Welcome aboard QJ.NET's first-ever World of Warcraft Weekend Warrior, an offshoot of the QuickJump QuickPeek that'll be covering just the latest on Blizzard's MMORPG. This week sees the launching of a couple of the game's festival, along with an interesting new security measure that's going to be introduced. Don't let us keep you though - the rest of the details are available in the full article.

Blizzard recently wrapped this afternoon's dev talk for World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King expansion over at the Worldwide Invitation in Paris. The panel focused on explaining how the Death Knight didn't need to be stuck doing strictly one role, while also disclosing some of the new skills and talents being prepped for the other classes. Details on this are available in the full article.

The hit MMORPG World of Warcraft which has garnered more than ten million subscribers was originally designed around a free-to-play business model complete with advertisements. At least that's what Rob Pardo, the vice president of game design for Blizzard, revealed in a recent talk at the Paris Game Developer Conference. Care to find out more, then head on over to the full article.

As if the opportunity to play Wrath of the Lich King and StarCraft 2 wasn't enough, Blizzard is giving us not one, but two more reasons to go to the 2008 Worldwide Invitiational: Video Games Live and Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain. Details in the full article.

There are people who are really into attending major game-related events. World of Warcraft player Faloxi appears to be one of them. The player expressed interest in attending the next BlizzCon event, and ended up throwing a Horde of questions Blizzard's way. Fortunately, Bornakk responded. Find out what the response was in the full article after the jump.

Blizzard is sending out word that tickets for its upcoming Worldwide Invitational event in Paris have now sold out. We imagine this shouldn't come as big surprise for the fans, given what sort of events await those who decide to pay the cash for their admission fee. More details are available in the full article.

If you're going to this year's Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris, you have to take some time to look around the city. You must. It's just not the same if you go to Paris and all you can say is "We'll always have Blizzard." At any rate, Blizzard was kind enough to help out convention participants by outlining some of the more interesting places to in Paris, with their own Warcraft charm. Details in the full article.

Those who are looking forward to Blizzard's 2008 Worldwide Invitational should mark their calendars now: tickets are going to be available on March 20, a mere three days from now. Full details after the "read more" link below.

Nothing bites more than downtime in Blizzard's World of Warcraft . Yes, this statement applies even to the Public Test Realms. Community Manager Vaneras announced the details on this downtime as well as when the servers are expected to go back online. Head on over to the full article for more details.

Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational is coming to Paris! This year marks the fourth Worldwide Invitational and Blizzard has just announced that tickets will soon be available. Details about the event in the full article.