As someone who has played World of Warcraft on and off for what now qualifies as a significant portion of my life over the last 21 years, I’ve come to learn that there are two things that I deeply appreciate about Blizzard’s long-running fantasy MMO. The first is the way Warcraft has sat with, and handled, the evolution of its world and characters over those two decades as an ongoing entity.

Well, that’s not really the first. Because the actual first is that I just really love Warcraft ‘s elves. I do appreciate World of Warcraft ‘s approach to the passage of time, but really, I’m here for the elves.

And at Gamescom this week, Blizzard provided elves by the bucketload with the unveiling of World of Warcraft ‘s next expansion, Midnight . The middle chapter of what th

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