When I first started playing games, the major in-game maps as we know them now just didn’t exist. If there were maps at all, they were likely to be physical things that came in a game box, vaguely describing the game world in paper or (for fancier games) cloth. So how did I find my way around? I made my own maps with graph paper and as-neat-as-I-could-manage handwriting. How old-school is that?

I still have, tucked away in my desk, whole notebooks of game maps, particularly MUDs for which the graph paper method worked particularly well. Perhaps I’m spoiled these days, though, because not only do I expect maps in the games themselves, I expect good maps… and  WoW‘s just don’t meet my expectations. But whether you care about maps or not, read on for answers to your questions.

Submitter Bruin saw this trio of formal dancing murlocs while adventuring in Draenor.

The Legion alpha is in full swing which means we're getting tons of data about this expansion to be.

Welcome to the 47th episode of Blizzard Watch's podcast!

The Legion alpha is starting to pick up steam as it moves along, with more information is trickling out as testing progresses.

The World of Warcraft theorycrafting community is incredible.

In the lull between expansions, raiding guilds want to keep as many active players as they can.

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

A mysterious anonymous whistleblower writes, "Spectacular Death on Llane (US-A) celebrates its eighth anniversary on December 15.

I've returned from a vacation in sunny Florida to find that I have, once again, been falling behind on my World of Warcraft goals.