mists of pandaria

This week's Massively Overthinking discussion topic is inspired by Crowfall's J Todd Coleman, who last fall tweeted about the time playable spiders almost became...

Gosh, I love doing these math columns. Not just because I enjoy math, although that's definitely a part of it; there's something so satisfying...

Prepare to see a lot of pairs of Thunderfury in World of Warcraft. Seriously, a lot. You might argue that it's rare enough to see one, since...

Flight has been a part of World of Warcraft as long as the game has existed. No, not just flying mounts, even though you could...

That title up there isn't sarcasm, folks. I want to actually get hyped up about the next World of Warcraft expansion and talk about...

Well, dear readers, I was totally wrong. All of you predicting that this expansion was a waste of time were right and I was...

All right, I guess we're doing this now. Yes, this column isn't just about how Blizzard screws up so badly that a lot of...

Let me write about the day that the Cataclysm arrived. I wasn't going home. I just happened to be in Elwynn Forest, really, visiting an old trainer and introducing him to my boyfriend at the time. We were sharing a glass of wine, he was laughing about the way that an early exercise had me toppling into the water in the freezing cold of early winter. My laughter was of the shamed sort, but still warm; it was a funny story, one told with love rather than loathing. The sky was bright.

This week's Not So Massively column was supposed to be a wishlist of things I want from an announcement of Diablo IV. When I...

Ah, the sinister black market auction house in World of Warcraft. It's not quite like a normal auction house, but instead a place where players...

With WoW Classic finally launched, perfectly capping off the summer with jokes about queueing like it's 2004, we can't help but look to the...

It's a rare MMO player who's never played World of Warcraft, which makes this particular summer an interesting one for the whole genre. Even...

There's a game I like to play - wait, no, that's a lie. There's a game I do play called "Oh, I Made Myself Sad."...

A few months ago, The Outline ran a piece on Red Dead Redemption 2 titled I don't wanna do my video games chores, and...

Unpopular opinions: We all have them. In fact we have so many that it's a straight up meme. This week's Massively Overthinking is one...

Here's the genesis of this particular article: I saw speculation over on Blizzard Watch that we were about a year too early for a World...

To be entirely honest, you might have expected this column a little bit earlier because it's been a hot minute since Ion Hazzikostas once...

The fun thing about bringing up the story of World of Warcraft is that you inevitably have some folks who will immediately crop up and claim...

A great MMO expansion brings so much to the table: fresh excitement for a game, new classes, innovative features, expanded vistas, additional races, and...

There's a narrative that's been making the rounds for a little while now among the World of Warcraft community, buoyed a lot by the fact...