Ever wonder what the World of Warcraft characters do in them taverns? While it really doesn't take much out of the imagination, the Death Knights and Night Elves love to knock back a few after a hard day of raiding and farming. Now you can go and share the toast with them with these limited edition Rise of the Lich King Steins.

This is the gold mine right here. Literally. The WoW Gold Pig blog is running a contest for 500,000 WoW Gold. We’ve gotten wind of it, thanks to tips (and tweets) from the community, and so went further to fish out more info about it through their representative, Nick Gardner. Click on full article for the complete dibs.

A new patch for Blizzard's ever popular MMO game World of Warcraft is now available. WoW Client Patch 3.1.3 is mostly a class balancing patch with some more bug fixes. Read more to see the full changes.

And we shall definitely be looking forward to Konami's presentation at the upcoming E3 2009. The company is hyping up their attendance by promising "surprise guests and revolutionary announcements".

Anyone who's ever spent countless hours playing World of Warcraft may have noted, at some point, that the druids weren't scoring pretty well in the look-o-meter. For that, the devs behind the MMO have decided to give the nasty buggers fresh new textures for two major forms - the cat and bear. There's gonna be five different designs for each of these forms for the Horde and the Alliance, so they really went mad with the druid updating. More after the jump.

Blizzard has already announced that BlizzCon 2009 attendees will be getting a new pet, and today we finally get to see what it is: a Murloc Marine named Grunty. Check out a video of this little critter after the jump.

When it comes to iPhones and World of Warcraft, this won't be the first video showing how the latter could run on the former, with most of them being empty claims and mere mock-ups. This time, however, things may be a little different. Thanks to Vollee and the VolleeX engine, a video demonstration was put up on YouTube with the massively popular MMORPG running on an iPhone. See for yourself.

Patch 3.1.1 for World of Warcraft is coming this week, and it's gonna be just a minor bugfix patch. But to address the problem with the dual talent specialization system, players will have their talent points reset. Patch notes in the full article.

Yes folks, the QJ Giveaway spree is well underway! SOE gave us a ton of beta keys so that people can try out their upcoming Free Realms MMORPG, and already, we've been able to roll out the first batch of keys to our lucky QJ.NET readers - congrats guys, you know who you are! More beta keys strung up on our belts and chains, meaning everyone's still more than welcome to join in on the fun! We've even included a full 10-minute dev walkthrough of the game in the full article, just to get you guys started. Have fun!

Everybody loves getting in on a game early, and what better way to do that than with beta keys? Since we love you guys so much, we're giving away the Free Realms  PC beta keys we have in our possession so that you can go and explore the game's extremely open world before anyone else.