The Darkmoon Faire will be hitting San Diego on November 29 to December 2, and aside from the usual PVP matches Blizzard and Upper Deck Entertainment will also hold the first annual World of Warcraft Trading Card Game World Championship. Think you've got what it takes? Hit the full article to check out more details.

Upper Deck Entertainment (UDE) gave out details on the upcoming World of Warcraft Trading Card Game championship and the March of the Legion pre-release tournament. Both events will be held next month and promise to deliver more gaming goodness for fans of the TCG.

The tournament, which runs from November 30 to December 2, will be held in the San Diego Convention Center. Top players from 30 countries are invited to join this tournament, and each one will be receiving a copy of an Extended Art Thunderfury Card just for participating.

The prize pot is one of the largest ever offered for any TCG with over US$ 260,000 in prizes. The winner of this year's WoW TCG world championships will be receiving a check for US$ 100,000 while the rest of the players who reach the top 100 slots will be getting a combined sum of US$ 160,000 in prize money. Here's the list of prizes:

• 2nd: US$ 25,000
• 3rd-4th: US$ 10,000 each
• 5th-8th: US$ 4,000 each
• 9th-16th: US$ 2,000 each
• 17th to 100th: US$ 1,000

UDE also announced details on the pre-release tournament for the World of Warcraft TCG follow up to the Fires of Outland called March of the Legion which will be held on November 17. Players who decide to join the event will get the Thundering Footsteps generic ability card which creates a 10 attack/10 health ally for eight resources.

For those who haven't been keeping up with the expansion previews, this March of the Legion introduces two new sub-factions called the Aldor and the Scryer. It also adds new keywords and even more demonic allies for players to use in their deck construction.

November looks to be an awesome month for World of Warcraft TCG players everywhere with the first World Championship and the release of another expansion. If UDE keeps holding events like these, it's only a matter of time before the World of Warcraft TCG becomes the top card game in the industry.

Details have finally emerged about the new World of Warcraft comic book from the San Diego Comic-Con.

The story will be focused on a human character who can't remember his past who finds out a lot of info on the Horde, making him a threat. A new character named Valeera Sanguinar will play a kind of black horse in the story. She is a blood elf rogue, a night elf druid gladiator who has to come to terms with the world after the destruction of Quel'Thalas.

You may be familiar with Valeera Sanguinar if you bought her action figure: it turns out that the action figures from DC Direct are the cast of the comic book.

The events of the comic books will affect events that will happen in the game and will probably be introduced through expansion packs. There will be 12 issues to the comic books. There was also a bit of a slip about details concerning the WoW movie that will be coming out soon. We'll just have to wait and see about that.

The comic book will be out this November 14 and can be pre-ordered for US$ 23.99. Take a look here to see some concept art while you wait.

  

If you were at Blizzcon 2005, you might recall seeing a mural of a Blood Elf female going up against a Draenei Paladin from Blizzard's World of Warcraft. A lot of people thought it looked really cool, including the people from Sideshow Collectibles. So at the San Diego Comic Convention, they revealed a sculpture based on it.

The company has dubbed their creation The World of Warcraft Diorama #1, and has given word that it will be available and fully painted by 2008. If that's not enough, Sideshow Collectibles has also announced that there will be a special edition which includes a Nether Whelp accessory. The people making the sculpture spoke about the debut of their masterfully crafted statue at the Comic-Con as well:

We are showing it for the first time. It is the Blood Elf versus the Draenei. This is our first World of Warcraft Diorama. Of course, it is unpainted right now. But it's taken us a while, and it's taken us a while to get our first piece out because it is an extremely and intense sculpting process.

You will be able to see from the pictures on the website how detailed everything is right down to the little characters in the armor. We will have a painted sample of this sculpture within the next month. You guys will be able to check it out and pre-order. The sculpture will be available by the second quarter of next year. And we will do more things within the World of Warcraft as well.

After going over the images, this blogger has to agree with Sideshow Collectibles that the amount of detail they put into their product is absolutely amazing. So if you want to get this, you might want to start placing your pre-order now.

   
  

We're sure you've seen a lot of submissions in the World of Warcraft comic and art contests. Well, if you enjoyed those shorts, maybe this bit of news will pique your interest.

Imagine Jim Lee and Chris Metzen in one comic convention at the same time. You guys really don't have to use your imagination much though, as Blizzplanet reports that it is indeed happening at the San Diego Comic Con.

If you don't know either of them, here's a bit of a briefer: Chris Metzen is VP of Creative Development for Blizzard, or to put it simply, he's responsible for World of Warcraft lore. On the other hand, Jim Lee is a highly successful comic book artist and is responsible for the iconic costumes of the X-Men, the creation of WildC.A.T.s, and even the literal resurrection of the Fantastic Four and Iron Man in Heroes Reborn.

The information drove Blizzplanet to dig further into whether DC Comics or Blizzard was planning a World of Warcraft comic book. After rummaging through the interwebs, they found the scans below, which include an interview with Walter Simonson and Ludo Lullabi, writer and artist for the said comic.

Hmm... Was this supposed to be a surprise meant for BlizzCon or atleast the San Diego Comic Con? We'll see that in a bit. We'll keep digging just in case an official announcement has slipped past our internet hamsters. Stay tuned.