mists of pandaria

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...

Let's pretend for a moment that the reason Blizzard appears to be dropping the ball with World of Warcraft right now is that it's...

Yeah, so Kalimdor has changed a bit in World of Warcraft. I'm going to be honest and say that I've never actually liked Kalimdor very much...

World of Warcraft "celebrity" player Doubleagent has done it again: leveled to 120 solely on harvesting without ever picking a faction in the eternal WoW...

World of Warcraft's head guru helped to kick off PAX West this weekend with an hour-long keynote address. Ion Hazzikostas entertained the crowd with his...

Part four covers expansion odds and ends plus the conclusion to our series: the problem with Azerite, progression, and why the expansion isn't bad, just weakly executed.

Did they getcha? Did they suck you in again for another go-round? I have a flurry of guildies in World of Warcraft right now thanks...

Here's something a little different: Usually, before I write a World of Warcraft column (or any column), my assumptions and data are pretty firm...