Keen on curbing the growing industry of Gold Farming in online games like the famous World of Warcraft, China has now set up a leaner definition of the terms "gold farming" as well as officially banning its practice, and limiting the use of virtual currency only for virtual goods and services.

Sony is taking credit for the existence of the hottest MMORPG around, World of Warcraft, saying that had it not been for their Everquest, WoW would not have existed to wow the gaming world as it does today. Lead designer Ryan Barker shares some choice words on the matter.

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.

Heads up World of Warcraft players, Blizzard has just released Patch 3.1.2 earlier today. The new patch adds the much awaited in-game equipment manager feature for the game. It also tweaks the PVP play, improved some character classes, adds Argent Tournament mounts and more bug fixes. Hit the link for the full patch notes.

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.

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.

Blizzard has dropped a pretty little trailer for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King's patch 3.1. The trailer focuses on the titan city Ulduar and the impending release of Yogg-Saron, the Old God of death imprisoned within the city. It's pure machinima, but it's impressive nonetheless. Check it out after the jump.

Blizzard has set May 19 as the deadline for any add-on devs to comply with the company's new add-on development policy which prohibits add-on authors from charging for their add-ons and from soliciting for any donations in-game, among other things.

Patch 3.1 for Blizzard's World of Warcraft is definitely coming soon - "promptly," in fact, as blue poster Wryxian said. The Dual spec patch has been the source of much excitement and anticipation among WoW players, although some are left in doubt due to "lack of info" on it. Wryxian, however, responds to that, saying: "The patch is definitely coming... shortly."