Realms have been down today since 3:00 a.m. PDT / 6:00 a.m. EDT. A few realms were up for a short time earlier this afternoon after the maintenance was extended, however they were promptly brought back down.

There is no indication as to what problems Blizzard has encountered. While the official forums and account management are [...]

Welcome to Lichborne. Your host is inflicted with the space plague this week, but has done his best to write for you people anyway, so be grateful, you hear?
We’ve covered 3.0.8 pretty extensively, between Mike Sacco’s coverage of the initial round of changes and our week before last discussion, but the devs weren’t done yet. [...]

So we have a 3 AM to 11 AM Pacific downtime today. But honestly, I’m sort of hoping it’s not for patch day, because I have a Death Knight column going live later this morning that assumes testing’s going to go on for another few weeks. Besides, they just added a few new tweaks to [...]

So It’s December 2nd. Normally, that means that your plans should probably include a quick trip out to Nagrand for a sack of gems. But a little something happened this past month that’s sort of changed that up a little bit. Still, maybe it’s a good idea to visit good old Gehze one more time, [...]

If you’re still trying to decide whether to grind rep with the Oracles or the Frenzyheart in Sholozar Basin, here’s something that might make up your mind: The Mysterious Egg, a reputation reward at revered with the Oracles. You’ll have to keep the egg on you for 7 days, but at the end of those [...]