You've read the E3 preview and you've watched the video interview. Now check out our behind-the-scenes interview with World of Warcraft lead designer Jeff Kaplan. We had a chance to sit down with Blizzard lead designer Jeff Kaplan during E3 to discuss the Burning Crusade expansion for World of Warcraft. We covered the new Draenei Alliance race announcement and detailed the new jewel-crafting skill in our E3 news and preview coverage, but we wanted to put together this Q&A to share the other interesting information that Kaplan revealed about the expansion

January 16, 2007 - As many of you already know, World of Warcraft's long awaited expansion, The Burning Crusade, was unleashed yesterday. Along with many of the eight million strong worldwide community, we unpacked our own retail boxes today. The two SKUs available at retailers, a standard version and collector's edition, happen to differ quite a bit, both in content and size. What kind of useless extra junk can you find in the collector's edition?

PC System Requirements OS: Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4); Windows XP (Service Pack 2) Processor: Intel Pentium3 800MHz or AMD Duron 800MHz ...

Jewelcrafting The new profession in The Burning Crusade is called jewelcrafting. If you intend to level it up, you'll want to match it with mining, as jewelcrafting uses plenty of ore and stone. If you want to switch a high-level character with mining over to jewelcrafting, then you'll have to spend plenty of time searching low-level zones for copper and tin to use to skill yourself up, or buy it on the auction house.

Past:(in progress) During Beta we were unstoppable, then we were slowly nerfed over the course of a year. Then BGs came out and we quickly discovered that once out of stealth we were easily the fastest class to die to focus fire and our role was slipping behind the front lines to kill half health eaters/drinkers or drop a clothie. The nerfing stopped at our class review. Then Cloak of Shadows came out and suddenly we had a way to kill that priest or warlock and actually live afterwards by wiping dots. It also helped survivability in BGs and Raids. Which brings us to today...

Four years have passed since the aftermath of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and a great tension now smolders throughout the ravaged world of Azeroth. The battle-worn races have begun to rebuild their shattered kingdoms over the last two years, but new threats, both ancient and ominous, arise to plague the world once again.

A Florida man who claimed he'd been unlawfully blocked from selling copies of his unofficial World of Warcraft guide by the wildly popular game's maker can resume his sales, owing to an out-of-court settlement reached Friday.

Note: This may contain references to other games, and is generally applicable to most MMORGPs and not specifically WoW.

Several months have passed since Blizzard announced the arrival of their first expansion for World of Warcraft, along with that announcement was a new horde race called the Blood Elves and the promise of a new Alliance race to be announced.

Famed and elusive comic praises Blizzard's popular MMORPG at San Francisco nightclub appearance. After indefinitely abandoning work on his hit Chappelle's Show, comedian Dave Chappelle absconded to South Africa to escape the fallout. Since returning to the US, he has made several unannounced appearances at Los Angeles comedy clubs, and this week played two little-publicized shows at the Punchline in San Francisco.