The Battle.net World Championship event -- the culmination of the over 30 StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS) tournaments, and home to the upcoming World of Warcraft Arena global finals -- will take place November 17 and 18 in Shanghai, China. With so many talented players competing to be crowned 2012’s world champion, we want to see faces from all over the world live, in the crowd, and cheering on their hometown heroes. In the near future we’ll open up tickets sales for the event.

The upcoming novel, Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War, will be on store shelves this Tuesday. August 28th. This novel is the bridge between Cataclysm and the upcoming events in Mists of Pandaria. Read an excerpt from the novel, listen to the first chapter of the Audio Book, and check out the preview interview with Chris Metzen and author Christie Golden on The Instance.

Prepare for Pandaria with epic savings! This week only, you can get the World of Warcraft Battle Chest for $5, Wrath of the Lich King for $5, and Cataclysm for $10 when you buy directly from Blizzard. That’s 75% off the regular prices, making this a great time to set yourself up for the imminent launch of Mists of Pandaria… or to invite a friend to join you in Azeroth.

The 2012 World Championship World of Warcraft Arena North America Invitational will be taking place this week on August 24-26. The three-day event will be broadcast live from the Curse studio in San Francisco and will feature eight of North America’s best World of Warcraft arena teams.

The highly anticipated Mega Bloks World of Warcraft toy line is now available in stores across Canada, the United States, The United Kingdom, and online in Germany.

The European World of Warcraft Invitational will take place this weekend at gamescom 2012 and you can catch all of the action starting at 10 a.m. CET (1 a.m. PDT) Sunday, August 19 at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany.

Our friends at WoWInterface (MMOUI) are celebrating ten years of supporting the MMO addon and UI customization community. WoWInterface was one of Blizzard’s first official fan sites, and today MMOUI has almost a million registered users.

With the release of patch 5.0.4, we’re making all the races of Azeroth playable by anyone, no matter which version or expansion of World of Warcraft they own. This includes the enigmatic pandaren, who will become available for play when Mists of Pandaria is released on Tuesday, September 25.

You've ended Deathwing's destructive rampage and saved the dragonflights from extinction. Now you must unlock the mysteries of the lost continent and discover the dark secrets of Pandaria's past. Explore ancient kingdoms hidden since before the Sundering, plunder vast treasures from the depths of the forgotten vaults, and rise to defend Pandaria from the shadow of a long buried evil - before it's too late.

As a precaution following our recent security update, players on North American servers please take a moment to visit Battle.net account management, where you will be prompted to change your security question as well as update your Mobile Authenticator.

Please click here to read an important security update about your Battle.net account.

With the upcoming release of Mists of Pandaria, the Scroll of Resurrection system will be updated to accommodate the new talent specialization system, monk class, and pandaren race.

On September 25, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria will launch, ushering in a new age of exploration and conflict for the Horde and the Alliance. Soon, the lost continent of Pandaria will emerge from legend, bringing with it a host of exciting new game features -- including some challenging and rewarding new raid content.

Get ready for a new look.  Through this weekend, and for a limited time only, you can change your World of Warcraft character’s race for 25% off the regular price!

Heroes of Azeroth, prepare to embark for an exotic new frontier! World of Warcraft®: Mists of Pandaria™ is launching on September 25, 2012 and you can be ready to play when the servers go live by pre-purchasing the game digitally. Plus, for the first time ever, players will have the option to upgrade a pre-purchase to the all-new Digital Deluxe Edition which comes with all of the in-game items from the retail Collector’s Edition, including a World of Warcraft pet and mount, banner sigil and accent for Diablo® III, and Battle.net® portraits for StarCraft® II.

We’re waiting for you! We understand that sometimes messengers don’t arrive at their destinations in one piece (if at all). These are dark days in Azeroth and the Cataclysm has put a bit of a kink in the machine (whether goblin or gnome.) To make up in any failure on the part of our chosen messengers, we’re putting out this reminder to all eligible guilds.

The world premiere of the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria opening cinematic is coming to gamescom 2012. This latest creation from Blizzard’s cinematics team will be shown in both English and German on giant screens at the Blizzard booth in Halle 6.1 (B21).

New horizons await! Through this weekend and for a limited time only, you can initiate a Character Transfer to move one of your World of Warcraft characters to a new realm for 25% off the regular price.

Behold!  The Recruit-A-Friend program has unleashed an all new reward mount—the swift and sleek Obsidian Nightwing.

We’ve just announced that the Battle.net World Championship event -- the culmination of the over 30 StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS) tournaments, and home to the upcoming World of Warcraft Arena global finals -- will take place November 17 and 18 in Shanghai, China.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Through this weekend and for a limited time only, you can change your World of Warcraft character’s faction from the Horde to the Alliance (or vice versa) for 25% off the regular price.

Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of the World of Warcraft® community around the world who took part in our recent server-blade charity auction, we’ve raised more than $330,000 USD to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®.

Once scheduled server maintenance is completed during the week of July 17, the “Power of the Aspects” spell will grow more powerful, reducing the health and damage dealt of all enemies in the Dragon Soul raid by 30%.

Going to Comic-Con this week? Here is the full line-up of where you can find our licensed products!

Azeroth needs more heroes to rise through the ranks and your guild can help. We’re looking for a few good guilds to volunteer for the new Guild Mentoring Program. Guilds participating in the program will take part in identifying new players within selected realms, offering to invite them into the guild, and teaching them the ways of Azeroth as they level and reach the end game content.