Hi, I’m Chris Robinson, senior art director of World of Warcraft. In this last installment of this four-part Artcraft series, WoW community manager Bashiok sat down with a few of the level designers who created Nagrand to pick their brains a bit more on the process of creating the zone. Hey everyone—so for all the […]

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to the recently released World of Warcraft patch 6.0.3. Hotfixes are updates we make on our end without requiring you to download a new patch. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require your realm […]

World of Warcraft Patch 6.0.3 Updated: 10-28-2014 Note: For the rest of the pre-Warlords expansion patch notes, please see The Iron Tide: 6.0.2 Patch Notes. World Event: Iron Horde Incursion Characters that have completed the Iron Horde Incursion event can now visit a vendor near their faction's respective beachhead to purchase replacement quest rewards. Report […]

Welcome back to our ongoing Artcraft series that takes a look at the environmental and zone design for World of Warcraft. I’m senior art director Chris Robinson, and today senior level designer Michael McInerney is going to take us through a more high-level design overview, again using Nagrand from Warlords of Draenor to illustrate our […]

Join us Wednesday, October 29 at 19:00 CET for a special live stream direct from Ashran. Designers Brian Holinka and Chris Kaleiki will be joined by community manager, Josh “Lore” Allen to provide commentary and share insights on all that Ashran has to offer. Players on the beta realms are also invited to play alongside […]

Hi, I’m Chris Robinson, senior art director of World of Warcraft, and welcome to a special edition of Artcraft focused on environment and zone design. Previously we showed you what it was like to create the Spires of Arak from a purely art-focused perspective, but over the coming days we’ll be releasing a series of […]

Self-proclaimed videogame nerds Jesse Cox and Wowcrendor have gathered a few of their friends to storm the frontlines of Draenor in an extension of their popular Cox n’ Crendor podcast and animated short series. You can catch their display of skill, comic agility, and utter madness in new episodes each week leading up to the […]

One week from today, on October 31, the top eight 3v3 Arena teams in the world will converge in ESL’s studios in Burbank, CA to commence the Blizzcon 2014 World of Warcraft Arena Championship, and you’re invited to watch the action in HD for free. Brackets and Matchups In this first round, two groups of […]

With the recent release of Patch 6.0.2, players who logged in to claim their Horde chopper between July 24, 2014 through September 30, 2014 can now get on their bike and ride. The Warlord's Deathwheel can be found within the Mounts tab (Shift-P in collections) and can be ridden by Horde characters with the appropriate […]

We’re thrilled to announce that Metallica will be performing the closing concert at BlizzCon 2014, playing before a sold-out convention crowd on the night of November 8! If you didn’t score tickets to the show, don’t worry—you can still get a front-row seat from home with the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket. BlizzCon is a gaming convention […]