When Camille Evitel felt her waters break in the middle of a game of World of Warcraft, the grip it had over her life suddenly became abundantly clear.
“My husband said, ‘you know, we should really get to a hospital’,” she explained. “But then I told him, ‘you know what? Let’s just hold out until we get this monster down and complete this game, and then we can sort it out’. And that’s what we did.“
Twenty years ago on Saturday, World of Warcraft (WoW) was launched. An online video game set in a vast fantasy world called Azeroth, players create characters, take on quests to find treasure, defeat monsters and become heroes.
Since its release 20 years ago World of Warcraft has become a key fixture in the gaming world
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It is also a shared experience, where players can team up with