Two years after release, Newsweek has finally discovered World of Warcraft and written an excellent little three page primer for the hopeless, draconian cubes who have never even considered spending the vast majority of their leisure time prancing around as an effete, imaginary elf.

It's a pretty good article, though nothing really new here. Those who are familiar with World of Warcraft will get a bit of a chuckle as they read again about the slaughter of a guild honoring one of its deceased members, or the infamous "Horde is Evil" debacle. And heck, I didn't know about the march of a thousand naked gnomes on Ironforge to protest for "more power." Is this political power or gay power? It's very hard to say, given the description.

The lead is cute: "In the physical world we vainly scrounge for glory. Bin Laden still taunts us, the bus doors close before we reach them and leave us standing in the rain," Levy notes. Was Bin Ladin in that bus or something? He continues: "But in the fantasy realm of Azeroth, the virtual geography of World of Warcraft, the physical pain comes only from hitting a keyboard too hard." Or from not emptying your bladder in a timely enough fashion. Florian Eckhardt

World of Warcraft: Is It A Game? [MSNBC]