Eurogamer writes: "Amid the deluge of information on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm released at BlizzCon this weekend were a few morsels on the content and changes coming in future patches. The most interesting were at Saturday's dungeons and raids panel: a preview of Icecrown Citadel, and news that Blizzard will introduce cross-server dungeon grouping.

The latter feature will be implemented for five-man dungeons at first, although the technology does support larger raids too. It will work much like the current queue system for player-versus-player Battlegrounds, and draw players from the same pools of servers in their region, known as Battlegroups."
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Blend Games writes:

"An absolutely huge week for gaming news and media starting on August 16th and leading up to August 22nd. We kick things off with a few reviews, including one of Shadow Complex. Release dates have been set in place for Diablo 3 and M.A.G, amongst many others this week. Microsoft also announced Fable 3 during this year's GamesCom event and the real news-piling, eye-peeling buzz of the week came from Sony's camp and the revelation of the PS3 Slim and a new price-cut for the standard PlayStation 3. Not to be one-upped, Microsoft also let loose some information about Xbox 360 price-cuts."
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In an interview with IncGamers, Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce has stated that it is unlikely that the World of Warcraft modding community will have the ability to upload and sell mods on the new Battle.Net 2.0 Marketplace system.
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If you go to the World of Warcraft Cataclysm website you will find a funny thing, read the full story to find out what it is :)
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MassiveDamage writes: "As Diablo III, the first installment of Starcraft II and the recently announced third expansion to the World of Warcraft loom ever closer, Blizzard has taken steps to ensure that Battle.net becomes a one stop shop for gamers looking to play online. Launched in 1996 following the release of Diablo, Battle. net became the centerpiece of the Blizzard online experience. Seamlessly integrated with titles allowed for simplicity in account creation, as opposed to external online services. Additionally, an absence of membership fees would poise Battle.net to become a major selling point for Diablo and subsequent Blizzard titles. However, having existed in its current form without changes since 2003 has begun to call for some updates...."
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BlizzCon 2009 show goes live today 10:00 PST (8 PM GMT)

At BlizzCon 2009 we will cover about Diablo 3, World of Warcraft & Starcraft 2 at our Live Coverage Page.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Expansion is the biggest news gamers are expecting, including two new WoW Races: Goblin & Worgen.

Diablo 3: 4th Class is what gamers want to see, lots of debate, and the biggest bid have been somekind of Diablo 3 shooter (Archer/Hunter) Class.

Continue to follow the full Coverage about BlizzCon 2009
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Exclusive BlizzCon 2009 WoW Cataclysm Dungeon & Raid Q & A Transcript

Check out the BlizzCon 2009 transcript.
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World of Warcraft is popularly known as the largest gaming community in the world having gained an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records when it reached 10 million subscribers. Rob Pardo announced...
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If you were unable to get Blizzcon tickets before they sold out you can still watch the free live streaming video, pay for video, follow a live blog, or attend many other ways. Check out the free live video of BlizzCon 2009 embedded in the post.
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During the World of Warcraft Class Q&A session at the BlizzCon event earlier, the WoW developer panel announced that a race change service will be introduced after the upcoming paid faction service comes in.
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Blizzard has announced that Sam Raimi, best known for the Spiderman series, is going to direct the World of Warcraft movie.
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Blizzard Entertainment's Rob Pardo revealed the planned features for Battle.net 2.0, which will launch in 2010 with StarCraft II and be incorporated into World of WarCraft. The biggest change is the introduction of what Blizzard is calling "Real ID" that should eliminate "smurfing" accounts and ensure better matchmaking. Games will be tied to a specific account much like Steam or other digital distribution services. Battle.net 2.0 will be free, however.

Pardo believes that the new matchmaking system is more powerful than Microsoft's TrueSkill and when paired with Real ID, it should help players of all skill levels get into games that they have a chance to win. On this point, the ladder system has been improved to take player skill into account. After a player completes around 10 games, they will be placed into a skill tier. Within each skill tier, the player is matched up with 99 other players in 100 player divisions. The focus of the season is on competing with these 99 other players with tournaments taking place at the end of each season between division leaders.
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The official website for the new World of Warcraft expansion has now been pushed live by Blizzard following the announcement earlier.
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VG247: Here we go again with another liveblog kiddos.

This time it's BlizzCon 2009.Be sure and come back to this space for the Opening Ceremony of BlizzCon, and maybe, just maybe we will hear more about the rumored Cataclysm expansion for World of Warcraft, updates on StarCraft II and Diablo III - and who knows - Blizzard may announce its secret MMO.One can only dream.
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Mike Fahey of Kotaku writes:

"Too excited to wait until I got back to my hotel, I grabbed a seat at a table outside of the Anaheim Convention Center and sorted through the contents of my BlizzCon 2009 swag bag."
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At this year's BlizzCon, 3 Point Entertainment will present the latest addition in their line of World of Warcraft beer steins. It's called "Charge of the Great Dragonflight" and Blend Games has the first pictures.
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Russ Frushtick of MTV Multiplayer writes:

"Unfortunately not everyone is lucky enough to make the trip to Anaheim for BlizzCon 2009. Sure, you can buy one of the "digital passes," but that won't bring playable versions of "StarCraft 2" or "Diablo 3" into your home. Or will it? No, it won't. Sorry.

For you sad sacks, Blizzard has created "Failoc-alypse," a flash game which lets you kill marauding murlocs as one of three Blizzard IP characters: "Diablo 3"'s witch doctor, "StarCraft 2"'s Jim Raynor and "World of WarCraft"'s night elf."
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As part of the BlizzCon hoopla, Blizzard and (our parent company) Future US announced World of Warcraft: The Magazine, a quarterly publication that will be available this fall. For everybody who might think, “A print magazine about an online game? That’s folly!” consider this: The magazine will be 148 pages with no ads, and it won’t be sold on newsstands – they’re only going to print as many as they need to cover subscriptions. ... » Read More

From TechRadar: Subscriber only quarterly look into Azeroth by Future Publishing
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Blizzard has released the 2009 Blizzcon schedule....
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