Let’s say you have this friend, and let’s say you haven’t seen this friend in months. Some time ago he (or she) told you he was picking up World of Warcraft because he had heard that it was a pretty cool game. You warned him about the possibilities. You begged, you pleaded, for him not to do it. Alas, he bought it anyway. Now, sad and confused, you still want to include him in your holiday gift list. You’re not quite sure what he even likes anymore since that game has taken over his life. No worries! I, Astrella of Spawn Kill, have the perfect holiday gift solutions for you!

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Break out the party hats because it’s World of Warcraft’s fifth birthday! Blizzard is celebrating by giving all players an Onyxian Whelpling pet in-game starting today and lasting for just a few days. This baby model of his larger, more ferocious mother, will attempt to “deep breath” and just blow a puff of smoke.

If that milestone wasn’t great enough, Blizzard is celebrating their 15th birthday. Bitmob published an interview with Art Director Sam Didier, Lead Content Designer Cory Stockton, and Lead Systems Designer Greg Street in honor of their birthday today. It’s a great read if you’re interested in hearing lead developers discuss the past, present, and future of Blizzard Entertainment.

Happy birthday WoW and Blizzard!

Yesterday, the most popular MMORPG in the world, World of Warcraft, opened a virtual pet store on their website. For $10 each you can virtually own a ‘Lil KT or Pandaren Monk. With the purchase of the Panderan Monk 50% of the proceeds go to the Make a Wish foundation until December 31, 2009.

These cute little guys first appeared a few months ago data-mined through MMO-Champion, along with a video of the Panderan Monk idle animation. Since the release of these pets it’s rumored that ‘Lil KT frostbolts cats that it sees! If you play World of Warcraft and have been to the Naxxramas raid, you know the deal with Kel’Thuzad and the cat Mr. Bigglesworth.

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Blizzard Poster, Daelo, announced the new set of Icecrown raid testing for this week! Don’t forget to leave your feedback on the official PTR forums if you’re going to be raiding Icecrown this week.

You can read the full post below with all the raid test times!

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Today, Blizzard announced the first round of Icecrown raid testing on the Public Test Realm (PTR). For anyone that is living under a rock, Icecrown Citadel is going to be the final raid of the “Wrath of the Lich King” expansion for World of Warcraft, or so Blizzard tells us (I still have my suspicions about that). Daelodev from the US forums said in a post:

We are scheduling raid tests in Icecrown Citadel for October 21-22.

The schedule is as follows:

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Earlier this year Blizzard introduced Battle.net to WoW players as a way to converge their WoW accounts, keep track of other Blizzard CD keys, and to make purchases at the Blizzard store. Most people didn’t adopt Battle.net right away because, really, what’s the point if you only have one account? As time went by more and more people started to hop on the Battle.net bandwagon when they started making offers of in-game items for Battle.net account holders only. People naturally thought: “The service is free, so why not?”

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People seem to have a difficult time quitting MMORPGs (that’s Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games to those of you living in bomb shelters who are only allowed to resurface to read Spawn Kill articles).  Warcraftrealms.com, a popular statistic site for World of Warcraft, shows that there are approximately 6.3 million people active in WoW between the US and Europe.  That’s about six times the number of any other MMORPG currently on the market, at least in the West.  Of the 6.3 million people, how many do you think have been playing for more than two years?  Three?  Since launch?  Given rerolling and inaccurate data, it’s probably not feasible to gauge something like that, but the numbers would frighten. 

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This worries me ever so slightly, but this kid needs to be picked up for the next Exorcist sequel’s starring role. Here’s what happens when a mother cancels her little hellion’s World of Warcraft account. Oh dear. Oh my. MolotovCupcake told me she prays that it’s fake, but I can’t say I don’t doubt the ability for this to be real! So real it hurts. You WoW junkies scare me more than any crystal meth addict I have ever met. See the video below the tag.

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Coming soon to the World of Warcraft is the Isle of Conquest, offering players a new place to flex their gear hoarding muscle. The premise this island is based on places two opposing generals at the helm of both factions, Horde and Alliance. What differentiates this from previous battleground additions to the game is that each side is going to war with 40 players; something not seen in World of Warcraft since Alterac Valley was introduced long ago.

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