World of Warcraft: The War Within is out—kicking off with banger zones, stupendous side quests, and early access gripes

World of Warcraft: The War Within has launched—although, if you had enough dough to shell out for the early access, you've already been playing it for a few days. And while it's early on in the expansion's lifecycle (I'm about two-thirds of the way through the second zone myself, as a complete-all-side quests fiend) things seem to be going pretty well.

The expansion represents a few major gear-shifts from Blizzard, angling for more detailed storytelling with better villains, the ability...