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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...

As much as there's a moment of schadenfreude in the people compiling lists specifying that no, World of Warcraft: Classic being classic is not...

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."...

The simplest analogy I can think of for World of Warcraft: Classic is being served a breakfast of toasted plain white bread with a...

So now we have a date at the end of August for World of Warcraft: Classic. That's actually a lot later than I had expected, but...

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...

Let's talk about fan expectations and naked fanservice for a bit. In fact, let's start with the Power Nine from Magic: the Gathering, and...

So the conclusion to the Azshara raid has been mined out, and I'm just going to link it to you here. I don't want...

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...

This week, after some 7000 words on this particular topic, I'm starting off by acknowledging what should be a rather obvious fact: My series...

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...

As part of a WoW Factor column experiment relating to our March 2019 article, we've taken a stab at an alternative version of WoW's plotline.

We've spent three weeks explaining, in no small amount of detail, why people are unhappy with the current state of World of Warcraft. We're going...

Remember earlier this week when I was talking about the difference between leveling as a part of the game vs. leveling as a chore?...

We're continuing on in our tour of why people are upset about the current World of Warcraft expansion, and I think it's important to note...

One of the complicated challenges of writing about World of Warcraft is sorting out the stuff that's happening now from the stuff that's been happening...