World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

Step into the front lobby at Blizzard Entertainment’s main office in Irvine, California, and you’ll see the Blizzard Museum to your left. The intimate room hosts many game awards, art, and concept designs for the studio’s many great games. However, take a closer look – and you’ll see a very special note from the parents of Mike Morhaime, president and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment…

Above: The courtyard outside the lobby at Blizzard HQ is guarded by this mighty orc

Located in Irvine, California, Blizzard Entertainment's headquarters is as impressive as the games the studio has developed. This is where the folks responsible for creating and running genre defining titles, like World of Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft get their work done – and we're very excited to offer you a look at where the magic happens. Come on in and check out our photos!

This week's giveaway includes two mighty mugs fresh from Undercity and Orgrimmar. But these are no run of the mill mugs - the Orgrimmar conveyance hath serviced the maw of Garrosh Hellscream while the Undercity tankard hath had only the finest undead meads sipped through the lips of Sylvanas Windrunner. At least that's what the Wiki tells me, because I have no idea what any of that crap means.

Above: Help us celebrate the release of the epic MMO expansion

Cataclysm is here. The latest expansion for World of Warcraft has launched, and players around the world are racing to level up their freshly minted goblins and worgens. But even if you’ve already got the game loaded and running, there’s a good chance that you don’t have all the extras included in the collector’s edition of the game. That’s why we’d like to celebrate the release of this most epic expansion by giving away a copy of the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Collector’s edition. Entering is easy! Full details inside…

We know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that you know a lot about MMO underwear. Everyone does. You’re probably thinking “Man, if there was a quiz about MMO underwear, I would totally ace it.” Well, you may think you’ve got a well-rounded education when it comes to the curve-age on a Blood Elf’s bosom, but that doesn’t mean anything unless you take our test. So explore these most uncanny valleys (if you dare) and find out how well you really know your MMO avatars…

We love horses. But we’re not sure if we love them enough to pay $25 so our WoW Priest can have a new in-game mount to ride. Yesterday, two new in-game pets for World of Warcraft were recently added to Blizzard’s online Pet Store. Currently, the most popular item of the two seems to be the Celestial Steed. According to the official product description, the Celestial Steed lets you “travel in style astride wings of pure elemental stardust” and allows players to travel at “310% speed.” In case you don’t play WoW, this means that this is a very fast mount.

It didn’t take long before wow.com starting diving into the numbers. Based on the price and the amount of players queued up to download the digital pet, the site estimated that Blizzard raked in $2 million just four hours after the Celestial Steed went on sale. The popularity and profitability of Blizzard’s recent sale has once again sparked the debate over DLC, with pet-loving collectors on one side and the anti-DLC crowd on the other…

Blizzard has announced plans for BlizzCon 2010, which will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in southern California from Friday, October 22 through Saturday, October 23. So what exactly will show goers get to see at this year's BlizzCon? Find out what Blizzard has to say and what we think it really means...

Warcraft is now 15 years old, and few have been more instrumental in its development than Chris Metzen. Starting on the original game as an animator, he moved over to writing and design with Warcraft II and has been responsible for expanding the story and lore since Blizzard decided to turn its real-time strategy game into a massively multiplayer epic. He’s now Blizzard’s vice president of creative development.

Food: In World of Warcraft, it’s good for the health and it’s good for the mana. But why should your avatar be the only one who gets to sample Azeroth’s most savory dishes? Meet Irillys, a Tauren Shaman on the Bloodscalp realm (in real life, Guinevere Mee); she’s on a culinary quest to make World of Warcraft’s in-game fantasy food a reality. Her first project, The Tauren Chef Cookbook, offers easy to follow recipes based on and inspired by food in the game

Blizzard loves its Easter eggs, and so do we. There are literally hundreds of hidden references to popular movies, television shows, music, and videogames. There are even nods to classic literature for you wordy types. Here’s a collection of some of our favorites along with details on how to hunt them down.