Azeroth Interrupted: Using WoW to teach children values
Each week, Robin Torres contributes Azeroth Interrupted, a column about balancing real life with WoW.
Kids on the internet is (or at least should be) a pretty scary thing for parents. There are predators, perverts or people with questionable ideas that you just don’t want to expose your children to. I find it odd, therefore, that [...]
Silvermoon University holds class in Azeroth
Silvermoon Unversity is an interesting little guild– they go above and beyond the call of RPing over on Twisting Nether. The guild is run as a real university inside Azeroth. Instead of guild officers, they have “Instructors,” new guildies are called Freshmen, and so on. “Higher education meets the Horde” is their motto. That’s [...]
The History of the World (of Warcraft)
It appears that it is time for me to branch out from my usual silly antics here on WoW Insider, and take a moment to flex my writing skills instead of my artistic ones. Today I would like to speak to you about some of the long history of WoW, but not in the “Know [...]
Ten Ways Players Leave Guilds
I’ve stated before that when I play MMOs, I typically will end up joining a guild. Normally I will do this through the normal course of the game, researching guilds and perhaps getting referred by people I happen to group with. So I join a guild. Now let me say that my guild experiences thus [...]
Play World of Warcraft With Hello Kitty
Hello Kitty can be found on everything from underwear to toasters to bicycles, and now, it’s on World of Warcraft, too. Someone, it seems, saw fit to create a custom WoW interface bedecked with the Sanrio mascot. Hello Kitty Hell, an HK-hating blog, describes it thusly:
For those unfamiliar, World of Warcraft (WoW) is an online [...]
A new round of funny guild names
Adam on the WoW LJ pulled some funny guild names from the new Wowhead forums, and while I was pretty sure that funny guild names had become the oldest joke in the WoW humor book (c’mon, who hasn’t heard of a guild called “Riders of Lohan” or “Gnomeland Security” by now?), there are actually some [...]
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