is a special item being introduced during Brewfest 2009 that players can discover while participating in the celebrations. The real-world replica is available for $39.99, and can be ordered from Taverncraft at
their website.

Sound the horn, brave adventurers! Brewfest is coming to a Biergarten near you, and you can join in the celebration and show your pride at this year’s festival with Brewfest Regalia, available now from J!NX.

After years of lurking in her lair, battling brave adventurers who travelled from afar, Onyxia has been reborn — and she’s stronger than ever before. To commemorate the upcoming fifth anniversary of World of Warcraft, the classic Onyxia raid encounter has been updated in the newly released patch 3.2.2.

• Onyxia has been retuned to offer new challenges to level-80 players (in both 10- and 25-player modes) while keeping the fundamental experience of fighting her intact. Beware the Deep Breaths!
• Onyxia will now drop new level-80 gear featuring the aesthetics of loot from the original encounter.
• The luckiest adventurers will have a chance to receive the Brood of Onyxia, a very rare 310%-speed mount modeled after the Brood Mother herself.

You can check out all of the other changes in patch 3.2.2 by reading the full patch notes.

We’ve updated our BlizzCon photo galleries with a new gallery featuring n00bz figures at BlizzCon. You can view other galleries by selecting the dropdown menu at the top right of the galleries page.