The days have grown longer and the sunshine brighter; at last, summer is upon us. As you eagerly await the Midsummer Fire Festival, stay cool this season by upgrading your wardrobe with the epic new WoW Summer 2011 Collection designed by J!NX. Due to popular demand, J!NX is now offering all designs in this collection, as well as some current favorites, in the Premium cut.

The initial allotment of tickets for BlizzCon 2011 has now been sold out. If you weren't able to get tickets this time, you'll have another chance on Wednesday, May 25 at 7 p.m. Pacific Time, when a second batch goes on sale.

Just in case May 21 isn't circled on your calendar, here's a quick reminder that BlizzCon 2011 tickets will be going on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. PT -- keep your eye on the ticket sales page tomorrow for the chance to get yours.

We’ve updated our Trading Card Game art gallery to feature ten new pieces. Each image is taken directly from the official World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. Be sure to give a shout-out to your favorite pieces in the comments.

We have some tasty leftovers from our community comic contest to share. This comic was submitted by Heather Campbell. Check out the full gallery here.

The Blizzard Fan Art Section has been updated with five new pieces of fan artwork set within the Warcraft universe. Would you like to share your artistic talents with the community? Submit your fan art today!

Show your allegiance to the Horde or Alliance at the office with World of Warcraft mugs! For a limited time, now through Sunday, you can purchase two Horde or Alliance mugs at Taverncraft and save $10 on your order. Each 18 oz mug is handcrafted from fine-grain stoneware, perfect for everyday use or gift giving (including Father’s Day). Visit www.wowsteins.com for more information or to order your own mug.

Just a reminder: If you're interested in attending this year's BlizzCon in Anaheim, California, the first batch of tickets goes on sale this Saturday, May 21 at 10 a.m. PT through the online Blizzard Store.

The Blizzard Fan Art Section has been updated with five new pieces of fan artwork set within the Warcraft universe. Would you like to share your artistic talents with the community? Submit your fan art today!

The Remote Guild Chat and Remote Auction House free-preview period has come to a close. Access to both of these features is now only available with a subscription to World of Warcraft Remote. Thanks to everyone who participated in the free preview -- we appreciate your feedback on the new Remote Guild Chat feature, and we hope you’ve enjoyed the chance to play the Auction House from the web or your mobile phone. To learn more about either of these features, visit the World of Warcraft Remote page, or go here to subscribe.

We have some tasty leftovers from our community comic contest to share. This comic was submitted by Shannon Fowler (Amyiss). Check out the full gallery here.

We’ve updated our Trading Card Game art gallery to feature ten new pieces. Each image is taken directly from the official World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. Be sure to give a shout-out to your favorite pieces in the comments.

In our ongoing efforts to bring you the most epic website experience ever (with as few explosions and malfunctions as possible), our special task force of goblin Web designers and gnomish engineers has just released a sweeping update to the Web database. Some of the highlights of this update include...

The World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Art Gallery has been updated with four pieces representing the Warcraft universe. Make your way through the gallery to take a glimpse into the process behind bringing Blizzard games to life, and the artistry those games have inspired.

The Blizzard Fan Art Section has been updated with eight new pieces of fan artwork set within the Warcraft universe. Would you like to share your artistic talents with the community? Submit your fan art today!

Much like Arenas, Rated Battlegrounds pit organized teams of players against each other in a fight for supremacy. As a reward for displaying great skill, teamwork, and coordination, Rated Battleground teams can earn the best PvP rewards that World of Warcraft offers. Since the introduction of Rated Battlegrounds, competitors have been restricted to testing their might against teams from opposite factions -- until now.

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been giving World of Warcraft® players a chance to gab with their guildies on their mobile phones during a free preview of Remote Guild Chat, a new feature being added to the subscription-based World of Warcraft Remoteservice. Now we’re giving players a chance to get in the goblin spirit and strike it rich remotely -- for no money down! -- with seven days of free access to the Remote Auction House.

Over one million people have "liked" our Blizzard Facebook page! We'd like to thank you for helping make the community great, so we’re releasing new art by StarCraft II Senior Art Director Samwise Didier as a new desktop wallpaper image featuring images from Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft as well as great moments in Blizzard’s history. You can capture it for yourself on our wallpaper gallery, where you can also find other inspiring Blizzard-themed wallpaper images. If you aren't already keeping up with us on Facebook, be sure to visit the official Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, and Blizzard pages.

Here at Blizzard Entertainment, we embrace our inner geek. We love games, movies, books and comics, computer hardware, tech and science, the list goes on. But most importantly, we love discussing these things. Since we know a lot of you are just like us, and we already have these forums, we thought why not create a cozy location here on our official site where like-minded gamers, movie snobs, bookworms, and technophiles could congregate?

Cryptozoic Entertainment, home of the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, invites you to the North American Continental Championship weekend in Las Vegas, NV, June 16 - 19.

We’ve updated our Trading Card Game art gallery to feature eleven new pieces. Each image is taken directly from the official World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. Be sure to give a shout-out to your favorite pieces in the comments.

For every Cenarion Hatchling purchased between now and July 31, 100% of the $10 USD adoption fee will be donated to the American Red Cross's Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami relief efforts. This support will enable the Red Cross to provide shelter, food, emotional support, and other assistance to victims of this disaster.

The World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Art Gallery has been updated with eight pieces representing the Warcraft universe. Make your way through the gallery to take a glimpse into the process behind bringing Blizzard games to life, and the artistry those games have inspired.

The Blizzard Fan Art Section has been updated with eight new pieces of fan artwork set within the Warcraft universe. Would you like to share your artistic talents with the community? Submit your fan art today!

As many of you know, we recently launched a free preview of the new Remote Guild Chat feature on Android mobile devices (see our previous announcement for more information). What you might not know is that at the same time, we also made a number of updates to the World of Warcraft Remote app -- formerly known as the World of Warcraft Remote Auction House app -- to add a number of features that Android users have been requesting for a while.