Matthew Rossi
How long is a typical World of Warcraft play session for you?
I recently realized that if I play World of Warcraft for more than two hours, I start to fade out, and I stop paying super close attention to what I'm doing.
What Vicarious Visions might be working on now that the developer has merged into Blizzard
In a way, we have a Blizzard North again.
What would you change about the Twisting Corridors?
I'm sorry, but 18 floors of Torghast are just too many floors of Torghast for me.
How to run your own tabletop RPG session
Everyone runs their game differently, and I don't mean to even try and tell you this is the way to be a game master/DM/whatever term you use for the person who runs the game here.
The Queue: One of these things just doesn’t belong
It had to end. It had to end. I have too many screenshots of my various Warriors I wasn’t going to get to use for a Queue header because of that Chaddius. It had to end. I was getting the shakes from not showing off my latest shirtless transmog!
It had to end, and it has, the only way it could.
This is the Queue. Chaddius has left the building.
What’s the best pet in World of Warcraft?
In the past, I’ve called the pet battle system the best thing World of Warcraft ever added, because of its completely optional nature.
Is tanking balance gone in Shadowlands? Factors to consider beyond the leaderboard
It feels like Shadowlands has really lost the thread on the idea of all tanks being roughly equivalent.
Is World of Warcraft the MMO equivalent of binge television?
The takeaway I have from playing World of Warcraft and experiencing its story over the past decade -- from Cataclysm to Mists and then the Warlords/Legion/Battle for Azeroth years, and finally exploring the content of Shadowlands -- is that in many ways WoW feels to me much like a season of a streamed TV series like The Witcher or The Boys, not in terms of the story it is telling, but in how that story is told.
How are you leveling your alts in Shadowlands?
I really expected I would approach Shadowlands leveling in a systematic way, using the Threads of Fate system to pop all of my alts to max level as fast as possible, and I was entirely and completely wrong about this.
There’s a Dungeons and Dragons TV show in the works — and the writer of John Wick is behind it
Let's be honest.



