World of Warcraft has been active for over ten years now, and a lot of players have come and gone in that time. As you'd expect, finding a unique character name these days is a bit of a hassle, so ...

One World of Warcraft player got 17 characters to level 80 by the end of the first day of early access for The War Within.While many fans weren’t even able to start leveling past 70, this player ...

World of Warcraft is discontinuing Paid Character Transfers between Battle.net accounts linked to the same name in The War Within pre-patch. Though few fans are likely to need to use this feature ...

Blizzard says just because you don’t log into World of Warcraft prior to patch 6.0.2 going live doesn’t mean your character will automatically lose their name.

All of you have to do to preserve your character names is sign in to World of Warcraft and login to the character in which you wish to save the name for in between now and the date that patch 6.0. ...

The new Follower Dungeons feature in World of Warcraft Patch 10.2.5 brings back some popular characters from the Exile’s Reach starting experience. This new feature lets players team up with the ...

If you're a World of Warcraft player despairing at the lack of possibilities, the answer is simply to wait. With the upcoming patch 6.0.2, Blizzard will reclaim the names of any player who hasn't ...

In order to give players a wider pool of naming options when the World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor expansion launches this fall, Blizzard will free up character names that have been dormant ...

World of Warcraft has changed the alias of the non-playable character (NPC) Gorge the Corpsegrinder, named after the Cannibal Corpse frontman, due to homophobic slurs he's made in a 2007 interview ...

World of Warcraft Classic hype is starting to build ahead of the game’s (re) release on August 26, and Blizzard has now opened up both the character creation system and name reservation system ...

To do this, you need an active subscription or game time on your World of Warcraft account. You can then create up to three characters per World of Warcraft account in advance of the game's launch ...

If you have a character name you've not used in over four years and are determined to keep it, you have just a couple of days to log into World of Warcraft before the patch is applied on June 24th.