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We may have finally recovered from BlizzCon. Maybe. (I still feel like I need a nap.) Over the last week we’ve swept up a little more BlizzCon news and started diving into the World of Warcraft: Forever beta, which is keeping us busy. (There’s always just one more quest to do.) If you’re out of...

It’s Friday! Can you believe it was just BlizzCon last weekend? Honestly, even as someone who was a somewhat disinterested watcher going into the whole thing, it was hard not to get more than a little excited about some of the stuff that we’ve all discussed endlessly all week around here. Now it’s a new weekend, and I have to shift into a tabletop headspace: I have four games scheduled for this weekend. Pray for my poor brain cells, they’re gonna get worn out by Sunday night.

This is the Queue, our daily question and answer question column where the definition of “question” can get pretty broad, but so can the definition of “answer.” Let’s get into it.

BlizzCon just wrapped, and so there is so much to talk about we couldn’t pack it all into an hour. We spent around an hour on WoW Forever, the new Classic+ that was rumored and is now coming to fruition with a sort-of alternate history. There was a lot of Midnight news too, including Talebound, which is an...

One of the least advertised things on the BlizzCon 2026 map was a small area in the World of Warcraft section labeled “Last Call at the Arcantina“. It turned out to be a hyper-short tabletop RPG experience for four players that was super fun, easy to jump into, and (hopefully) a sign of more similar...

I’m not sure, but after playing World of Warcraft for over 20 years, I’m willing to give it a chance. And we’ll know how things play out very soon, because the beta is scheduled to go live at NQT.

But while we wait (seconds) for that to happen or (hours) for the servers to be stable, let’s get to the questions. This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column.

World of Warcraft: Forever is bringing new and expanded content and gameplay to Classic Azeroth when it launches worldwide on November 4, 2026 as part of your regular World of Warcraft subscription, no additional purchase necessary! If you just can’t wait for November, there’s an opportunity to get in early because the WoW: Forever beta testing begins on...

As you may have deduced by my recent run of BlizzCon coverage, last weekend was my first time attending the event in person. It was two full days of announcements, demos, nostalgia, and more cosplay than you can shake a Pepe staff at. More than anything, I wanted to attend the opening ceremony in person....

Throughout BlizzCon 2026, we received plenty of information and news about the huge reveal of World of Warcraft: Forever, the roadmap for the rest World of Warcraft: Midnight, and even teasers for The Last Titan and Wrath of the Lich King Remix. Noticeably missing from the BlizzCon stage and schedule was anything related to the future of World...

With the release of World of Warcraft: Forever we will see a new race called the Skyborne, an elven race who were descended from Highborne elven exiles who made a pact with the Skywall wind elementals generations ago. Native to the Zephras Isle, in the alternative timeline that is Forever – they have recently rejoined...

Hey now, you’re an all-star, get your game on, go play. We’ve had Hearthstone Tavern Brawls that ask us to choose three cards to build our decks and Brawls that ask us to choose 2 cards to build our decks —but this week’s All-Star Squad Tavern Brawl in Hearthstone is all about picking one perfect card...

Is anyone else still voraciously consuming BlizzCon 2026 content? Watching missed panels, reactions and thoughts by content creators, analysis and predictions, etc.?

No? Just me? Great.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we ponder just how much time we’ll end up investing in WoW: Forever while daydreaming about Hearthstone Monks — and answering your questions.

With the new Lanterns show, Joe and Matt wanted to discuss the lore of The Green Lantern, though without spoiling the plot of the new show. They start off discussing the comic in its place in comics history and its parallels to the Flash. The core of the conversation discusses Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, and John Stewart,...

One of World of Warcraft: Midnight reveals at BlizzCon was the roadmap of future content leading up to the next expansion, The Last Titan. This roadmap is set to take us up to summer 2027 and past Season 3 and several content updates. First up, we have the imminent patch 12.1.5 coming this autumn, which...

There are a great many dimensions that make gatherings of nerds charming and fun, and perhaps none put a smile on the faces of passersby better than cosplay. As usual, the folks who poured dozens (or hundreds) of hours into meticulously crafted real-life transmog did not disappoint at BlizzCon 2026. This is but a small...

At the end of BlizzCon’s World of Warcraft Midnight What’s Next panel, Blizzard devs revealed that Wrath of the Lich King Remix is coming sometime in the summer of 2027, around the same time as the last Midnight patch 12.2.7. During the World of Warcraft Live Q&A, Lead Content Designer Jake Miller informed us that more concrete information will...

I just love a good glittery magic girl transformation sequence.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and 私たちは答えを提供します (though honestly, sometimes I prefer the dub).

World of Warcraft: Forever‘s Campfire system is a new, multi-purpose mechanic that’s part of the reworked and expanded profession system for the game mode. It’s meant to promote social interactions and cooperation with other players in the world, it gives players a chance to rest which buffs their stats, and helps players give each other...

This week’s World of Warcraft maintenance is an exact match to last week’s maintenance: all WoW Classic servers are scheduled to be offline for one hour, while Midnight servers are scheduled to be offline for two hours. That’s not a bad maintenance day (as long as it sticks to schedule). Here’s the WoW maintenance schedule for...

World of Warcraft: Forever is launching on November 4 with a 40-player Onyxia’s Lair raid as well as two brand new raids: Hyjal Summit (20-player) and the Barrow Deeps (10-player). While we know a little about the circumstances of these new instances, we did not hear much at BlizzCon regarding just who we would be...