If you happen to have registered your World of Warcraft account some time between June 24 to September 25 of this year, we've got good news. Blizzard has just announced that they've started to hold the WoW Voice-Chat Sweepstakes, which will entitle its weekly winners to a Logitech Digital Precision PC Gaming Headset.

The sweepstakes proper kicked in this September 25, and is expected to last until November 3. Also keep in mind that the Voice-Chat Sweepstakes are only open to residents of the U.S. - excluding residents in the states of New York, Florida, Rhode Island, Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories and possessions - who are at least 18 years old.

Guys who'd like to read up on this sweepstake's details may want to visit WoW's official site via the Read link below.

Headplay is probably every couch potato's dream. Imagine a TV. Now imagine being able to take it anywhere and everywhere you go (except perhaps in the shower), and being able to watch movies or play games on it anytime you want. That's the concept for the new "Personal Cinema System" device, Headplay.

Headplay is a head-mounted device; basically, a TV you wear on your head. You can connect it to your gaming consoles, your DVD Player, your iPod, your PC, and maybe your Betamax player if it hasn't choked on dust yet. If it has a video out function, Headplay can most probably display it. You can also plug in a memory stick and Headplay can run the media files - movies, videos, and images - with its own built-in player.

Once you're behind the lenses of Headplay it's pretty easy to just relax and go dead to the world around you. It's nothing but you and the screen, with the stereo sounds blocking off everything else. It's like your own movie screen inside your living room.

To read the complete review of Headplay - what it is, what it does, how it plays on Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, and Nintendo' Wii on it - click on the link for the full article.

Some players have been complaining about not being able to use their USB headsets in the World of Warcraft PTR. This is a very big problem considering a lot of players (this blogger included) use USB headsets to listen to music and to chat during the game.

As it turns out, to be able to use the headsets, you have to make sure to plug in the headset before starting the game. Load the game and enable the headset in the voice/sound options. Restart the game and you should be good to go. This has been confirmed to work by Blizzard poster Datth.

It was also mentioned that in the post that there are two separate sound outputs: one for game audio and one for voice audio. If you wind up hearing some sounds coming from your main speakers while the rest are routed through your headset, you'll have to go into sound options to change that.

So what are you waiting for? Fire up World of Warcraft and try it out. Hopefully, Blizzard will be able to find a way to simplify things eventually.

WoW's turning two soon, and Blizzard's not about to let anybody forget that as they sponsor WoW's 2nd anniversary sweepstakes; and the prizes are looking very good indeed. The Sweepstakes begins October 29, 2006 at 12:01 AM Pacific Time (Hmm, we're two days late...sorry, our bad) and ends on November 26, 2006 at 11:59 PM PT. It will be divided into two specific categories:

• The WoW 2nd Anniversary main sweepstakes: For gamers with a registered WoW account as of October 29, 2006.
• The WoW 2nd Anniversary Legacy Player sweepstakes: for gamers with a  registered WoW account as of November 29, 2005.

Anybody with an account of good standing are automatically eligible for either sweepstakes, and only citizens living in U.S. states (exculding the states of Florida, Rhode Island, Puerto Rico), and players aged 18 or above are eligible.

Prizes at stake:
Winners will be chosen at random, and the following prizes will be given out depending on the week of the draws.

For the WoW 2nd anniversary main sweepstakes:

• 1st week (October 30  to November 5): Two winners will be chosen at random to win a Jinx Gift Certificate worth roughly $100.
• 2nd week (November 6 to  November 12): Two winners will win 1 Razer Copperhead Precision mouse, 1 Razer Mantis Control, Speed Mat and Barracuda HP-1 Headset with an approximate retail value of $250.00.
• 3rd week (November 13 to November 19): One winner will be chosen to win an Apple 80 GB iPod with Video Playback and  one $100.00 Jinx Gift Certificate with an approximate retail value of $500.
• 4th week  (November 20  to November): One winner will be chosen to win a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 7950 graphics card, and one $100.00 Jinx Gift Certificate with an approximate retail value of $1,000.00.

Legacy Player sweepstakes are eligible for the award in mentioned earlier, and are also eligible for a special 5th week luck draw, and one lucky winner receives an XPS Gaming Laptop, a $100.00 JINX Gift Certificate, and a two-year World of Warcraft subscription with an approximate retail value of $2,500.00.

Potential winners will be announced on the official website, worldofwarcraft.com. The player's most-played character name and resident server will be posted, and emails will be sent to the winning character. Only one prize is allowed per entrant. This is just the basic gist of the event - for the nitty-gritty details, we recommend you check out this article's source link. The next  few weeks could just be your lucky day!