With the release of the latest content patch, Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft is now free-to-play through level 20. New players can download the WoW Starter Edition free from worldofwarcraft.com. Players will have access to content from The Burning Crusade, including the draenei and blood elf characters. If they wish to continue playing beyond level 20, both the original WoW and The Burning Crusade are available together for $19.99.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced a series of global launch events for the latest expansion to World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. The expansion—which will “devastate” familiar areas—adds new quests and two new playable races: the werewolf-like Worgen and the Goblins (previously an NPC race). The expansion will go on sale at midnight on December 7th in the U.S. in a standard edition and expanded edition with additional bonus items.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. has announced that World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will be released on December 7, 2010. This third expansion for the subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game will be available on DVD-ROM for Macintosh and Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 at a suggested retail price of $39.99 and will also be offered as a digital download from the Blizzard Store. A special Collector’s Edition packed with bonus items will be available exclusively in retail stores for a suggested retail price of $79.99.

Like World of Warfcraft? Like the iPad? Well, perhaps the two will soon meet. As a photo on the internet shows, David Perry, a game developer, was able to find WOW on a Gaikai server streaming over Wifi to the iPad. And it looks cool. While we know this means it obviously isn’t using Flash, it will certainly be interesting to see not only what it is using but whether there will be a way for WOW users to play it on their iPad.

World of Warcraft fans have a lot to be excited about, as Wrath of the Lich King will be released on November 13th. This is the third expansion of the extremely popular MMORPG. It’s good news for Mac gamers, since it’s a game we can actually play on our Macs without using Boot Camp or Parallels.

With all the goodies in store for gamers who purchase Wrath of the Lich King, you would imagine that everyone is excited about the upcoming release, right? Not so.