Matthew Rossi
What’s your personal gaming soundtrack?
I'm looking at my iPhone right now, as I listen to a playlist that has songs on it from various World of Warcraft soundtracks — for example, this one's a perennial favorite — a bunch of Diablo 3 songs, and even songs from other games.
What do in-game holidays do right, and what do they do wrong?
Maybe it's just because World of Warcraft is a 14-year-old game and Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm are much newer, but it feels like WoW could definitely learn a few things from its younger siblings when it comes to in-game holiday events.
The Queue: And also the R, again
I’m writing the Queue on my wife’s birthday and that headline is one of her favorite jokes so yeah, here it is again. Look, it’s her birthday, she gets to see it.
Know Your Lore: The mysterious absence of Hakkar the Soulflayer
In an expansion that deals heavily with the Loa, one is particularly conspicuous in his absence.
What kind of vehicle combat would be a good fit for WoW?
It's no secret that I love Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and lately, while doing the ship combat in that game, I’ve started thinking about World of Warcraft and how we never really saw all that much vehicle combat outside of a few bosses.
12.7 million dollars raised by Pink Mercy skin is being put to great use by BCRF
It's never a bad thing to hear that 12.7 million dollars is being donated to fight breast cancer.
Only so you would ask: Bundtcake of the Shattered Sun
This character profile has been written for Bundtcake, one of our supporters.
The Risk of Stagnation: Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street on why people quit games
The only time I've unsubbed from World of Warcraft since 2004 was when my wife and I got married and we moved up here to Canada from my place in Seattle.
What kind of reward does endgame content in Battle for Azeroth need?
I see a lot of discussion about what there is to do once you hit the endgame portions of WoW, and often I see the assertion that there's not much.
Know Your Lore: What information has been lost to the thousands of unrecorded years in Azeroth’s history?
One of the things that we don't really talk about enough when we talk about World of Warcraft and its lore is that there are vast swathes of history we know nothing about. Legion actually went and added a ton of lore with the Artifacts, and a result of all that lore being added is that we're much more aware of just how much we aren't aware of -- that sounds paradoxical, but it isn't.
