This week, we have a brand-new Hearthstone Tavern Brawl, and it’s a pretty fun one. Splendiferous Showdown! revives the decks provided to you by Splendiferous Whizbang, a legendary card that gave you an experimental deck that broke the normal rules of the game. In this Brawl, you’ll simply pick a class and be provided with...

Seriously. What a week. And it’s actually Friday, so I get to say this without having some funny person tell me “Red, it’s Wednesday” or whatever.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where sometimes things are just moving too fast and we’re exhausted, man.

We’re all about Easter, with both the Noblegarden festival and the Race to World First this week. Liz starts off recounting the epic Race to World First, which started off a little ho hum with a split tier, but took a few wild turns toward the end. Then, we talk Noblegarden, and Joe and Matt...

We learned a lot about the future direction of World of Warcraft from the recent fireside chat with Executive Producer and Vice President Holly Longdale, and some of the conversation focused on accessibility and UI improvements. Longdale acknowledged that there was work to do on this front in all areas, but also turned the Q&A...

Thursdays are an enigma that I have yet to solve, and I don’t think today’s looking much better either. But Thursday is here, and we cannot ignore it, only accept it.

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World of Warcraft’s newest expansion, Midnight, just launched, but Blizzard is not content to bask in the success of what is, by all accounts, a well-received expansion launch, and the developers are already hard at work on patch 12.0.5. We already knew from the WoW 2026 roadmap that we could expect patch 12.0.5 early in the...

As it releases today, the Epic Games Store is giving away Prop Sumo for free this week. Prop Sumo Release Date: April 9, 2026 Game Type: Beam Em Up, Arena Brawler POV: 3rd person, side scroller (sort of) Party: Single Player, co-op, PVP DLC: None If you love Super Smash Bros but wish it was wackier, Prop...

Leveling professions in Midnight can be an expensive, tedious process, so we’re happy to report that the Darkmoon Faire is in town to award you with easy profession points right as the expansion launches. All it takes is venturing out to the Faire and doing a simple, fairly easily completed quest, which will give you two...

She’s been teased in the lead up to Overwatch season 2, but now we can put a name with the face: Sierra will be the next Overwatch Hero. A new cinematic served as a flashy, action-packed introduction, but didn’t give away many details. Sierra is a DPS Hero, and she has a little butterfly mech...

So I have collected all of the stuff I wanted for the Doom: The Dark Ages crossover, unlocked Torment 3 (and frankly I’m not feeling like I’m prepared for the difficulty) and otherwise I feel done with the whole turning into the Butcher aspect of the Season. Since I now have a metric boatload of Barbarians to choose to level through the upcoming Lord of Hatred expansion, I think now may be the time to get in some World of Warcraft and let my Barbarians (and that one Paladin) rest for a while.

So, Horde or Alliance? I have an Elf ready for both factions.

This week’s Lore Watch Podcast takes us back in the day, with a couple questions that ask about lore from the vanilla days. We start off talking arcs. The Alliance has a great arc involving the Defias in their initial starting zone, which evolves to involve Lady Prestor in the middle levels, all the way...

A new season is about to start for Hearthstone Battlegrounds: Cataclysm Calls will be here April 14, and it promises to shake things up a little more than usual with two new keywords, Fodder for Demons, and Chromadrake for Dragons. In addition to that, Trinkets are returning, and we’re getting several new minions, a few...

POV: You’re in the middle of a Nightmare Prey, and happen to run across a little capybara with anxiety. The capybara only trusts you to get him somewhere safe, but he doesn’t want to ride on a mount because that’s too scary so he’d run away if you mount up. So you truck across the entirety of Zul’Aman pursued by blood puddles and weird ghosts and a few light ambushes.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we give you the answers just as long as you don’t scare our little friend.

Spring is in bloom in the northern hemisphere, which means it’s time for game developers, tabletop enthusiasts, cosplay aficionados, and nerds in general to descend upon Boston for PAX East. I was once again lucky enough to be able to attend, with a focus on upcoming games from smaller development teams. Sure, I could have...

We’ve had a lot of lengthy maintenance days lately, so it’s refreshing to get a single hour of maintenance across all World of Warcraft realms. If maintenance runs as scheduled, we’ll be back in game and being disappointed by what’s in the Great Vault in no time. Here’s the WoW maintenance schedule for Tuesday, April...

Spring is in the air on Azeroth, and that means it’s time to break out the egg-collecting baskets and celebrate Noblegarden. The week-long event will run from Monday April 6 through Monday April 13 this year, and a small update to this annual celebration means that you almost certainly have some more rewards to earn,...

The days out there are getting sunnier. Unfortunately, I don’t have a good set of prescription sunglasses, so I’m left squinting at things a lot of the time. It’s going to be a long summer. Maybe this will be the year that I finally get a pair. They’ve always seemed like a huge luxury, which I why I don’t have a pair already. Also, what if I’m bad at hanging onto sunglasses? I’ve heard lots of stories of people losing every pair of sunglasses they own.

While I try to find a new hat to wear all the time, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

It’s another somewhat slow week in the Blizzard gaming world, but what can we say, we’re too busy playing Midnight to be upset. After all, I have reputations to grind, fishing to train, and world events that need to be completed before reset. It makes sense to have some slow news days when we’re all...

We’re heading into the third week of the Midnight Season 1 Race to World First, and things have gotten spicy. This is an unusual raid tier split across three raids: Dreamrift, Voidspire, and March on Quel’danas. Dreamrift was a one-boss raid with minimal trash, and we never expected it to be a big roadblock this...

If you’ve ever wanted to strap your one-handed sword to your World of Warcraft character’s back, then great news — a new dropdown menu in the transmog interface coming in Midnight’s patch 12.0.5 will allow us to do just that (and more!) Ever since I acquired my Quickening Blade of the Prince from the original...