• The new World of Warcraft community site is live! Months in the making, this site will soon become the prime gathering spot for the community. We're very excited to finally open the doors and invite you into our new home. You can read more about the transition from our existing website to the new one in our original announcement.
  
  As we're considering this a live preview, we want your feedback about the look and feel of the new digs. Head to the community site, check out the new forum categories, and follow the Website Feedback links to let your voice be heard. Go ahead. Check it out!

• We have some tasty leftovers from our community comic contest to share. This comic was submitted by Hulda. Check out the full gallery here.
  
  

  

• Want to get a mouthful of murlocs? Straight from its appearance at BlizzCon 2010, Taverncraft is now announcing the immediately availability of RAWGRLRLRLRRLGLRL!!!, the latest addition to their renowned World of Warcraft Epic Collection Stein series. [more]Available at http://www.taverncraft.com, this impressive stein showcases Azeroth’s most famous denizens of the deep. Illustrated by premier fantasy artist Matt Cavotto, the fine-grain stoneware stein spotlights numerous murlocs throughout its panoramic, bas-relief image, including Winterfin Oracle, Bluefin Murloc, and Murloc Tidehunter, and is topped with an exclusive murloc-themed solid pewter lid.

• The Blizzard Art gallery has been updated with 5 pieces representing the Warcraft universe. These pieces offer an inside look at the creative process behind building this virtual world.
  
  

  
  

• We're featuring 4 new pieces of artwork in our Blizzard Fan Art Section today. Have a look at the many different interpretations of the Warcraft universe forged by some very talented artists.
  
  Do you have a unique artistic approach to characters or environments in the Diablo, StarCraft, or Warcraft universes? Submit your fan art now!
  
  

  
  

• Over the years, Blizzard has provided players with various tools and resources, such as the Battle.net Authenticator and Account Security Awareness pages, to help you keep your account information safe, secure, and in the right hands. As part of our ongoing commitment to account security, we're happy to announce the release of a new account security feature, the Battle.net Dial-in Authenticator.

• If you attended BlizzCon 2010 and brought a camera along, we want to see your pictures. Send your best photos of the event, particularly from Friday's contests, to blizzconweb@blizzard.com.

• We have just updated our World of Warcraft Wallpapers section with two new calendar wallpapers for August, 2010.
  
  

• We have some tasty leftovers from our community comic contest to share. This comic was submitted by Baltarouzz. Check out the full gallery here.
  
  

  

• Issue 3 of the Official World of Warcraft magazine is on its way to mailboxes everywhere, featuring interviews with Blizzard Entertainment's creative guru Chris Metzen and the item design team. Don't have your issue yet? Go to the Official World of Warcraft Magazine website for a sneak preview of the latest issue and to learn how to subscribe.

• The comic contest is back! If you’ve ever read the Sunday morning funny pages, then you already know what to do. Make a comic that will split our sides (a little artistic skill doesn't hurt either...) and you may be among one of three winners chosen every other month. We'll display the winners proudly on our websites and send their creators a good-as-cash gift card. We’re opening the contest up to all Blizzard Entertainment franchises, so you can now create a fun, silly, or interesting comic based on the themes and characters from the Warcraft, Diablo, or StarCraft universes to enter. For details, or to submit your entry, hit up the official Blizzard Comic Contest page.

• World of Warcraft: Cataclysm looms on the horizon, and with it come unimaginable calamities that will shatter the very surface of Azeroth. To prove that it's not all doom and gloom, we're proud to announce a couple of contests that are sure to brighten things up. If video is your weapon of choice or you're a talented machinima artist, then our Cataclysm YouTube Video Contest might be your path to glory. If those newfangled moving pictures aren't your thing, you can still dazzle, inform, and amuse by entering a memorable image in the Cataclysm Print Ad Contest. Good luck!

• The Cataclysm looms near, and you can be ready to play the minute the servers go live by pre-purchasing the expansion digitally on Battle.net now. Simply complete the digital pre-sale process on Battle.net, and your account will be flagged for automatic access to Cataclysm when it launches at 12:01 a.m. PST on December 7.
  
  Once you’ve completed the digital upgrade, be sure to log in to World of Warcraft at least once prior to December 7 to begin the background-downloading process and prepare for Deathwing’s return. Until then, keep watching the skies....