Ealier in the week, MTV revealed that WOW Gold game lead designer Jeff Kaplan - the man responsible for the design of the game's world, quests and dungeons - was "definitely involved" with the new game.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning launches this week, and its outspoken creative director and frontman Paul Barnett is reaching the end of an exhausting, interminable PR tour. We followed up our review (Barnett: "You're very naughty!") with a chat at the Games Workshop Games Day, held last Sunday at Birmingham's NEC Arena.

A further 250,000 copies of hit MMORPG WOW Gold game will be available in Europe from April 15, according to Blizzard Entertainment.As well as a month's subscription, each box will contain a 10-day Guest Pass. This will allow the purchaser to invite a friend to play WOW Gold game with them on a free trial basis. At the end of the 10 days, the guest can keep playing with the character they've created by buying their own copy of the game.

Speaking at an investor meeting, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has said that he thinks it would take an investment of half a billion to a billion dollars to take on WOW Gold game - and even then, success isn't guaranteed.

More than 7,000 posters on the site's forum claim they have fallen victim to the problem, which is said to occur when Chinese WOW Gold game players attempt to join groups. Apparently there is a common belief among English speaking WOW Gold game players that most non-English speakers are gold farmers and are only playing for commercial gain.

With Blizzard's inaugural "BlizzCon" convention set to take place on Thursday and Friday, numerous sources are quoting details and posting screenshots of the much-hyped WOW Gold game expansion scanned from early runs of magazines - most notably one in Italy, which seems to have ripped the cat so thoroughly out of the bag that it's clawed half the lining out with it. Blizzard's refusing to comment, but we understand all will be revealed later this week.

In a future build your Stoneclaw Totem will "protect" your other totems, virtually increasing their HP by a value. We haven't decided how much it will give your totems, but it should be enough to protect them from being one shotted. Totems are intended to be as fragile as they are, it's what balances out their power. If we gave Totems base increased survivability, we would have to give them increased cooldowns, mana costs etc.

What a bigger news! Thundgot has announced that free migrations are now available to World of Warcraft's new Russian realms. Before you decide to do so however, you will want to be aware of several important details regarding this move.

Did you buy Authenticator before? How is works? Did it well in your account? At the base of the story, there are two things we know are true: that someone was using the Authenticator on their account, and then was subsequently hacked. For that reason, we've stood by the "Authenticator fails" story -- while having an Authenticator on your account is a helpful line of defense, it, like all other computer security measures, isn't a 100% guarantee against getting hacked.

Do you know how visible Achievements and Talents affect anonymity? When you look at the forums you will see this question on the site. Reader Alex was kind enough to send along this forum post he wrote, and he hits on some interesting questions about achievements and how they might affect bullying and posturing on the forums.