Heather Newman

floorcraft Improve your housing game with advice from some of WoW's best home designers.

Home Improvement Make your house a home with advice from Blizzard artist Jay Huang.

sea queen How one of the Mediterranean's least-known pirates became a strategy-game star.

Interview A 12.0.1 patch will bring more changes after this week's Midnight expansion prepatch made dramatic changes to mods, character classes and the game's UI.

THE HOUSE WINS Exclusive interviews with WoW leads on what new features are coming and when.

on the hunt A new game mode makes the open world a dangerous place, developers warn—and also makes it lucrative to kill critters

remuddled The juiced up old expansion shows the disconnect between developers and players.

World of Modcraft Ion Hazzikostas explains the philosophy behind removing addons, and how the MMO will change in the upcoming Midnight expansion.

ALPHABITS Early signs point a strong follow up to The War Within.

tap tap tap A full-patch test shows that Single-Button Assistant may fundamentally alter how many gamers play WoW.

SOLO MMO "I measure success by being able to do this full time. That's it. That's all I want."

Quest Complete The Dungeon Rampage code was rescued from a child's laptop thanks to a group effort spearheaded by Greek teenager Angelos Mako.

Modified The process is just beginning, and they won't be turned off in the next two patches, he said.

Dead or Alive We checked so you don't have to.

Loot please Bad luck sucks. But there's a solution better than Dinar that would fix it for both raid and dungeon loot.

DUNGEON SKIP You can join a public playtest on Steam this week.

DADDY WOWBUCKS Things pile up in an long-running game, especially the items you hand over for goods.

ISLE RETURN Content update 11.0.7 added the new Siren Isle of short-term fun to entertain players until Plunderstorm 2.0.