Warcraft Widows

The romantic partners of World of Warcraft obsessives.

On the day that the Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack for World of Warcraft was released, The Brisbane Times, along with a host of other news sources, cautioned:

Widows of Warcraft, be warned - you may not see much of your boyfriend / partner / husband / defacto / intended in the next six months or so.

(In 1928, “Crowell’s Dictionary of English Grammar” defined a “golf widow” as “a humorous colloquial name for a woman whose husband spends much time playing golf and little time at home.”)