WoW News

Ready for a new look in World of Warcraft, but the barbershop’s just not cutting it? You can now change a character’s gender, face, skin color, and other cosmetic features (such as tauren horn styles or a night elf’s facial markings) using the brand-new Character Re-Customization service. Available at the page for a flat fee of $15, Character Re-Customization covers all available cosmetic options for a single character and includes an optional name change to go with your new look. For more information, see the — or log in to the now to begin the process of reinventing the new you!

Over the past two weeks, we have interviewed the runners-up and the winners of the European Regional Finals, Nihilum Plasma and x6tence, respectively. Today, you can read our overview of the teams from around the world which Nihilum Plasma and x6tence will be facing in their journey to the top spot of the BlizzCon World of Warcraft Arena Tournament. To learn more, check out our tournament page.

This past weekend brought the Warcraft Regional Finals for the World of Warcraft Arenas and Warcraft III to Madrid, Spain. The Blizzard Europe Community team has posted coverage of the two day event for anyone who could not make it to enjoy! Take a moment to check out the Regional Finals Day One and Day Two coverage on our forums. We have also posted the results of the World of Warcraft Arena Tournaments and Warcraft III on our Regional Finals site.

Thanks to everyone who showed up and made the Regional Finals such a great event! Also, good luck to the Arena Regional Finalists, X6tence and Nihilum Plasma and to the Warcraft III Regional Finalists, Happy, SaSe, and LucifroN7, all of whom will be competing in the Tournament Finals at BlizzCon in October!

We have just added a new wallpaper to our World of Warcraft wallpapers section. This wallpaper features some amazing artwork from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. Head over to the Upper Deck Entertainment website now to learn more about the game, see more art, or even download some demo decks.

This week’s wallpaper features an orc warlock contemplating the putrid puissance of his demonic powers.

Wrath of the Lich King has been on shelves for close to a month now, and the reviews from most major gaming media outlets are in. Check them out to see what people are saying about the newest addition to World of Warcraft:

And if you missed the initial batch of reviews from a couple of weeks ago, here they are again:

Blizzard Entertainment is pleased to present the brand new Oswald statue, to be presented to the best-in-category machinima submissions at BlizzCon 2008. The winners will be showered in prestige, and will write the first chapter in the history of our annual Oswald award.

Oswald recipients will be selected based on three categories for outstanding machinima production:

• Action/Adventure
• Comedy
• Drama/Romance

We look forward to awarding the talents of our finest machinima contestants this week at BlizzCon 2008!

Due to the enthusiasm of the Russian players in converting to the localized Russian World of Warcraft, we have decided to make the European to Russian account conversion process available again from 8 to 28 October (inclusive).

You should transfer your characters before converting your account. Thus, the free character migration from European to Russian realms has also been extended until 28 October. Please check our character migration FAQ for further information.