Rebekah Valentine

Rebekah Valentine is a multi-award-winning senior writer for Kotaku. She's been a journalist covering the games industry for nearly a decade, with past work at outlets including IGN, GamesIndustry.biz, PC Gamer, Wirecutter, and USGamer. She's based in Kansas City with a partner, two cats, and a big garden, and spends her gaming hours on Nintendo, WoW, and generally anything commonly dubbed a "sicko game".

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Culture

It Sounds Like BlizzCon Won’t Go Back To Being An Annual Event

We don't know when we'll know when the next one is

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 18, 2026
Games

WoW: Forever Players Are Gushing Over Lighting Updates To A 21-Year-Old Game

Sunrise, sunset

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 18, 2026
Games

Someone Gifted The Pope A Giant Hunk Of Materia

I regret to inform you that the Materia is cursed

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 18, 2026
Games

We Asked Blizzard Why Diablo 5 Is Confirmed For PC But StarCraft Is Not

Why is Blizzard being so weird about this?

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 17, 2026
Games

Diablo Himself Didn’t Get Dedicated Diablo 4 DLC Because ‘Diablo’s Very Demanding,’ Devs Say

But he's the star of Diablo 5 now instead

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 16, 2026

Games

Blizzard’s Got A Serious Scalping Problem On Its Hands

The World of Warcraft: Forever Collector's Edition is being scalped all to hell, too

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 16, 2026
Games

Diablo 5 Devs Address The Release Date Skepticism: ‘The Team All Agreed That It Was A Great Time To Tell The World’

'It's important that we are building the game that the community wants'

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 15, 2026
CultureFeatureInterview

Games Like Warcraft 3 Are ‘The Best Storytelling Medium Warcraft Has Had,’ Says Director

'An MMO can be challenging in terms of building up and conveying a connection to characters'

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 15, 2026
Games

Warcraft 3 Leads On Why Forsaken Kingdom Launched With Graphics Mismatch, No Dubs: ‘BlizzCons Don’t Come Along Very Often’

Also, the Forsaken Kingdom campaign may get some dubbed languages added

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 15, 2026
Games

Warcraft 3: Reforged Devs Explain Why New Campaign Is Always Online

'The LAN party has gone global'

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 15, 2026

CultureFeatureInterview

8 New Things We Just Learned About World Of Warcraft: Forever From Its Lead Designers

No shaman tanks at launch, PvP progression, add-on restrictions, and more

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 14, 2026
Games

World Of Warcraft Pizza Is A Perfect Reminder Of What Makes BlizzCon Special

Put down a feast

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 14, 2026
CultureNews

Warcraft 3 Reforged’s Big Update Adds Two New Secret Levels That No One’s Found Yet

Cows? Lore secrets? Something else?

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 13, 2026
Games

Hands-On With World Of Warcraft: Forever, An Alternate Universe Worth Exploring

Season after season of discovery

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 13, 2026
Games

Whew, That Was A Close One

Just a few more inches and the whole planet would have been titan flakes!

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 13, 2026

Games

World Of Warcraft Is About To Remix Its Most Beloved Expansion

A cold, cold summer

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 12, 2026
CultureNews

World Of Warcraft: Forever Announced As The Vanilla WoW Reboot We’ve Been Waiting For

World of Warcraft: Forever revisits the first year of WoW, but with a serious twist

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 12, 2026
CultureNews

Warcraft 3: Reforged To Get A New Campaign Starring Arthas And Sylvanas, Out Today

Reforged reforged

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 12, 2026
CultureNews

World Of Warcraft’s Next Expansion, The Last Titan, Is Out Next Year

RIP to Wyrmrest Temple I guess

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 12, 2026
CultureNews

Hearthstone To Get Its First New Class In Four Years Next Spring

And even sooner, we'll see the next expansion: Reign of the Black Empire

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 12, 2026

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