Blizzard just announced Hearthstone, the online Free to Play WoW CCG Game!
Free to play online collectible card game.
Opt in to beta in your Battle.net account management!
Beta begins this summer, with release this year.
Playable on PC, Mac, and iPad.
The game will be easy to pick up, but have a good amount of depth and complexity.
The board is 3D, with lots of animations to make gameplay more exciting.
There will be over 300 cards with the initial launch.
You can purchase more card packs for roughly $1 per five cards, or slowly earn them through gameplay.
There will be Basic and Expert cards, with Expert cards being broken down into categories like Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary.
You're guaranteed to receive at least one card of rare or better quality per pack.
Each card in the pack also has a chance to upgrade to a 'Golden' version of the same card.
Disenchant cards that you don't want to receive dust, which is used to craft new cards.
There is a deck builder, which can build decks for you, or you can build your own.
The game will be a 1v1 game using Battle.net matchmaking.
Playing will allow you to earn medals every week.
You can also play against AIl at different levels of difficulty.
Any purchases you made during the beta will be credited back to you in the form of new, unopened card packs at launch.
PvE Item Upgrades in Patch 5.3
Voidbinders will return to their places in capital cities and shrines.
Items upgradable by Valor now require 250 Valor to upgrade per 4 item levels, for a total of 500 Valor for 8 item levels per item.
5.2 Justice items now require 750 Justice to upgrade per 8 item levels, for a total of 750 Justice for 8 item levels per item.
PvP Item Upgrades in Patch 5.3
Malevolent Gladiator's Conquest (Season 12) items that have upgrades available are still upgradable at their original costs.
Dreadful Gladiator's Honor (Season 12) items that have upgrades available are still upgradable at their original costs.
No other PvP items are upgradable, and no new PvP items for the foreseeable future will use the upgrade system.

Patch 5.2 - The Thunder King is close to live release, Wednesday March 6, and here is what will be coming with it:
Throne of Thunder - new raid with 12 bosses and a Heroic only boss Ra-Den.
I Am Legendary - the Legendary Quest continues.
New World Bosses - Nalak, The Storm Lord and Oondasta.
The Isle of Thunder - new zone.
New Rare Spawns - troll mobs across 5 zones that will drop mounts and reputation tokens.
Transmogrification - the patch will remove main-hand/off-hand transmogrification restrictions. Allowing to transmogrify weapons with similar animations: two-handed axes to two-handed swords, one-handed maces to one-handed axes etc.
Quest / Rare NPC Sharing - when you encounter another player killing a rare spawn or quest flagged NPC, you can just start to help them kill it. Doing so will increase the maximum health of the NPC by 50% and give you a chance to win loot, separate from the other player's chance. If someone else comes along to help out, this will increase the maximum health by another 50%, and give them a chance to win loot as well.

The seventh BlizzCon is coming to the Anaheim Convention Center Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9, 2013. Those who join us for this epic community gathering will experience two solid days of hands on time with the latest Blizzard games, in depth developer discussion panels, intense eSports action featuring some of the top players in the world, and a variety of other exciting activities and events.
Arena and Rated Battleground Season 12 is scheduled to end on Tuesday, March 5. At that point, we will determine who is eligible for the end of season rewards, a process that should take approximately one week. It's very important for players who feel that they may be eligible for Arena titles and/or the Malevolent Gladiator's Cloud Serpent to refrain from transferring their characters to another realm or faction until after Season 12 ends. The awarding of Season 12 titles and mounts will occur approximately 2 weeks after the season ends.
At the end of the season, Conquest Points will be converted to Honor Points and any honor above 4000 will be converted to gold at a rate of 35 silver per point. The honor cap will remain at 4000.
All Season 12 items will cost Honor Points (equivalent to their previous Conquest Point cost) when the season ends, with the exception of any items with rating requirements attached. These items will no longer be available for purchase.
The next Arena and Rated Battleground season will begin approximately one week after the current season ends. During the break between seasons, all Rated Battleground and Arena matches will be unavailable. Team and Personal Ratings will be reset when Season 13 begins.
Patch 5.2
Ra-den Limited to 30 Attempts Per Lockout - Ra-den is the new Heroic difficulty only boss in the Throne of Thunder raid. Someone found their way to his room on the PTR during testing today and spotted an attempts counter.

We are pleased to announce that Duncan Jones, director of critically acclaimed films Source Code and Moon, has signed on with Legendary Pictures to direct the upcoming live action film based on the Warcraft universe.
Legendary is keeping its script, written by Charles Leavitt, under wraps. The Warner Bros. based production and finance outfit is eyeing a fall 2013 start and a 2015 release. Jones producing partner, Stuart Fenegan, will executive produce while Chris Metzen will co-produce for Blizzard. Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing for Legendary along with Blizzard and Atlas Entertainment's Charles Roven and Alex Gartner. Warcraft is expected to have a budget north of $100 million.
New Rare Spawns
Patch 5.2 brings us some new rare spawn mobs that will drop mounts and reputation tokens.
The Big Bag of Zandalari Supplies contains Sha Crystal, Ethereal Shard, Mysterious Essence and Spirit Dust. The Small Bag of Zandalari Supplies contains gold, ores and motes.
You can find these rare spawns in locations along the coast in each zone. The Zandalari Warbringers will require a tank or healer, or both, depending on your gear. So far, they are the only ones that actually drop the mount. The Zandalari Scouts can easily be killed with two players, or even soloed depending on your gear and class.

It seems that the Mogu Charm of Fate will be replacing the current Elder Charm of Good Fortune in Patch 5.2, with the Elder Charm of Good Fortune being used for the Patch 5.0 raids only. The Mogu Charm of Fate will still be acquired from turning in Lesser Charm of Good Fortune though.
New Legendary Quests - the next few quests in the legendary questline were added in a recent PTR build. Several of them still lack objectives. This time around, after speaking with Wrathion you will have to earn Exalted standing by killing mobs on the Isle of the Thunder King. While you do this, you need to collect 20 legendary drops from the Throne of the Thunder raid, similar to the Sigil of Power and Sigil of Wisdom. After your faction/realm completes enough of the War Effort to unlock the Lighting Forge, you can then proceed with the quest line, at some point collecting Titan Runestone and earning a legendary meta gem.
Isle of the Thunder King - is the new daily quest area in Patch 5.2, as well as where the Throne of Thunder raid is located. You get there from a portal near the Shado-Pan Garrison in Townlong Steppes. The entire island is restricted to ground mounts only. Upon arrival, you are in your faction's base, with daily quests and vendors. In the Horde base, there is a quartermaster there for the new faction, but currently it is just Vasarin Redmorn as a placeholder, as well as Aethas, and some other familiar faces. There is also a portal back to Shado-Pan Garrison.
Isle of Giants - the recent PTR build populated the Isle of Giants with many colors and types of dinosaurs. All of them have several million health and drop a few Giant Dinosaur Bones, which can be turned in for gold, Mote of Harmony, Spirit of Harmony, Spectral Porcupette, or a Reins of the Bone-White Primal Raptor. Each dinosaur will drop 1 to 9 bones, depending on luck and how much health they have.

Patch 5.2 will remove main-hand/off-hand transmogrification restrictions. Allowing to transmogrify weapons with similar animations: two-handed axes to two-handed swords, one-handed maces to one-handed axes etc.
Some restrictions remain:
Daggers cannot be transmogrified into swords or vice versa.
Polearms cannot be transmogrified into other two handed weapons.
Fist Weapons cannot be transmogrified into other one handed weapons.
Items added in the patch won't be able to upgrade!
The patch adds several new spell animations for Monks, Rogues and Warlocks.
Warlock Island - it isn't clear where this island will be used, if at all, during the new Warlock quest line for green fire. The sky is similar to the one used in the Black Temple, where most of the quest line takes place. The second part of the Island is just a copy of the Maw of Neltharion.
Defense of the Alehouse - it appears that Defense of the Alehouse may be the DotA style battleground that is under development.