Want a purely cosmetic pet for your World of Warcraft character? Well, if you have ten bucks lying around you can buy one. And this isn't from shady gold-farming operation, mind you. This is an official Blizzard-approved transaction.

World of Warcraft's operation finally resumed in China only recently, but it looks like Chinese gamers' celebration will be short-lived. Reuters reports that a Chinese regulatory authority has filed a cease and desist order upon WoW's Chinese licensing partner, NetEase, from continuing operations of the said game in the country.

Want to change the race of your World of Warcraft characters? No problem, now you can do exactly that for US$ 25. Blizzard launched today the new Race Change service, which, for all intents and purposes, does exactly what its name says it does.

Blizzard relaunched a heavily upgraded Battle.Net earlier this year with the end goal of integrating all of their games under one banner service. There's also another update in the pipeline, and to prepare, Blizzard is asking all World of Warcraft players to upgrade to a Battle.Net account by November.

More details are coming out for the freshly-announced Warcraft movie set to come out in the year 2011. Director Sam Raimi confirmed to MTV News that the screenplay is, in fact, in the works right now.

One of the guilds in World of Warcraft, Ex Cinis Cineris of Fastriders, has changed their tabard to pink. No, it's not out of a whim or because they thought they felt the need to bring out the blush in their cheeks, it's actually in honor of the Breast Cancer Awareness Month happening all throughout October.

While concrete details about Sam Raimi's Warcraft movie remain undisclosed, a possible hint has shown up on the ever-popular Internet Movie Database.

After the good news that the China server for World of Warcraft is now back up and running after two months of hiatus, it's time to get all patched up. Patch 3.2.2 has just been released by Blizzard, and we're giving you a sneak peek at what's in it.

After more than two months of costly downtime, Blizzard and Chinese operator NetEase have finally opened up the doors once again to World of Warcraft players across China.

There will be another expansion pack for World of Warcraft, and it will be Catclysm-ic! This was the announcement made by Blizzard last Friday at the BlizzCon, promising to shake up WoW as you know it. Details and debut video after the jump.