Latest articles by Heather Newman
5 top tips from World of Warcraft housing creators for making amazing masterworks
floorcraft Improve your housing game with advice from some of WoW's best home designers.
Blizzard doing 'a thorough scrub' of illegitimate World of Warcraft Mythic-Plus dungeon rankings, with more changes to come
news Paid boosting was particularly controversial in this instance, because it pushed legitimate records out of the top-1% reward category.
Some of WoW's hardest dungeons and raids have gotten just a bit easier—that's on purpose, developers say
news "People are a little bit more willing now to say, 'Well I'd like to try out tanking. I'd like to try out healing.'"
10 tips from a World of Warcraft art lead for getting started creating amazing houses in WoW
Home Improvement Make your house a home with advice from Blizzard artist Jay Huang.
All GTA 5 cheat codes and phone numbers for invincibility, weapons, and vehicles
Crime pays Los Santos gets a little more chaotic with these cheats and phone numbers.
Moroccan pirate queen Sayyida al-Hurra was largely omitted from history books, but now she's in Civilization 7 thanks to a professor's curiosity and years of research
sea queen How one of the Mediterranean's least-known pirates became a strategy-game star.
You can expect some of WoW's big timers to bite it during the Worldsoul Saga trilogy: 'It’ll be a lot of death, I’m afraid'
News I see… only darkness… before me.
Redesigns for both Orgrimmar and Stormwind are on the table if World of Warcraft: Midnight's Silvermoon overhaul is well received
News "If it’s positive, I think it opens up a bunch more storytelling opportunities."
Blizzard's not been 'backtracking' on its combat addon plans for World of Warcraft, says game director Ion Hazzikostas: 'This was always the intent, to swing the pendulum to the other end and then creep it back'
News Knock it down, then build it back up.
Blizzard let its UI mods 'go farther than we should have', says game director Ion Hazzikostas, but 'the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second-best time is today'
News Late or not, that band-aid's gonna be ripped off.
World of Warcraft's add-on changes aren't over: 'There will doubtless be some loopholes players find'
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.
Blizzard has big plans for World of Warcraft's player housing, and you won't have to wait long to see what's next: 'This is a system that we're not just setting up to last for the launch of Midnight, but for years to come'
THE HOUSE WINS Exclusive interviews with WoW leads on what new features are coming and when.
World of Warcraft: Midnight's new solo-friendly Prey mode will have bosses attacking you out of nowhere: 'There's going to be some really mean stuff that we're going to do to you'
on the hunt A new game mode makes the open world a dangerous place, developers warn—and also makes it lucrative to kill critters
World of Warcraft: Legion Remix was supposed to be full of lawless fun, but it turned out to be awfully grindy
remuddled The juiced up old expansion shows the disconnect between developers and players.
World of Warcraft director admits it's too hard without combat mods and explains how bosses will change in Midnight: 'We're not looking to turn all our raid encounters into giant puzzles for people to solve'
World of Modcraft Ion Hazzikostas explains the philosophy behind removing addons, and how the MMO will change in the upcoming Midnight expansion.
World of Warcraft: Midnight has some of Blizzard's most controversial changes yet, but playing the alpha still has me hopeful it'll figure them out in the next few months
ALPHABITS Early signs point a strong follow up to The War Within.
For better or worse, a new single-button way to play World of Warcraft is changing the game: 'We've received overwhelmingly positive feedback'
tap tap tap A full-patch test shows that Single-Button Assistant may fundamentally alter how many gamers play WoW.
Erenshor is a simulated MMO built for singleplayer by a single person
SOLO MMO "I measure success by being able to do this full time. That's it. That's all I want."
He was devastated when his favorite Facebook game shut down, but at 10 years old, what could he do? 8 years later, he's got the rights, the original code, and is about to relaunch Dungeon Rampage on Steam
Quest Complete The Dungeon Rampage code was rescued from a child's laptop thanks to a group effort spearheaded by Greek teenager Angelos Mako.
World of Warcraft game director details which combat add-ons are safe and which will be eliminated in the coming purge
Modified The process is just beginning, and they won't be turned off in the next two patches, he said.
World of Warcraft game director on the woeful patch 11.1.5: 'It's not the experience our players are expecting or deserve'
news Bugs and time-gated content enraged players.
How World of Warcraft's add-on changes will affect the most popular mods
Dead or Alive We checked so you don't have to.
Blizzard's making a huge World of Warcraft change: combat add-ons will be eliminated, with new features coming to replace some of their functions
news All the details on Blizzard's planned changes to World of Warcraft add-ons, which will end support for the MMO's most popular mods.
