wow factor

So we all knew that this year's BlizzCon needed to be bigger than last year's BlizzCon. That was, on one level, not a high...

BlizzCon 2018 was a pretty unnecessary disaster for Blizzard. It managed to demolish any hopes people had about Battle for Azeroth rounding the bend and...

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.

So, you all know that there's a Yelp equivalent in World of Warcraft, right? An awful lot of people forget about that, but Yelpcraft is seriously right there. It's been in the game since beta, which is why you can still look at it and see reviews about how zones would be much better if Paladins had talents and some ancient references to some terrible action star of the 1980s. Can't remember which one. Dolph Lundgren, probably.

Last time we were here, we discussed the intensely shoddy ethics of Blizzard's behavior surrounding the banning of Hearthstone professional Ng "Blitzchung" Wai Chang....

Hooo boy, this was not an article I really expected to write this week. So, by now everyone's surely seen the news that Blizzard banned...

The night after my last entry, Ceilidh took me out to the shores of Loch Modan. It wasn't for an occasion or anything; we...

You know, I honestly had expected to do something else for WoW Factor this week, and then I was reminded that the war campaign was...

The past two weeks have been... frustrating. This frustration is not solely down to the fact that my steps inevitably brought me close to the home...

It has now been the better part of a week since my unexpected sojourn into the path, and for most of that week my...

My name is Nieve Vinther. I am 28 years old and was born in the wake of the Second War of the Dark Portal....

Blizzard has really been pushing the whole anniversary thing for World of Warcraft hard and early this year. On the one hand, I get...

Part of me was tempted to write this column chiefly about the rather baffling idea that Blizzard was surprised by the number of people...

First of all, let's just get this out of the way right off the bat: It is possible that this column will contain spoilers...

You know, part of me honestly figured that the speculation around World of Warcraft abandoning the faction split would have died out months ago...

It's hard to find a whole lot to say about World of Warcraft: Classic at this point. Not in a bad sense, mind you;...

So it was just last week when I did a whole column asking whether Blizzard does, in fact, have a plan when it comes...

One of the recurring jokes I use in this column's comment section is the statement that it'd just be sad to think that fans...

It's far too early to say that World of Warcraft: Classic will get more updates beyond the planned phases of vanilla content. It could be...