WoW News

Printwarcraft.com now offers the opportunity to create your own customized World of Warcraft mouse pad featuring the character you play. Much like custom character posters, these custom mousepads use specially designed rendering technology and access to character information, allowing you to select and pose your character while adding a variety of backgrounds, logos, borders, and fonts. Custom character mouse pads start at $19.99, and are available now at Printwarcraft.com

We’ve updated World of Warcraft’s five-year anniversary site to include a frank interview with Fraya, the leader of the Enigma guild on the Deathwing realm. In the interview, we speak with Fraya about his most memorable moments over five years of playing, Enigma’s experience in high-end raiding, and where the guild expects to find itself in Cataclysm and beyond. Check out the anniversary page for our full discussion.

Due to technical issues that prevented us from properly receiving Holiday Fan Art Calendar Contest submissions from Europe and Korea, we have extended the deadline for all entries until 11:59 PM PST, March 15. Players in every participating region will now have until this date to submit their original holiday-inspired, Warcraft-themed artwork for a chance to see their piece appear in the 2011 Official World of Warcraft Calendar! Check out the official rules or visit the contest website for more information.

Important note for all European and Korean participants: If you have already submitted artwork for this contest please make sure to visit the contest site and resubmit your artwork.

Week three of the Printwarcraft.com custom poster contest has come to an end, and after thousands of entries, we’ve chosen our third winner, Severedsoul of Spinebreaker. Be sure to check out the week three winner’s entry, as well as some other great entries here in the gallery.

Week four has just concluded, and we will announce the next round of winners out soon. This week we’ll be choosing one entry each as our grand prize, second place, and third place winners for even more prizes. Find out more on our contest page.

Thanks to the combined effort of Warcraft players from around the world, we have reached twenty thousand submissions, and the final piece of the World of Warcraft BattleCry Mosaic has been revealed. Head over to the World of Warcraft anniversary site now and check out the complete mosaic, which can only be described by one word: epic.

You can now look at the complete mosaic using the site’s mosaic viewer, download the original artwork wallpaper, and of course view the legendary-sized mosaic wallpaper. And while you’re there, make sure to also check out all the previously unlocked content.

Thank you to everyone who sent in their pictures to help us create a little piece of Warcraft history, and thank you to all our players around the world for your continued support. Lok’tar!

Check out the BattleCry page now, as well as our our updated special Battlecry Gallery (11 new).

The World Championship of the fourth Intel Extreme Masters (Electronic Sports League) in World of Warcraft 3v3 Arena will be held on March 2-4 at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany.

Twelve international teams will show lots of thrilling action while competing for an overall prize pool of $50,000. You can see all the matches live with English commentary on ESL TV — a free non-stop video stream. For more details, including team profiles, interviews with participants, and the video stream, see the
official coverage page.

We will be holding our next Developer Chat on Twitter on Friday, February 26, at 5:00 p.m. PST with World of Warcraft’s lead content designer and lead systems designer. This chat session will focus on Icecrown Citadel and other Fall of the Lich King content.

Questions will be taken live through Twitter, so be sure to sign up for a Twitter account and follow account @Warcraft in order to participate! For more information, visit the
forum post.

In our thirteenth BlizzCast episode, we focus on the recent start of the StarCraft II beta! An interview with the StarCraft II’s production director and game director discusses what beta testers and the overall StarCraft community can expect in the latest multiplayer version of the game. The developers also provide some insight into other topics such as the single player campaign, eSports, and macro mechanics. In our second segment, World of Warcraft and Diablo community managers take you through a Q&A segment sharing exciting information about how the future of those series are shaping up.

Check out BlizzCast 13 now!