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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://wow.curse.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>World of Warcraft : curse</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: curse</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30619.63)</generator><item><title>Design A World of Raids Logo - Win A BlizzCon Ticket!</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2009/06/13/design-a-world-of-raids-logo-win-a-blizzcon-ticket.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:11:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:498688</guid><dc:creator>Kody</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=498688</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2009/06/13/design-a-world-of-raids-logo-win-a-blizzcon-ticket.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Design A World of Raids Logo Contest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;World of Raids needs a new logo; something that truly conveys what the website stands for. While everyone is familiar with the WoR acronym if you visit the site, a passerby may not be, and we want our logo to be a symbol recognizable by everyone. What&amp;#39;s even better is we were able to purchase an extra BlizzCon ticket on May 30th, and we&amp;#39;re giving it away in this contest to the winner!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So this is your chance to not only contribute to the World of Raids community, but also win a BlizzCon ticket for your creation! Read below to find out how to enter. Please note this is &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; a ticket to enter BlizzCon; we&amp;#39;re unfortunately not able to provide air fare or hotel accomodations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:larger;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;How To Enter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Between June 13th, 2009 and June 27th, 2009 you&amp;#39;ll be able to send in your entry for the contest. The logo must be a maximum of 200 pixels in width, and 100 pixels in height, with a transparent background. Please save the file in PSD format to retain its layers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Send your entry to &lt;a href="mailto:worcontests@gmail.com?subject=Design%20A%20World%20of%20Raids%20Logo%20Contest"&gt;worcontests@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; with the follow:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;World of Raids Username&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Primary Email Address&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Attach the entry to the email and send&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:larger;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Prizes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Grand Prize: BlizzCon ticket and your logo design used on the World of Raids website, as well as a Curse.com t-shirt (and another we&amp;#39;re not ready to talk about yet) when we meet you at BlizzCon!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:larger;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Eligibility&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Curse, Inc. employees are not eligible to enter the contest. This contest will be judged on logo quality above all else, and whether it fits within the vision of the World of Raids website. BlizzCon ticket as &amp;quot;prize&amp;quot; is being rewarded as compensation for contributing to the World of Raids website by creating its logo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:larger;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Not Familiar With World of Raids?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No problem! &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldofraids.com/"&gt;Head over to World of Raids&lt;/a&gt; and check the site out to familiarize yourself with its current target audience, layout, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=498688" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/World+of+Warcraft/default.aspx">World of Warcraft</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/World+of+Raids/default.aspx">World of Raids</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/Curse+Network/default.aspx">Curse Network</category></item><item><title>Olympic Pose Contest Winners</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N13117Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:15:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:15732</guid><dc:creator>Kody</dc:creator><slash:comments>129</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=15732</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N13117Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/dl2/23/139/360.jpg/Olympic%20Pose%20Contest%20Banner.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#39;re very excited to announce the 20 winners for the &lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/articles/details/12652/"&gt;Curse Olympic Pose contest&lt;/a&gt; held from August 11th, 2008 to August 25th, 2008.  We had a &lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/?c=14"&gt;staggering number of entries&lt;/a&gt; in the contest -- close to 1,800 -- and it was incredibly difficult whittling those down to only 20.  Suffice to say, there would be many more winners if we had access to more than 20 WWI cards.  Everyone did a great job with their screenshots, and we hope it added a new form of fun to World of Warcraft, if only for a while.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The winners were chosen based on a number of criteria.  Anything from creative use of the game&amp;#39;s content and landscapes, the theme of the screenshot being based on the Olympics, or just a breathtaking capture of the amazing art Blizzard has created while showing off how proud of your character you are.  It was great to see so many creative submissions, and it leaves all of us here at Curse with a feeling of anticipation for the next contest we can cook up.  Needless to say, this won&amp;#39;t be our last contest.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And the winners are (in no particular order; everyone is a winner here)...
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/thejester220/"&gt;thejester220&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/140660/"&gt;Jenalee Posing for Olympics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/ifandonlyif/"&gt;ifandonlyif&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/140546/"&gt;The Hardest Part&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/jsn723/"&gt;JSN723&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/139949/"&gt;Gnomeregan wins the Bronze!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/hosed69/"&gt;Hosed69&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/139612/"&gt;Mara Swim Team&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/zirekyle/"&gt;Zirekyle&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/139406/"&gt;Belly of the Beast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/thegreatpostulio/"&gt;thegreatpostulio&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/142722/"&gt;Iseult poses...in front of the Olympic Rings!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/vetten1952/"&gt;vetten1952&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/142782/"&gt;Olympic Rings Pose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/therapy/"&gt;Therapy&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/142679/"&gt;Conquest in Azshara&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/lordsandro/"&gt;LordSandro&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/142573/"&gt;Glory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/elpazoo/"&gt;Elpazoo&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/141893/"&gt;Meeting with the fans.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/xular/"&gt;Xular&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/140518/"&gt;Olympic Dreams&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/anadjet/"&gt;Anadjet&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/142843/"&gt;Elven Olympiad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/fyffes/"&gt;Fyffes&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/139772/"&gt;ShowMeWhatYouGot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/lumee23/"&gt;Lumee23&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/141773/"&gt;Country Pride&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/multipass/"&gt;Multipass&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/140760/"&gt;No glory without pain and without making a few enemies along the way.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/ninjawerks/"&gt;Ninjawerks&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/143036/"&gt;Sherbet&amp;#39;s Moment of Honor, Glory, and Victory!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/shdwsnake/"&gt;shdwsnake&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/142895/"&gt;Dire Maul /Flex to Victory!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/beady50/"&gt;Beady50&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/141611/"&gt;Tushnar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/bearju1ce/"&gt;bearju1ce&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/142989/"&gt;Olympic sun sets, but the champion rises&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/users/murassa/"&gt;Murassa&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/details/142228/"&gt;Aj Murassa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And of course, thumbnail versions of each of the winning screenshots.  If you&amp;#39;d like to check out all of the more than 1,700 submissions for the contest, head over to the &lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/browse/?c=14&amp;amp;v=mr&amp;amp;t=a&amp;amp;ct=a"&gt;Olympic Pose contest category&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/140660/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/140/660.jpg" alt="Jenalee Posing for Olympics" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/140546/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/140/546.jpg" alt="The Hardest Part" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/139949/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/139/949.jpg" alt="Gnomeregan wins the Bronze!" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/139612/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/139/612.jpg" alt="Mara Swim Team" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/139406/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/139/406.jpg" alt="Belly of the Beast" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/142722/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/142/722.jpg" alt="Iseult poses...in front of the Olympic Rings!" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/142782/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/142/782.jpg" alt="Olympic Rings Pose" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/142679/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/142/679.jpg" alt="Conquest in Azshara" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/142573/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/142/573.jpg" alt="Glory" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/141893/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/141/893.jpg" alt="Meeting with the fans." width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/140518/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/140/518.jpg" alt="Olympic Dreams" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/142843/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/142/843.jpg" alt="Elven Olympiad" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/139772/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/139/772.jpg" alt="ShowMeWhatYouGot" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/141773/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/141/773.jpg" alt="Country Pride" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/140760/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/140/760.jpg" alt="No glory without pain and without making a few enemies along the way." width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/143036/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/143/36.jpg" alt="Sherbet&amp;#39;s Moment of Honor, Glory, and Victory!" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/142895/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/142/895.jpg" alt="Dire Maul /Flex to Victory!" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/141611/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/141/611.jpg" alt="Tushnar" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/142989/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/142/989.jpg" alt="Olympic sun sets, but the champion rises" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="inline wikiimg_thumb"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web1.curse.com/images/details/142228/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/crop/128x90/142/228.jpg" alt="Aj Murassa" width="128px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We want to again thank everyone for participating in the contest, and we hope to have you take part in future contests as well!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE: If you&amp;#39;re listed as a winner, but have not received a confirmation email at this point, please &lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/account/messages/compose/"&gt;send a message to Kody&lt;/a&gt; to let us know and we&amp;#39;ll get the details to you.&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=15732" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/contest/default.aspx">contest</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/olympic/default.aspx">olympic</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/pose/default.aspx">pose</category></item><item><title>Reminder: Olympic Pose Contest</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N13063Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:31:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:15938</guid><dc:creator>Kody</dc:creator><slash:comments>23</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=15938</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N13063Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/dl2/23/139/360.jpg/Olympic%20Pose%20Contest%20Banner.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We wanted to remind everyone that today is the last day of our &lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/articles/details/12652/"&gt;Olympic Pose Contest&lt;/a&gt;.  We&amp;#39;ve had an incredible number of submissions -- over 1,600 screenshots so far -- and wanted to encourage everyone to get theirs in before 11:59PM tonight to qualify.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is your chance to win a Worldwide Invitational Goodie Bag card, so to find out how to enter, &lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/articles/details/12652/"&gt;head over to the contest article&lt;/a&gt; and read more!  We&amp;#39;ll be releasing a list of the winners once they&amp;#39;ve been contacted, so keep an eye out for that!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We want to thank everyone who has submitted screenshots so far; there are some incredible submissions and it&amp;#39;s going to be very difficult to select the 20 winners!  If you want to check out all of the screenshots submitted so far, you can do so in our &lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/browse/?c=14&amp;amp;v=mr&amp;amp;t=a&amp;amp;ct=a"&gt;Olympic Pose Contest category&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=15938" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/wotlk/default.aspx">wotlk</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/contest/default.aspx">contest</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/olympic/default.aspx">olympic</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/pose/default.aspx">pose</category></item><item><title>Curse Olympic Pose Contest -- WWI Card Prizes!</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N12652Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:49:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:16717</guid><dc:creator>Kody</dc:creator><slash:comments>139</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=16717</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N12652Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/dl2/23/139/360.jpg/Olympic%20Pose%20Contest%20Banner.jpg" alt="" /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Have you ever dreamed of competing in the Olympics, but you just couldn&amp;#39;t make the cut?  Well worry not; with our Olympic Pose Contest -- running from Monday, August 11th, 2008 through Monday, August 25th, 2008 -- you can show off your competitive prowess while also entering to win one of 20 Worldwide Invitational Goodie Bag cards!  These are the very cards given out in Paris, France at this year&amp;#39;s Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, where Diablo III was announced!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not only will each of the lucky 20 winners receive entry into the Wrath of the Lich King Beta Test, but they&amp;#39;ll also get their very own mini Tyrael from the Diablo franchise thanks to &lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="r3" href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=39656"&gt;Tyrael&amp;#39;s Hilt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;!  Both of these fantastic prizes come on the coveted WWI &amp;#39;08 card, and entering to win one is easy -- read on for the rules!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: As we&amp;#39;ve receieved a few questions regarding this, we&amp;#39;d like to mention that Wrath of the Lich King areas do not count for this contest.&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="w_how-to-enter"&gt;How To Enter&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; The first thing you&amp;#39;ll want to do is &lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/account/"&gt;register here on Curse.com&lt;/a&gt; if you haven&amp;#39;t, so you&amp;#39;re ready to go through the rest of the submission process.  It&amp;#39;s free, easy, and has a number of advantages beyond this contest.  To learn more about Curse.com and the entire Curse Network, head over to the &lt;a href="http://about.curse.com/network/"&gt;Curse Network page&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Next up you&amp;#39;ll need to be in the competitive spirit.  To do this, login to World of Warcraft and participate in the &lt;a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/events/spiritofcompetition/"&gt;Spirit of Competition event&lt;/a&gt; and obtain a competitor&amp;#39;s tabard.  To do this, simply join a battleground and stay for the entire duration.  Once the battleground has ended and you&amp;#39;ve received your Marks of Honor, you should be eligible for the tabard and have it sent to you via in-game mail.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Now that you have your tabard, you&amp;#39;ll need to show it off.  We want to see just how proud you are, so find the coolest place you can either on Azeroth or Outland (Northrend / Wrath of the Lich King Areas excluded) where you can take a screenshot.  Once you&amp;#39;ve found your perfect location, be sure to disable your UI; we wouldn&amp;#39;t want it messing up the screenshot!  You can do this by pressing Alt + Z (default keybinding to disable the UI).
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; After getting rid of the UI clutter, the only thing left to do is show off.  We want you to do this by emoting with the /flex slash command.  Capture that perfect /flex pose in your screenshot and you&amp;#39;re set!
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/images/submit/"&gt;Upload the Screenshot here on Curse&lt;/a&gt; in the special &lt;strong&gt;Screenshots / Olympic Pose Contest&lt;/strong&gt; category; it&amp;#39;s important to make sure you upload it here as all other categories will not be counted in the contest!
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Once all that is done, it&amp;#39;s time to wait it out and cross your fingers.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="w_rules"&gt;Rules&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; Only one entry per user.  Multiple entries may disqualify all entries from that account and any future contests on Curse.com.
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; If you decide at a later date you&amp;#39;ve found a better location to screenshot, delete your other entry prior to uploading the new entry.  Entries are allowed until Monday, August 25th, 2008.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Any UI elements present in screenshot will automatically disqualify that specific screenshot.  The User Interface must be hidden by using the Alt + Z keybinding.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; The screenshot must clearly display the Competitor&amp;#39;s Tabard handed out by participating in the &lt;a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/events/spiritofcompetition/"&gt;Spirit of Competition event&lt;/a&gt; running in World of Warcraft.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; /flex is the only valid emote for entry into the contest, and must be clearly visible in the screenshot.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Images must be submitted in .jpg format.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; A valid email address must be used to create your Curse.com account.  Winners will be contacted via this email address.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Entries must be submitted on or before 11:59 P.M. PST (Pacific Standard Time) Monday, August 25th, 2008 to qualify.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Curse, Inc. employees and network affiliates are not eligible for entry into the contest.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="w_tips"&gt;Tips&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Capturing that perfect flex can be challenging -- timing is of the essence -- so here are a few quick tips!
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; Before hiding your UI, create a /flex macro and bind this to an easily accessible key.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Once you&amp;#39;ve hidden your UI, do a few test flexes to make sure the scenery behind your character looks good, and when to best time your screenshot.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; When you&amp;#39;re ready to take your screenshot, hit your /flex macro and wait 1-2 seconds; this will allow the animation to reach its peak where you&amp;#39;ll want to capture the screenshot.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Hit your screenshot key (default Print Screen) and you&amp;#39;re done!  Now head to your World of Warcraft\Screenshots\ folder and locate the Olympic Pose screenshot and convert it to .jpg if needed.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Make sure no one is running behind you as you take your screenshot; this is your 15 minutes of fame!
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As mentioned above, this contest will be running from Monday, August 11th, 2008 through Monday, August 25th, 2008 so get your entries in fast!  Good luck to all entrants; we look forward to seeing your best pose!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=16717" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/warcraft/default.aspx">warcraft</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/contest/default.aspx">contest</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/olympic/default.aspx">olympic</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/pose/default.aspx">pose</category></item><item><title>WotLK: Dungeon Guides, Items and Barber Shop</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N12172Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:49:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:17759</guid><dc:creator>Kody</dc:creator><slash:comments>18</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=17759</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N12172Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;With Wrath of the Lich King&amp;#39;s Beta now in full swing, there are quite a few updates over on our network site &lt;a href="http://www.worldofraids.com"&gt;World of Raids&lt;/a&gt; to talk about, as well as a note that &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com"&gt;WOWDB&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/search.aspx?browse=1&amp;amp;filters=142=8634"&gt;more than 2,500 items&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/search.aspx?browse=4&amp;amp;filters=204=8634"&gt;quests&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/latestAdditions.aspx#latest-npcs"&gt;NPCs&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Over on &lt;a href="http://www.worldofraids.com"&gt;World of Raids&lt;/a&gt;, we have a &lt;a href="http://www.worldofraids.com/g"&gt;Guides section&lt;/a&gt; where you can find information on the following Wrath of the Lich King dungeons, including loot in many cases:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.worldofraids.com/g/32-Utgarde_Keep.html#Utgarde_Keep"&gt;Utgarde Keep&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.worldofraids.com/g/33-The_Nexus.html#The_Nexus"&gt;The Nexus&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.worldofraids.com/g/36-Azjol_Nerub.html#Azjol_Nerub"&gt;Azjol-Nerub&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.worldofraids.com/g/37-Drak%5C%27Tharon_Keep.html#Drak\%27Tharon_Keep"&gt;Drak&amp;#39;Tharon Keep&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.worldofraids.com/g/41-Halls_of_Stone.html#Halls_of_Stone"&gt;Halls of Stone&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For lore fans, you&amp;#39;ll even find that Brann Bronzebeard appears in &lt;a href="http://www.worldofraids.com/g/41-Halls_of_Stone.html#Halls_of_Stone"&gt;Halls of Stone&lt;/a&gt;; yep, that&amp;#39;s right -- the famed explorer has finally been located!  And what&amp;#39;s more, you&amp;#39;ll be able to go head-to-head with Anub&amp;#39;Arak -- a pivotal character in Arthas&amp;#39; ascension to power -- in &lt;a href="http://www.worldofraids.com/g/36-Azjol_Nerub.html#Azjol_Nerub"&gt;Azjol-Nerub&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We will continually update these guide pages and add more as new content is introduced to the beta, so be sure to check them often!
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;h2 id="w_barber-shop-preview"&gt;Barber Shop Preview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GameVee.com is a video hosting website, and three days ago the user &amp;#8220;Penn&amp;#8221; uploaded a preview of the Barber Shop being added to World of Warcraft with Wrath of the Lich King.  Check out the embedded video below!
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=17759" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/wow/default.aspx">wow</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/wotlk/default.aspx">wotlk</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/wor/default.aspx">wor</category></item><item><title>WotLK Info -- Part 2</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N12017Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:34:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:18132</guid><dc:creator>Kody</dc:creator><slash:comments>17</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=18132</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N12017Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;WOWDB Updates: WotLK Quests, NPCs and Items&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;WOWDB has been updated with the Death Knight starting experience &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:smaller;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/search.aspx?browse=4&amp;amp;filters=204=8634"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;quests&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/search.aspx?browse=1&amp;amp;filters=142=8634"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;items&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/latestAdditions.aspx#latest-npcs"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;NPCs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;. Be sure to keep checking back, as it will be updated continually with new content not only for Death Knights, but Northrend in general.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Death Knight Info&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Starting Items&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34656" class="r2"&gt;Acherus Knight&amp;#39;s Cover&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34649" class="r2"&gt;Acherus Knight&amp;#39;s Gauntlets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34651" class="r2"&gt;Acherus Knight&amp;#39;s Girdle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34648" class="r2"&gt;Acherus Knight&amp;#39;s Greaves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34652" class="r2"&gt;Acherus Knight&amp;#39;s Hood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34655" class="r2"&gt;Acherus Knight&amp;#39;s Pauldrons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34659" class="r2"&gt;Acherus Knight&amp;#39;s Shroud&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34650" class="r2"&gt;Acherus Knight&amp;#39;s Tunic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34653" class="r2"&gt;Acherus Knight&amp;#39;s Wristguard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34657" class="r2"&gt;Choker of Damnation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38147" class="r2"&gt;Corrupted Band&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34658" class="r2"&gt;Plague Band&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quest Rewards&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38662" class="r3"&gt;Bladed Ebon Amulet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38663" class="r3"&gt;Blood-soaked Saronite Plated Spaulders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38667" class="r3"&gt;Bloodbane&amp;#39;s Gauntlets of Command&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38661" class="r3"&gt;Greathelm of the Scourge Champion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38670" class="r3"&gt;Greaves of the Slaughter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38669" class="r3"&gt;Ornate Saronite Legplates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38666" class="r3"&gt;Plated Saronite Bracers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38665" class="r3"&gt;Saronite War Plate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=39322" class="r3"&gt;Shroud of the North Wind&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=39320" class="r3"&gt;Sky Darkener&amp;#39;s Shroud of Blood&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38664" class="r3"&gt;Sky Darkener&amp;#39;s Shroud of Unholy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=39208" class="r3"&gt;Sigil of the Dark Rider&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=40483" class="r3"&gt;Insignia of the Scourge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38675" class="r3"&gt;Signet of the Dark Brotherhood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38674" class="r3"&gt;Soul Harvester&amp;#39;s Charm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38668" class="r3"&gt;The Plaguebringer&amp;#39;s Girdle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38672" class="r3"&gt;Keleseth&amp;#39;s Signet Ring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38671" class="r3"&gt;Valanar&amp;#39;s Signet Ring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38707" class="r3"&gt;Runed Soulblade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38633" class="r3"&gt;Greataxe of the Ebon Blade&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=38632" class="r3"&gt;Greatsword of the Ebon Blade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Wrath of the Lich King Curse Client&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.curse.com/client/"&gt;Curse Client&lt;/a&gt; is now updated to work with Wrath of the Lich King.&amp;nbsp; This is great news for players in the beta, because it means you can not only contribute content to WOWDB, but you&amp;#39;ll also be able to help AddOn authors test their AddOns to make sure they&amp;#39;re compatible and working with Wrath of the Lich King when it launches.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#39;d like to help out, you can &lt;a href="http://www.curse.com/client/"&gt;download the Curse Client here&lt;/a&gt;; we also have a &lt;a href="http://www.curseforge.com/projects/curse-client-beta/files/71-curse-client-beta-release-1-0-2-1/"&gt;beta version of the new Curse Client available&lt;/a&gt;, and it&amp;#39;s compatible with Wrath of the Lich King as well.&amp;nbsp; Please note that the beta version is something you should only install if you&amp;#39;re interested in helping test the new Curse Client.&amp;nbsp; To find out about the new Curse Client, &lt;a href="http://news.curse.com/details/11878/"&gt;head here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;AddOn Author Beta Key Giveaway&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#39;re currently running a &lt;a href="http://www.curse.com/articles/details/12015/"&gt;giveaway for AddOn authors&lt;/a&gt; who have projects hosted on the &lt;a href="http://about.curse.com/network/"&gt;Curse Network&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; To find out the details of eligibility and how to enter, &lt;a href="http://www.curse.com/articles/details/12015/"&gt;head here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=18132" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/wotlk/default.aspx">wotlk</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/wowdb/default.aspx">wowdb</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/death/default.aspx">death</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/knight/default.aspx">knight</category></item><item><title>UICentral discontinued</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N8541Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:08:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:24825</guid><dc:creator>Zyuu</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=24825</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N8541Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Recently IncGamers posted an &lt;a href="http://wowui.worldofwar.net/?p=news&amp;amp;n=982"&gt;announcement&lt;/a&gt; about their addon updater and why it&amp;#39;s being discontinued. Read the details below.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rushter posted this:&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="blockquote"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A heads-up to UIC users. UICentral, as created by site member Amthea, has been pulled from the site as it has come to light that there was a copyright infringment inside the application code. An unlicensed key was utilised to create a part of the application, and so to act responsibly, and protect the party invovled, we have pulled the file from the website.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are dissapointed that this has occured but at the same time pleased that this has been brought to our attention as we do not condone such practices.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind we are looking to create our own application in-house so that this can not occur in the future. Work will begin immediatly on the new application for mod updating. Thanks to everyone for being so patient while we investigated and checked through everything. We&amp;#39;ll update you soon&amp;nbsp;:)
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;ChaosInc followed up with the following:&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="blockquote"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell, he used a cracked version of a Java app and got caught. In turn, they threatened to take &amp;quot;legal action&amp;quot; against the site unless it was pulled. Needless to say, however, we would&amp;#39;ve pulled it anyways.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean? It means UIC is no longer available IN ANY FORM from this point forward. But as Rush has stated we plan to have another application designed from the ground up without the worry of some piss-ant lawyer breathing down our necks about &amp;quot;distributing applications without checking first that the program used was a legit copy. Ignorance of proper licensing is NO EXCUSE!&amp;quot;. Honestly, how the hell are we supposed to check that crap anyways? Ask &amp;#39;em? Psh....
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So as per their &amp;quot;legal request&amp;quot;, we&amp;#39;d also like to ask anyone who has dl&amp;#39;d UIC in ANY form to please remove it from their comp. Of course, we can&amp;#39;t check this, but apparently they think we can. Next they&amp;#39;ll be asking for everyone IP that&amp;#39;s dl&amp;#39;d it. But no worries, that&amp;#39;s what we call &amp;quot;invasion of privacy&amp;quot;, so everyone who&amp;#39;s gonna start fretting about that can relax.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rush has sent a personal apology on the matter and we have met their requests on the matter to avoid &amp;quot;legal action&amp;quot;. As of this point, we should be left alone and we can get back to work on important things, like deciding who&amp;#39;s buying the next round of Poptarts!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh damn, I said a product name! Please don&amp;#39;t sue us, Kellogg&amp;#39;s!
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
On a whole different note, we&amp;#39;re working on an updated &lt;a href="http://www.curse.com/client/"&gt;Curse Client&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://my.curse.com/zyuu/"&gt;Kody&lt;/a&gt; shared some of the information regarding it:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="blockquote"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hey everyone,
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#39;re currently working on a proper GUI for the Curse Client now. A lot of the functionality you&amp;#39;re requesting (as well as a lot you probably haven&amp;#39;t thought of) will be included in the UI once it&amp;#39;s done. I don&amp;#39;t have a time frame for when we can expect this to be released for you currently, but it is in fact in the works.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=24825" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/world/default.aspx">world</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/warcraft/default.aspx">warcraft</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/client/default.aspx">client</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/uicentral/default.aspx">uicentral</category></item><item><title>Win an Alienware Gaming Laptop!</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N7498Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:34:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:26384</guid><dc:creator>Kody</dc:creator><slash:comments>14</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=26384</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N7498Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;a href="http://www.curse.com/contests/switchblade/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/dl2/23/117/458.jpg/Switchblade.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Curse, BlueOrb -- the creators of &lt;a href="http://www.curse.com/switchblade/"&gt;Switchblade&lt;/a&gt;, a piece of software that allows you to play several hot PC games with an XBOX 360 controller, including World of Warcraft -- and Alienware have teamed up to give Curse users an exciting opportunity.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#39;t some &amp;quot;Win a T-shirt&amp;quot; contest; BlueOrb is giving away a hot new Alienware Area-51 m15x gaming laptop.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="w_demand-only-the-best-graphics"&gt;Demand Only The Best Graphics&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Area-51® m15x contains the world’s most powerful mobile graphics card. Alienware has always set the standard for graphics capabilities and, with an NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800M GTX with 512MB of dedicated graphics memory, the tradition continues. Alienware stands alone as the first and only manufacturer to bring this advanced GPU to market in a 15.4-inch notebook. 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="w_powerful-core-2-extreme-processor"&gt;Powerful Core 2 Extreme Processor&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alienware is the leader in high-performance computers. By utilizing Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme processors, the Area-51 m15x achieves benchmarks unsurpassed by any other notebook in its class. HD video and audio editing, 3D animation and high-end PC gaming suddenly don’t seem as resource intensive as before. Increased processor efficiency means you can work away from your power cable worry-free. 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="w_enter-the-contest-now-sponsored-by-switchblade"&gt;Enter the Contest NOW! -- Sponsored by SwitchBlade&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To enter the contest, &lt;a href="http://www.curse.com/contests/switchblade/"&gt;hit up the contest page&lt;/a&gt;. If you&amp;#39;re curious about Switchblade, head over and &lt;a href="http://www.curse.com/switchblade/"&gt;download it to check it out&lt;/a&gt;; it&amp;#39;s entirely free to download, and will no doubt change the way you play World of Warcraft!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=26384" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/contest/default.aspx">contest</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/alienware/default.aspx">alienware</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/switchblade/default.aspx">switchblade</category></item><item><title>Update: AddOns Homepage Changes</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N7454Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:42:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:26474</guid><dc:creator>Kody</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=26474</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N7454Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;We just pushed live several fixes to our new &lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/downloads/addons/"&gt;AddOns Homepage&lt;/a&gt; which we &lt;a href="http://www.curse.com/articles/details/7414/"&gt;released last night&lt;/a&gt;. Many of the concerns brought up about the page should now be addressed, so please take another look and let us know what you think!
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="w_change-notes"&gt;Change Notes&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &amp;quot;Recently Updated Addons&amp;quot; module renamed to &amp;quot;New &amp;amp; Updated Addons&amp;quot;.
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; Two new links added to &amp;quot;New &amp;amp; Updated Addons&amp;quot; module: &amp;quot;see new&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;see updated&amp;quot;.
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &amp;quot;see new&amp;quot; will take you to a page that displays all of the new Addons on Curse.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &amp;quot;see updated&amp;quot; will take you to a page that displays all of the updated Addons on Curse.
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; Both of these pages are now properly sorted with the most recent update appearing at the top.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Compilations currently display on the &amp;quot;New Addons&amp;quot; page; we&amp;#39;re weighing the benefits versus the detrimental effect this has and will make a decision on them soon.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &amp;quot;New &amp;amp; Updated Addons&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Your Favorite Updates&amp;quot; now display the date of their update, rather than download count.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We will continue to make changes to this page and others based on feedback, as we want to make sure everyone visiting the website has the best experience when downloading their Addons. If you have any feedback, please let us know &lt;a href="http://forums.curse.com/details/25186/"&gt;in this thread&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=26474" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/addon/default.aspx">addon</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/homepage/default.aspx">homepage</category></item><item><title>A New Look for the AddOns Homepage!</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N7414Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:44:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:26550</guid><dc:creator>Kody</dc:creator><slash:comments>12</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=26550</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N7414Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Today we pushed live a major update for our &lt;a href="http://wow.curse.com/downloads/addons/"&gt;main AddOns page&lt;/a&gt;. This is not only a visual improvement, to bring the page in-line with changes made in November to our portal pages, but also to make everything more easily accessible.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition to this, we&amp;#39;ve added several very cool new features to the AddOns page, which we think will be extremely useful not only for new players, but veterans as well. Of course, it&amp;#39;s not always about adding new features -- we&amp;#39;ve also brought back a heavily requested set of categories.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="w_class-categories-are-back-on-curse"&gt;Class Categories Are Back On Curse&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You heard right -- Class Categories have returned to Curse.com. Gone are the days of having to use the website&amp;#39;s search functionality if you want to locate your favorite Rogue AddOns -- you can now simply click the &amp;quot;Rogue&amp;quot; class icon on the AddOn page to be directed to everything Rogue. This goes for all other classes, too.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="w_class-category-pages-other-addons-to-try"&gt;Class Category Pages: Other AddOns To Try&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Want to know what other Druids are using, aside from class-specific AddOns? No problem -- we&amp;#39;ve introduced a new module that will tell you exactly that. Is Omen Threat Meter popular among Mages? What about Auctioneer for Shaman? This module will tell you what the most popular AddOns are for each class.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="w_categories-jump-into-the-spotlight"&gt;Categories Jump Into the Spotlight&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The category section was very lonely all by itself over in the left corner, so we&amp;#39;ve fixed that. You&amp;#39;ll find everything you need in the middle of the page, and we&amp;#39;ve even created special icons for the more popular categories, so not only can you tell what they are from text, but also simply looking at the icon!
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="w_recommended-addons"&gt;Recommended AddOns&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Are you new to World of Warcraft, or modifying your interface? We&amp;#39;re here to help, and this new feature module should do just that. We&amp;#39;ve set up a list of some of the more popular AddOns that we&amp;#39;d recommend a new player take advantage of.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is in effect for class categories as well, so if you want some recommendations for your new Priest, then you can find them easily by jumping over to the Priest category.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="w_movers-shakers"&gt;Movers &amp;amp; Shakers&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While we have &amp;quot;Most Downloaded&amp;quot; on the page, we also wanted to give some attention to those AddOns that are starting to ramp up in popularity, so that you don&amp;#39;t miss out on something extremely cool. With that in mind, we&amp;#39;ve introduced this new module.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Movers &amp;amp; Shakers will compare download counts between various days, and display the 5 most substantial increases in downloads, with the percentage the AddOn has increased, and of course, sorted in a top-5 list.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="w_addon-authors-this-is-for-you-multiple-categories-per-addon"&gt;AddOn Authors: This is for you -- multiple categories per-AddOn&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is something we&amp;#39;ve wanted to do for a few months now, and we felt this improvement to the AddOn page was the best time to introduce it. Now you can assign multiple categories to an AddOn, ensuring your AddOn won&amp;#39;t go unnoticed!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#39;ve got a cool Warrior Action Bar tailored for PvP, you can now assign it the following categories: Warrior, PvP, and of course, Action Bars.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="w_coming-soon-addon-reviews"&gt;Coming soon: AddOn Reviews&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We kicked this off with our &lt;a href="http://www.curse.com/c/newsletter/1-31-2008/7527/review-questhelper/"&gt;review of QuestHelper&lt;/a&gt; -- in our first Curse Word newsletter issue -- and were very happy with the way it turned out. This Review system will be very similar to what you&amp;#39;ve seen on other websites for games, but completely tailored to World of Warcraft AddOns.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#39;re very excited to hear everyone&amp;#39;s feedback on this new-look page, so please don&amp;#39;t be shy -- let us know what you think in &lt;a href="http://forums.curse.com/details/25186/"&gt;this forum thread&lt;/a&gt;!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=26550" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/wow/default.aspx">wow</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/addon/default.aspx">addon</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/homepage/default.aspx">homepage</category></item><item><title>WOWDB.com launch a success</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N6182Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:45:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:28733</guid><dc:creator>net</dc:creator><slash:comments>21</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=28733</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N6182Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Greetings everyone.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am the founder of Curse and I would like to share a few words with you today.&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday, we launched our new World of Warcraft Database, www.wowdb.com. WOWDB represents 8 months of hard work from our development team, and is the product of collaboration among many World of Warcraft players.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Today I have great news. In the past 24-hours, we have already had more than 50,000 visitors. This is encouraging, because we believe that WOWDB will benefit all of us, the World of Warcraft community. As most of you know, all the major players in this market have struggled with innovation recently. We&amp;#39;ve focused on bringing that innovation back to the game database space, by creating some of the features found on WOWDB, and will continue to do so with new community-driven features each week.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since launch, we have received more than 400 emails containing bugs, congratulations, feedback. I want to thank all of you who took the time to report the problems you see, and for offering us great ideas for new features.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are taking care of all of them, one by one.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We designed WOWDB to be as accessible as possible to the World of Warcraft community. We have enhanced standards greatly, and added many new features that can&amp;#39;t be found anywhere else:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com"&gt;Search Assist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=28794"&gt;Interactive Previews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wish Lists&lt;br /&gt;Book marking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/characters.aspx"&gt;Characters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/location.aspx?id=3519"&gt;Wiki-integration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More than 120,000 people are using the Curse Client right now, and contributing all the data you see on WOWDB. I&amp;#39;ll let you guys imagine what type of infrastructure we had to build to be able to process the sheer volume of data we receive every second.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;WOWDB is a great opportunity for everyone in the WoW Community. It will drive innovation that will result in a better user experience, and bring some real competition to what was once a monopoly. I have to say that I have been very impressed by how the community started right away to interact on the site. More than 10,000 of you registered today and nearly 500 comments have been posted since launch.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Your participation to the life of our community is greatly appreciated. &lt;br /&gt;I am myself a longtime MMO gamers, passionated about this industry.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hubert&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28733" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/wowdb/default.aspx">wowdb</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/database/default.aspx">database</category></item><item><title>WOWDB.com -- a Next Generation database</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N6126Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:25:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:28865</guid><dc:creator>Kody</dc:creator><slash:comments>63</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=28865</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N6126Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The Curse.com team is excited to introduce our next major project -- WOWDB.com -- a World of Warcraft database website. We&amp;#39;ve worked over the past several months to create a unique database experience with WOWDB.com, and here&amp;#39;s just a short list of the features included in the launch version, with many more to come in the months ahead.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; 3D Model previews of &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=30316"&gt;items&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/npc.aspx?id=20885"&gt;NPC&amp;#39;s&lt;/a&gt;. You can even preview the item on your character! Simply click on the &amp;quot;Enlarge&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Preview on Character&amp;quot; buttons where applicable to check the model out in 3D.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Bookmark complex filters so you don&amp;#39;t have to enter them again, or clutter up your browser&amp;#39;s bookmarks. &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/search.aspx?browse=1.2.8&amp;amp;filters=1=80;2=155;14=70;15=70;86=1;87=120;20=1;21=70"&gt;Check it out&lt;/a&gt; -- simply click the &amp;quot;Bookmark this Search&amp;quot; button while logged in and you can save it; up to 20 bookmarks in total can exist!
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Tooltip Comparison through the &amp;quot;Pin Item&amp;quot; feature. You can pin one of every slot, and that item will draw next to any tooltips on WOWDB.com -- allowing you to easily compare items. What&amp;#39;s better is that if you&amp;#39;ve imported a character through the Armory, those items will be the default pinned item! &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=30904"&gt;Check&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=33749"&gt;it&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/search.aspx?browse=1.4.2.5"&gt;out&lt;/a&gt; by clicking on the &amp;quot;Pin this Item&amp;quot; button.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/wishlist.aspx?id=1038"&gt;Wish Lists&lt;/a&gt; allow you to add those goal items -- whether it be a new weapon or a new piece of armor -- as well as any creatures you aspire to tame on your Hunter, and even quests you&amp;#39;re looking to complete.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; WOWDB.com Search Assistant -- a robust search helper tool that suggests items as you type in partial names, allowing you to quickly locate something even if you&amp;#39;re not sure what the full name is. Head over to &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/"&gt;check it out&lt;/a&gt;!
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; The WOWDB.com Quest Maps are designed to give you all the information you&amp;#39;ll ever need. NPC locations, where the quest starts, where it ends, and everything else you&amp;#39;ll need to complete that next quest. It&amp;#39;s even tabbed, so if the quest takes place in multiple zones, you won&amp;#39;t miss a step! &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/quest.aspx?id=9376"&gt;Check it out&lt;/a&gt;, and of course don&amp;#39;t miss the &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/quest.aspx?id=504"&gt;tabbed version&lt;/a&gt; of the maps.
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/location.aspx?id=3519"&gt;Interactive Zone Maps&lt;/a&gt; with advanced filtering. Having a hard time locating that Fel Iron in Terokkar? No problem; not only can you &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/location.aspx?id=3519"&gt;filter by minerals&lt;/a&gt;, but you can also &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/location.aspx?id=3519"&gt;get specific&lt;/a&gt; and learn locations of each node type, without others cluttering your view! This of course works for Herbs, Quests and NPC&amp;#39;s as well.
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; You can also edit the maps! Found an NPC or point of interest that doesn&amp;#39;t exist on WOWDB.com yet? Click the &amp;quot;Edit Map&amp;quot; button and submit it to the WOWDB.com team!
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/talent.aspx?id=1"&gt;Enhanced Talent Calculator&lt;/a&gt;: We&amp;#39;ve introduced everything you&amp;#39;ll find elsewhere, and more. There are also &amp;quot;preset&amp;quot; builds available that can be commented on or rated when logged in. Finally, a way to get a discussion going about a talent build &lt;em&gt;on the build page&lt;/em&gt;, rather than remotely!
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/characters.aspx"&gt;Import your Armory Profile&lt;/a&gt; so that you can designate a &amp;quot;Main&amp;quot; character on WOWDB.com. A Main character introduces two unique features to users logged in; firstly you&amp;#39;ll have your Main character&amp;#39;s items shown in the Tooltip Comparison feature, and your character&amp;#39;s race and gender will be used when clicking the &amp;quot;Preview on Character&amp;quot; button on items! If you can&amp;#39;t access the page linked, &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/login.aspx"&gt;login&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com/register.aspx"&gt;register&lt;/a&gt; to get started!
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These are just a few of the features on WOWDB.com; we have a whole lot more planned in the coming months, so be sure to keep checking back for announcements on new updates! If you want to get started, head over and &lt;a href="http://www.wowdb.com"&gt;check out WOWDB.com&lt;/a&gt;!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28865" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/wow/default.aspx">wow</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/warcraft/default.aspx">warcraft</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/wowdb/default.aspx">wowdb</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/database/default.aspx">database</category></item><item><title>The Daily Quest Competition Ending Soon!</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N3309Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:50:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:34119</guid><dc:creator>Indelible</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=34119</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N3309Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;If you are planning to enter the competition currently running on The Daily Quest, you&amp;#39;ve got 7 days to get your entries in!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you want to enter, simply design a standard banner and/or avatar for The Daily Quest to use at the top of the blog and as avatars respectively. You have full artistic rights... do whatever you want but do it before 14th October (Next Sunday) and send your entries &lt;a href="mailto:tdqinfo@googlemail.com%20subject=TDQ%20Banner%20and%20Avatar%20Competition%20Entry"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Remeber to put your Curse username in the mail somewhere so that we know who you are.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You could win one of three great prizes:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;- World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (PC/Mac)&lt;br /&gt;- World of Warcraft TCG Starter Deck&lt;br /&gt;- World of Warcraft 60 day pre-paid game card&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Just to give you a taste of the competition you are up against, here&amp;#39;s one of the first entries we recieved:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/2306/tdqbanner1bw1.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hurry and get those entries in!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Remember! The Daily Quest is just one of many blogs here at Curse. Head over to the blog section and check out some of the other great blogs that are up for offer!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=34119" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/competition/default.aspx">competition</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/thedailyquest/default.aspx">thedailyquest</category></item><item><title>2.2.3 Coming Soon to the PTR</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N3274Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:38:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:34215</guid><dc:creator>Kody</dc:creator><slash:comments>9</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=34215</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N3274Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Yep, you read it right - it&amp;#39;s not a typo. &lt;strong&gt;2.2.3&lt;/strong&gt; is coming soon to the PTR (probably tonight). There are zero details about it currently, so hang back and keep an eye out for what we can expect from this mini-patch.
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong class="cite"&gt;Hortus wrote:&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We will be updating the PTR for 2.2.3 PTR soonish.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I do not have any more information about the PTR at this time, when specific information is available it will be posted here.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please delete your WoWtest folder from within your World of Warcraft Directory and wait until an announcement is made before downloading the new patch.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would advise not attempting to copy characters until an announcement is made unless you want them to end up on the wrong server like 2.2.2
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Spamming this forum is a bad idea. I will be deleting inappropriate posts and removing posting privileges of posters who can not follow the forum rules.
&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2200230248&amp;amp;sid=1"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now that we&amp;#39;re all sad about it not being 2.3, I&amp;#39;ll announce something that should cheer everyone up. Curse now supports BBCode and HTML as options in addition to our special Curse Wiki Markup &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;everywhere&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; on the website where you can post content; articles, forums, guides, blogs, etc. Right now you have to choose one of the options, but this should definitely help remove confusion on how to use the Wiki markup.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The best news of all? Line breaks will occur naturally when using BBCode, just like you&amp;#39;d expect them to; no more nasty looking patch notes that need to be manually formatted!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=34215" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/wow/default.aspx">wow</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/patch223/default.aspx">patch223</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/bbcode/default.aspx">bbcode</category></item><item><title>Curse guild (MyM.WoW) Black Temple video</title><link>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N2976Id.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:15:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">045f8e2a-3b25-43b2-9769-9c60de2974e3:34933</guid><dc:creator>centrum</dc:creator><slash:comments>10</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=34933</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/2008/09/17/N2976Id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Curse Guild, now known as Meet your makers takes you on a special trip through all encounters of the Black Temple.
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    &lt;div style="width:500px;text-align:center;"&gt;        &lt;div id="flvplayer_102" style="position:relative;height:367px;"&gt;            &lt;img src="http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/resize/625x500/36/486.jpg" width="500" height="350" alt="Curse&amp;nbsp;: Black Temple" style="position:relative;" /&gt;            &lt;img src="http://dev.curse-gaming.com/static/v4/images/videoplay.png" style="position:absolute;top:40%;left:45%;" alt="" /&gt;            &lt;img src="http://dev.curse-gaming.com/static/v4/images/videocontrol_bar.png" style="position:absolute;bottom:0;left:0;width:100%;height:19px;" alt="" /&gt;            &lt;img src="http://dev.curse-gaming.com/static/v4/images/videocontrol_play.png" style="position:absolute;bottom:0;left:0;" alt="" /&gt;            &lt;img src="http://dev.curse-gaming.com/static/v4/images/videocontrol_volume.png" style="position:absolute;bottom:0;right:0;" alt="" /&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;a href="http://videos.cursebeta.com/details/656/"&gt;Curse&amp;nbsp;: Black Temple&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;        var FO_102 = { movie:&amp;quot;http://dev.curse-gaming.com/static/flash/flvplayer.swf&amp;quot;, width:&amp;quot;500&amp;quot;,                    height:&amp;quot;350&amp;quot;, majorversion:&amp;quot;7&amp;quot;, build:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;, bgcolor:&amp;quot;#FFFFFF&amp;quot;,                    allowfullscreen:&amp;quot;true&amp;quot;, flashvars:&amp;quot;file=http://videos.cursebeta.com/stream2/premium/656.flv&amp;amp;autostart=true&amp;quot; };    $(&amp;quot;#flvplayer_102&amp;quot;).click(function(event) { UFO.create(FO_102, &amp;quot;flvplayer_102&amp;quot;); $(this).unbind(&amp;#39;click&amp;#39;); });        &lt;div class="cb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://wow.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=34933" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/curse/default.aspx">curse</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/temple/default.aspx">temple</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/videos/default.aspx">videos</category><category domain="http://wow.curse.com/blogs/wow-en-news/archive/tags/black/default.aspx">black</category></item></channel></rss>