Matthew Rossi

Matthew Rossi @MatthewWRossi — Matthew Rossi is a synapsid, perhaps descended from Cynognathus. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and grew up there before leaving to see the world and be mistaken for a sasquatch and/or minor singing celebrity in various locales. He currently lives and writes in Edmonton alongside his amazing and beautiful wife and their cats. He’s written three collections of speculative fiction, Things That Never Were, Bottled Demon and At Last, Atlantis. He loves playing warriors in World of Warcraft, barbarians in Diablo III, and he’s beginning to notice a pattern here.

Diablo

Diablo 3 may be the reason we don’t have a Diablo 4 yet

by Matthew Rossi on March 28, 2019 at 2:00pm @MatthewWRossi

On the one hand, I enjoy a good sale as much as the next person and the fact that you can currently buy Diablo 3 and the Reaper of Souls expansion bundled together for significantly less than normal is pretty great -- you can buy either Diablo 3 itself or Reaper of Souls for half off, and the combined bundle for 31% less than usual.

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Discussion

What’s the goofiest thing you’ll spend gold to do?

by Matthew Rossi on March 27, 2019 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

Look, I know it's silly to want to be a twelve foot tall Zandalari Troll standing in the middle of Ironforge.

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Editorial

Online gaming has always been a real place

by Matthew Rossi on March 26, 2019 at 10:00am @MatthewWRossi

Update: This was originally published just for our supporters, but now it's available for everyone.

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Editorial

Why the Alliance needs to do something wrong

by Matthew Rossi on March 25, 2019 at 6:00pm @MatthewWRossi

I have a lot of opinions about the limitations of the current view of the Alliance, and a lot of them are drawn from Star Trek.

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Diablo

Know Your Diablo Lore: What is actually happening in Diablo 3?

by Matthew Rossi on March 22, 2019 at 6:00pm @MatthewWRossi

I've had people ask me for a round up of the plot of Diablo 3 for a while.

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Editorial

Is a level squish inevitable?

by Matthew Rossi on March 22, 2019 at 5:00pm @MatthewWRossi

If you were watching the Live Developer Q&A that Ion "Watcher" Hazzikostas and Josh "Lore" Allen did this week, you may have noticed that around the 34 minute mark on this recording they discussed leveling in WoW.

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WoW

If you’ve been chasing T’paartos’ look, rejoice, for you will finally be able to hide your chest armor

by Matthew Rossi on March 22, 2019 at 2:00pm @MatthewWRossi

During the Q&A on March 21, Ion Hazzikostas answered a question about transmog that, had I not been lying on my back in intense pain and thus not watching the Q&A at that time, would have immediately put a big dumb smile on my face.

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The Queue

The Queue: I love my Kul Tiran Warrior

by Matthew Rossi on March 22, 2019 at 12:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Look, I got my every two months eye injections the day I’m writing this Queue and I am utterly wiped out, just not feeling great at all. So this week’s Queue is me dressing up a new Kul Tiran Warrior in this, my favorite Classic WoW clownsuit. The armor I literally used for most of BWL and AQ40 and Naxx. Yes, it looks ridiculous. That’s the magic of it.

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Discussion

If you were given complete creative control of a Blizzard property, which would it be, and what would you do?

by Matthew Rossi on March 21, 2019 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

Seriously, if I had a genie ready to give me three wishes, the first two would be for perfect health and immortality for myself and my wife, and likely vast wealth or superpowers (depending on if the genie would grant superpowers -- I have a whole wish thing mapped out just in case).

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