The best of WoW.com: January 6-13, 2010
It's been a busy week over at WoW.com and in the WoW world. We've heard from our sources late last week that the internal friends and family alpha will be beginning for the next World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclysm. And while this has lots of people excited, chances are you probably will never get in -- unless you know someone.
There were also lots of other interesting stories this past week, from the WoW movie being pushed up thanks to Spider-Man's demise, to security holes and care packages, to papercrafts that prove none of us have any real artistic talent.
The best of WoW.com for the week is after the break.
News
Cataclysm's internal Friends and Family Alpha
Our reports place this stage of Cataclysm beginning this week.Account administrators encouraged not to restore hacked characters
Instead of restoring characters, they were being told to push optional "care packages" on to users.Lax security in the Billing department leads to exploits
If you were a devious person you could exploit Blizzard's policies and duplicate your items.Mandatory authenticators under serious consideration
Our sources within Blizzard tell us they are giving serious considering to requiring everyone who plays WoW to have a Battle.net authenticator attached to their accounts.Blizzard beefs up account security practices
We're also told that Blizzard has now changed a few things internally.WoW Magazine now shipping
The official Warcraft magazine has headed out the door to the waiting hands of players everywhere.Rumor: Sam Raimi's next project is the Warcraft movie
According to the rumor mill, since Sam Raimi is done with the Spider-Man franchise, his next gig will be the Warcraft movie.
Features
15 Minutes of Fame: World of Warcraft and Philosophy
Editor John Nordlinger sits down with WoW.com and talks about his book World of Warcraft and Philosophy.Lichborne: A death knight primer for tanking five-man dungeons
With the new cross-realm random dungeon finder in place, people can use a little direction in tanking with their death knights.The world of papercrafts
Some amazing artwork done with paper is featured.Dungeon finder loot advice
Our resident drama experts dispense some advice on that ever so precious loot you get while running through random dungeons.
