How do you celebrate the holidays in Blizzards world? With gnomes dressed up like Santa, building decorated with colored lights and snowball fights. All of it is the video below.

Eight years ago Blizzard released the Brood War expansion pack for Starcraft and people are still logging on to battle.net to play it. The expansion pack added only a few units for each side, but these minor additions led to huge gameplay changes. Invisible units like Lurkers and Dark Templar forced players to beef up [...]

Blizzard has been netting a handful of marketing tie ins. First there was the South Park episode and now the classic movie Office Space is used for this commercial. I believe this scene was when Peter was playing Tetris, but instead the screen is replaced with WOW. Levelling an orc raider sure beats doing TPS [...]

The final results for the World Cyber Games are in and South Korea took the top prize. Sweeping Starcraft: Brood War and finishing first in WarHammer 40,000 got them the top spot. Russia grabbed a gold and a silver for Need for Speed Most Wanted, which earned them second place. Meanwhile Germany got third place [...]

CESA released their picks for the best games released between April 1, 2005 and March 31 2006. The list is fairly predictable. Animal Crossing: Wild World, Final Fantasy XII and Shadow of the Colossus snag awards. World of Warcraft also gets props as it received the award for the best game designed outside of Japan. [...]

The tenth season of South Park kicks off with an episode on World of Warcraft. The story is that a renegade gamer wants to destroy the online world. The creators of WoW have no idea how to stop the gamer so they hand the task over to Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny. Watch the two [...]

A 1,000 euros ($1271 in US dollars) is cold hard cash. You could presumably buy a Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii plus a couple of games with that kind of dough. Or you can splurge on eBay for all kinds of gaming goods. In France on seller has prototype carts of Romancing Saga 3 [...]

At Blizzcon 2005 Blizzard gave out a special code to each attendee so they can get their very own baby Murloc pet. What does this special pet do? It shouts the trademark phrase "Grrrrmalrrrrgrrahhhh" and dances on screen. The card is also valid for bringing a player into a beta test. One person believes they [...]

Summer being in full swing it’s time for some college students to go out and find work. That means putting down the joystick or keyboard and entering the real world. Or does it? If you’re around Freemont California you can shack up with Dr. Hu and get a job playing World of Warcraft. The company [...]

When Yahoo! was looking for a new managerial candidate they had plenty of capable applicants. One thing put Stephen Gillett above the pack, being a WOW guild master. Yahoo recognized that Gillett must have had a background in leadership to efficiently manage a group of gamers. Wired magazine says, “the process of becoming an effective [...]

Recently a video popped on YouTube with the inquisitive title Starcraft 2. Unfortunately this 3D trailer isn’t Blizzard’s work. It’s actually a mod for Command and Conquers: Generals called StarKillers. The mod adds in units from Starcraft and parodies from movies like the Matrix. You can download the mod here and check out the trailer [...]

Hidden after the last mission in Starcraft:Brood War is a secret mission called Dark Origin. This mission is only playable if you beat the last Zerg story mission in under twenty five minutes. If you have the rare Nintendo 64 cart, Starcraft 64, you can play an additional hidden mission, Resurrection IV if you beat [...]