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Blizzard EVP of product development Frank Pearce has told VG247 that World of Warcraft will return to growth this year, moving beyond the 11.5 million subs it’s been stuck at since 2008.

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The Chinese GAPP (General Adminstration of Press and Publication) has decided to allow World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade to be published in the country.

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Blizzard released Patch 3.1.2 for World of Warcraft this morning.

Other than what you’ve been expecting for a while now in the way of character balances , faction mounts are purchasable through the Argent Tournament Quartermasters for 5 Champion Seals and 500 gold while the Argent Hyppogryph’s price has been reduced to 150 Champion Seals.

The Equipment Manager is the the most talked about change by far, and IncGamers has posted a video tutorial if it here.

The full list of patch notes can be found over on the official site.

You can also get the patch through the usual way or over on FileFront.

NPD has compiled a list of the 20 best-selling PC games at US retailers during March 2009.

Empire: Total War knocked Wrath of the Lich King off its comfy four month-long perch. Don’t worry for Blizzard though: it still dominates the charts.

1. Empire: Total War
2. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
4. Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II
5. World Of Warcraft Battle Chest
6. World Of Warcraft
7. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Exp. Pack
8. Spore
9. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
10. Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst
11. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
12. StarCraft Battle Chest
13. Fallout 3
14. Civilization IV
15. Empire: Total War – Special Forces Edition
16. The Sims 2 Pets Exp. Pack
17. Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning
18. The Sims 2 University Exp. Pack
19. Call Of Duty: World At War
20. Diablo Battle Chest

Courtesy of Shacknews.

This Saturday, April 11, World of Warcraft players may notice some in-game activists over in Northrend due to PETA staging a protest over clubbing baby fur seals in the Howling Fjord zone.

The group’s taken umbrage to bashing fake critters over the head, and the protesters plan on PvP-ing anyone that stands in between them and the virtual cuties.

There’s more after the break, but just so you know, originally PETA tried to get this part of the game banned.

Thanks, Kotaku.

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Mountain Dew’s Game Fuel is back, this time promoting World of Warcraft instead of Halo 3.

“Citrus Cherry” is being called “Horde Red” this time around, and a new berry flavor titled “Alliance Blue” is in the can as well.

More syrupy drinks loaded with caffeine to appeal to MMO players on an all-night grind. Like we really need a something more potent to eat us from the insides. Red Bull already does the job.

Look for these at Walmart and other stores sometime soon.

Thanks, D’toid.

Wrath of the Lich King was the biggest selling PC game in the US last month, NPD figures have shown, with Spore and the WoW: Battle Chest coming in at second and third place respectively.

Full top 20 below. Hit this for all the rest of the new from last night’s NPD release.

1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack
2. Spore
3. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest
4. Left 4 Dead
5. Fallout 3
6. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
7. Call Of Duty: World At War
8. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
9. World Of Warcraft
10. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
11. Grand Theft Auto IV
12. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Expansion Pack
13. Warcraft III Battle Chest
14. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
15. Far Cry 2
16. Diablo Battle Chest
17. Lord of the Rings: Conquest
18. MS Flight Simulator X: Gold
19. Civilization IV
20. Spore Galactic Edition

Blizzard wants a few dedicated and skilled combatants to enter the new World of Warcraft Global Arena Tournament, where your team can both renown and cash prizes.

According to the official WoW site, players will “battle on special Tournament realms purely dedicated to the competitive format of 3v3 Arena matches”.

The characters fighting it out will be newly created level 80s, and the teams that qualify will battle in an invitational ladder to get a chance at the finals.

Registration and all the other details through this link.

While you are here though, read on through the jump a list of patch notes for the surprise patch that Blizzard released for WoW earlier this afternoon. No, it’s not the BIG one, sorry.

Following the usual maintenance today, patch 3.0.9 should be going live on all servers, but if you want to download the patch manually, click here.

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After the jump. This doesn’t really need an introduction, does it? Millions of people are chomping at the bit for this, us included. Video looks great.

Go look.

By Mike Bowden

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IGN has them and they make us wish our PC was über enough to run the game at full pelt.

Still, don’t let our problems spoil your enjoyment of these brand new World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King images.

Take a look.

By Mike Bowden

According to this Joystiq story, the WoW: Wrath of the Lich King beta lottery has now been opened up to US subscribers.

The opt-on when live in Europe yesterday, if you recall. If you don’t recall, hit that link and we’ll do it for you. There’s still no date on when the beta’s going to go live.

It was the event that kept on giving. Not content with making what has to go down as the most exciting live reveal in videogames history in Diablo III, the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris this weekend continued to show tons of information on StarCraft II, WoW: Wrath of the Lich King and people getting their faces painted so they look like murlocs. It had it all. Hit this for all our coverage both live from the first day of the show and afterwards, and see below for everything that happened overnight.

• Live blog of the Diablo III reveal, pictures included (VG247)
• Live blog of the Diablo III European press conference immediately after the reveal (VG247)
• Massive link round-up from day one (VG247)
• Blizzard not worried about losing WOW fans to Diablo III (Eurogamer)
• WoW’s global conquest continues: Russian version imminent (Massisvely)
• World of Warcraft’s J. Allen Brack interviewed (Massively)
• Blizzard Worldwide Invitational: The Blizzard Museum Show Diablo 3 Concept Art (Kotaku)
• Cosplay, Live Music And More: The Blizzard Worldwide Invitational In Pictures (MTV)
• Blizzard’s WWI 2008 costume and dance contest (Joystiq)
• All World of Warcraft classes dissected at WWI 2008 (Joystiq)
• WWI08: Diablo 3 design fundamentals (Joystiq)
• Blizzard Worldwide Invitational: Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain Level Up (Kotaku)
• New StarCraft II shots (Gamespot)

According to WoWInsider, nearly every class in World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is receiving a game-altering change or two.

Whether it’s Rogue area of effect attacks, Fury Warriors dual-wielding two-handers, better totems for Shaman, or a complete do-over for the Hunter’s pet system, Blizzard will not allow their expansion to fall to mundanity.

For full details, hit the link.

By Nathan Grayson

Blizzard’s frozen up its website, presumably in anticipation of the Wrath of the Lich King showing at this weekend’s Worldwide Invitational in Paris. Take a look.

Here you go, Oli. Blizzard’s put out some new WoW: Wrath of the Lich King screens, as you can see on GameInfoWire. There are only six of them, and they’re all of, like, “halls”, but beggars can’t be choosers. Take a look. The upcoming Warcraft update releases towards the end of the year.

On Gaming Today. There are nine big movies there, including an interview with designer J Kaplan & Producer J Allen Brack, loads of vehicle combat, 70+ instances and more.

Wrath of the Lich King is the next World of Warcraft update, due later this year. Looks pretty. See for yourself.

WoWInsider’s posted some leaked screens of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. Looks pretty. We’re not hosting these because Blizzard has probably dispatched war rocket Ajax to bring back someone’s body, so we’re best off out of it. Take a look for yourself. The expansion’s out this year.

Speaking here, Blizzard’s Rob Pardo has said that WoW players want a fair financial system once they’re in the game and that micro-transactions would “betray” them.

“We chose to go with the subscription-based model instead of that approach,” he said. “We’ve taken the approach that we want players to feel like it’s a level playing field once they’re in WoW. Outside resources don’t play into it – no gold buying, etc. We take a hard line stance against it. What you get out of micro-transactions is kind of the same thing and I think our player base would feel betrayed by it. I think that’s something else you have to decide on up-front instead of implementing later.”

Blizzard is currently working towards the release of Wrath of the Lich King, the second major expansion to its 10-million strong MMO.

It’s on the official site, and shows off terrain in the Grizzly Hills region of Northrend. The World of Warcraft expansion’s expected to his before Christmas this year, and will be playable at Blizzard’s Worldwide Invitational in Paris this summer.