Patch 6.2.2 is scheduled for release this week, allowing those of you who have unlocked Draenor Pathfinder to take to the skies on your most trusted of winged beasts, floating steeds, and flying machines.

Episode 2 features Cox and Crendor teaming up with special guest SmoothMcGroove to enter the Dark Portal and scramble to disrupt the Iron Horde forces in Tanaan Jungle. Watch as these three unlikely heroes are imperiled in a savage past, desperately attempting to stake their claim as Nerdlords of Draenor.

Self-proclaimed videogame nerds Jesse Cox and Wowcrendor have gathered a few of their friends to storm the frontlines of Draenor. You can catch their display of skill, comic agility, and utter madness in new episodes each week leading up to the November 13 launch of Warlords of Draenor.

If you’ve yet to score access to the Warlords of Draenor beta test and take the fight to the Iron Horde, be sure to focus your attention toward Wowhead’s ongoing beta key giveaway. This week’s challenge—lasting until July 21 at 3:30 p.m. PDT—is to complete any two of the following achievements: Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, and Upper Blackrock Spire (Classic).

The Warlords of Draenor beta test is officially underway, and our friends at Wowhead are offering players an early opportunity to face the Iron Horde and help us test the expansion before it’s released later this year.

In this 4-part series, we’ll be giving you a much closer look at how Garrisons are shaping up and how you can expect to interact with them in Warlords of Draenor. For this first installment, we’re going to start off by painting a picture of Garrisons in relatively broad strokes, setting the stage to delve into the functional depth over the coming weeks in parts 2 through 4.

In the blast-off episode of Azeroth Choppers, Paul Jr. presented some initial bike designs to Teams Alliance and Horde. With both teams seemingly confident in Mr. Paul Jr.’s intrepid aesthetic prowess, and attentiveness to the cultural identity of the respective factions, we wanted to get some thoughts from the cohorts of Metzen and Samwise.

We’ve reached out to many influential fansites and players in the community for the biggest round of developer interviews to-date!

Tune into Athene’s World of Warcraft marathon live streams this Saturday and Sunday on Gamingforgood.net, featuring a number of popular Twitch streamers doing what they do best, and including a live race between top-ranked guilds Method and Midwinter through 25-player Heroic Throne of Thunder.

"We Are the World of Warcraft" made its worldwide debut Tuesday night on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon during the show’s annual post-E3 "Video Game Week." This musical nod to the WoW community includes cameos by Felicia Day, Chris Hardwick, and many other of your WoW-playing peers. Enjoy!

Topic: Mists of Pandaria gameplay and design, patch 5.2 and beyond Panelists: Dave Kosak, Ion Hazzikostas, Brian Holinka, Cory Stockton, Greg Street Moderators: Bashiok, Crithto, Daxxarri, Rygarius, Zarhym

Late last year we asked you to take your Mega Bloks World of Warcraft sets and stack, rearrange, redesign, and recombine ‘em into never-before-seen creations. Check out the top entries below!

Whet your appetite with yet another inspirational, entertaining, and downright hilarious collection of Blizzard-themed holiday greeting cards and baked treats.

As we’re about to take a little break for the holidays to spend time with our friends and loved ones, perhaps by the fire with ardent spirits filling our goblets, and frankincense and myrrh nipping at our noses – or really just getting in some much desired game time – we want to wish all of you a very merry journey into the New Year!

We’ve catalogued the spoils of our intractable war with the dust mites inhabiting our mythical Closet; and, at the expense of a few hundred carrier pigeons, we tossed the riches to a number of worthy allies in the community. Many of these treasures are of a most rare quality and cannot be found anymore.

Read the full transcript here.

While our developers have been digging in deep to craft the content you'll be seeing beyond the parting of the mists, those of us on supporting teams have been plotting a course to respectably usher in this new age of Warcraft with our community.

At the Midnight Launch Party in Irvine, California this Monday, a team of five leading members from Blood Legion will be taking part in a duel against Blizzard programmers for the fastest Challenge Mode dungeon time. I recently snagged some members from the guild and asked them to talk about just how scared they are to be facing off against us. Read the interview here.

Best Buy will be hosting a World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Developer Chat tomorrow, Tuesday, September 18 at 4 p.m. PDT. Lead systems designer Greg Street, lead encounter designer Ion Hazzikostas, lead content designer Cory Stockton, and lead quest designer Dave Kosak will be on-hand to field questions from anyone who'd like to join in. The event will be held on the Best Buy chat client, so be sure to register for their forums if you'd like to participate.

To keep the information we shared on /r/WoW in one handy location, we've put together a full transcript for you.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 11 beginning at 5:30 p.m. PDT, we’ll be conducting a live developer “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) on /r/WoW. I’ll be on-hand to host the chat and will have Lead Systems Designer Greg Street, Lead Quest Designer Dave Kosak, Lead Encounter Designer Ion Hazzikostas, and Game Director Tom Chilton available to field your questions.

If you’re not following us on Facebook yet, now is your last chance of getting into the Mists of Pandaria beta test as a result. Our final drawing will be held Monday, August 27, when we’ll be picking the final 2000 winners of the Mists of Pandaria Beta Key Sweepstakes.

It’s not long now until the adventure through the exotic lands of Pandaria begins. To commemorate this unique milestone, we’re going to be sharing exclusive content on our World of Warcraft Facebook page every day for twelve days until Mists of Pandaria launches.

Starting July 25, we'll be randomly selecting 2,000 winners each week to receive a key to our exclusive World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria beta test. In addition, every other winner chosen will receive a second key to share with a friend!

Read the official rules and visit the sweepstakes page to enter for a chance to win epic World of Warcraft and ampm loot between now and April 2.