World of Warcraft continues to pay tribute to Mats "Ibelin" Steen, the subject of the recent ... He is also honored in-game with a gravestone in Elwynn Forest. Blizzard more recently offered ...

World of Warcraft is seemingly adding Lord Ibelin Redmoore, the player character of The Remarkable Life of Ibelin subject Mats Steen ... of his real-life grave on an islet in Crystal Lake in ...

Mats Steen barely left his home in the final years of his life as he battled Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare condition that causes muscle degeneration - and until his death at age 25 ...

In new documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, a Norwegian couple talks about the rich experiences their disabled son had online in the World of Warcraft game – without their knowledge.

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on Jan. 8, 2025. Find that audio here. Mats Steen had a rare disease that wasted his muscles until he could barely move his fingers. His family ...

Mats Steen, from Norway, spent hours playing "World of Warcraft." (Bjorg Engdahl Medieop/Netflix © 2024) ...

When Mats Steen died of Duchenne muscular dystrophy at the age of 25 in 2014, he left behind the passwords to a rich life that he had lived online as his condition worsened, much of it in the ...

On Nov. 18, 2014, Mats Steen died. The preceding 25 years had not been easy for the Oslo, Norway, native, who at an early age was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare condition that ...

Mats Steen in ‘The Remarkable Life of Ibelin’ Courtesy of Netflix. Bjorg Engdahl Medieop/Netflix ROBERT STEEN, MAT’S FATHER After Mats’ death, his story was published as an article in the ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The documentary "The Remarkable Life of Ibelin" tells the story of Mats Steen, a Norwegian man with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, who found friendship and purpose and joy in a ...

Netflix’s new documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin starts with a story of tragedy: Norwegian gamer Mats Steen was born with a rare degenerative muscular disease that slowly took away his ...