When you get started in Northrend, the breadth of content is pretty large. You have two starting zones to choose from with more than 130 quests each for each faction and a whole lot of different reputation factions, tons of new instances, and a whole lot of new professions, gold grinding spots, and even an option to go back north to the classic continents of WoW and start a Death Knight. If you haven’t played yet, trust me when I say that you will be overwhelmed when you first set foot into the new content.

So, what does my tool have to do with all that? Well, what I’m talking about is WotLK Secrets. You may have heard about it already – a lot of people are talking about it because it’s been incredibly helpful to a lot of players. Basically, it’s a complete starters guide to Northrend and all things WotLK with in depth strategies, secrets about the game and everything you need to know about every ounce of new content.

Trust me when I say I’m not overstating anything here – this guide truly does cover every bit of the new expansion with more than 240 pages of detail on what you’re going to see and do. And when I was just getting started, it helped me not only figure out where I was going and what I was doing – it showed me what I needed to go back and redo and what I was skimping on. If you’re just getting started in WotLK, check out WotLK Secrets and if you’re already a ways in, give it a look anyways – it can’t hurt to check out what you could be missing out on.

Check it out now: WotLK Guide

“When Activision Blizzard CEO (ATVI) Bobby Kotick said yesterday his company needed to work on penetrating the Chinese market, he wasn’t kidding. The company’s World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, a blockbuster hit in the West, has been banned from sale in China by Chinese government censors.
China-based JLM Pacific Epoch: The government has rejected two applications by the second expansion for The9’s (Nasdaq:NCTY) licensed MMORPG World of Warcraft, “Wrath of the Lich King,” since China’s Spring Festival (January 25 – February 1), reports Sohu quoting unnamed sources. The applications were rejected due to content that didn’t meet requirements, including a city raid and skeleton characters; the submitted version did not contain WLK’s Death Knight first hero class, said the insider.

WoW game developer Blizzard Entertainment recently deleted a link on the game’s North American site to the site’s simplified Chinese version, said the report.

Where to go from here? Activision is recruiting firms to mange its brand in China, and maybe help handle the Chinese government too.

Navigating the Chinese bureaucracy can be difficult, but we hope Activision figures it out. For all WoW’s success, it seems unlikely the Warcraft revenue machine will grow substantially unless the company can break into virgin markets.”