The best of WoW.com: December 22-29, 2009

There have been widespread reports of earthquakes happening around Azeroth, seemingly at random. People believe that these earthquake are the beginning of a very large world event that will usher in WoW's third expansion, Cataclysm. After a bit of digging, WoW.com speculates that they might be coming form invisible mobs roaming around the virtual world. Blizzard has since come out and started slyly commenting on the in-game earthquake, neither denying nor supporting the conclusions drawn.

Of course, there's other things going on in the WoW universe as well, and after the cut we'll take a look at the top stories of the week.

News

• Halls of Reflection exploit trivializes Lich King encounter
  An exploit has been uncovered in one of the new instances introduced in patch 3.3.

• Naxxramas Raid Deck and Treasure Packs now available
  New WoW TCG deck combinations are available.

• WoW magazine preview now online
  Warcraft will have a print magazine soon, and you can checkout a preview of it now.

• In-game Red Rider Air Rifle for Christmas 2009
  For the 2009 holiday's Blizzard gave everyone an in-game Red Rider Air Rifle from the movie A Christmas Story.

Features

• Holiday giveaways
  WoW.com is celebrating the holiday by giving away a ton of swag.

• 15 Minutes of Fame: The Pi Guy
  Pie is not just for eating, and people seem to like it that way. However, the cake is still a lie.

• Dungeon Finder bingo
  In order to win, you must group with at least five types of terribad players. The kind that think they're playing Doom when they're really playing WoW.

• The Wrath you never saw
  Lots of stuff never made it into Wrath, and WoW.com's Matthew Rossi takes a look at a few of those things.

• In defense of ignorance
  "Friends, gamers, Earthicans -- lend me your ears," says WoW.com's Allison Robert.

• 15 Minutes of Fame: Retirement home
  Where old and experienced players go to enjoy the game in the way they want to.