World of Warcraft

Blizzard has just announced via its Warcraft Twitter account and the forums that the Customer Support team now has its own Twitter. The full text of the forum announcement is below:

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You can now follow all Blizzard Entertainment Customer Support news and updates on Twitter. Just head over to @BlizzardCS, (http://twitter.com/BlizzardCS) for the latest Support [...]

A judge in the California Central District Court ruled Thursday that Scapegaming, also known as Alyson Reeves, has lost its lawsuit against Blizzard. Scapegaming had set up private Blizzard servers that included a microtransactions market. Blizzard sued them in October 2009 for copyright infringement.
As we’ve covered here before, private servers are a violation of license [...]

Blizzard announced via the customer support forum that it will take proactive steps to quell some of the unsavory behavior on Moon Guard (US), a server notable for its infamous Goldshire inn naughty shenanigans. After a father posted about canceling his son’s account because of the general and trade chats on the Moon Guard server, [...]

Nethaera (Blizzard community manager) posted answers to some of the common Real ID questions and concerns on the forums today. With the PR disaster that was Blizzard’s original Real ID on the forums concept, a follow-up aimed at easing tensions in the community — even after the retraction — was to be expected. While Blizzard [...]

Welcome to The Lawbringer, WoW.com’s weekly examination of the intersection of law and the World of Warcraft. Amy is being attacked by the Bar Monster, so there’s a new, temporary sheriff in town.
Greetings, Lawbringer readers! As you’ll soon notice, I am not Amy. Amy is currently studying for the bar and I’ve been asked to [...]

It’s no secret that some addons, like GearScore, generate a numerical value for the gear of a player or players by inspecting their gear. Other addons also do inspect requests for other reasons. However, as of patch 3.3.5 it appears that the functionality of addons that automate inspect requests will be limited via server-side implementation [...]

Do you like writing? Well, if you do, and you like the various properties of Blizzard Entertainment (I’m going to have to assume that you do, what with this being a site dedicated to one of them and all), then good news, everybody! I’ve discovered a contest that will let you write about anything in [...]

While you’re waiting for Patch 3.3.5 to hit the live servers, you can check out Blizzard’s latest preview of the final raid instance in Wrath of the Lich King — the Ruby Sanctum. European Community Manager Wryxian just dropped by the forums to link the Under Development page for Ruby Sanctum, which contains some new [...]

PvP fans can rejoice — Blizzard released information today regarding the new Twin Peaks battleground today, located inside the Eastern Kingdoms’ new Twilight Highlands zone. Twin Peaks is described as a “10 vs. 10, capture-the-flag style battleground” reminiscent of Warsong Gulch.
Alliance players will be called to the defense of the Wildhammer Dwarves, who are fighting [...]

Suffer, mortals, as your pathetic mod betrays you! Come patch 3.3.5, Blizzard is disabling the functionality of the ultra-useful Augmented Virtual Reality (AVR) addon. The popular mod allows three-dimensional images to be shared between party members in real time to aid in raid strategy and positioning. It is perhaps best known for making the Sindragosa [...]