This is Bubbles. (The one standing next to her is some weird fish mage whose name doesn’t matter right now.)

Bubbles took a sabbatical for a couple years, but she’s back to fulfill her job of lobbing balls of water at fools with deadly force to help her master. Dutiful and unquestioning. Water Elementals are known for harmoniously agreeing with those who summoned them, rather than entering nebulous “contracts” or being employed against their wills (which usually leads to constantly plotting revenge, and that’s antithetical to good water flow).

We’re in The Queue, a daily Q&A column that delivers answers to questions day after day, with consistency and a dash of spunk.

This week our hosts mostly focused on everything that’s coming soon in WoW and a few other games. Patch 12.0.5 got a release date — April 21 — so our cohosts discussed all the stuff coming up in that patch, from Decor Duel to fishing to transmog. All the endgame activities. But WoW isn’t the only...

With the opening chapter of Midnight concluded, we are left still pondering some of the most intriguing mysteries in the Worldsoul Saga. There is one in particular that I’d like to explore today, if you’re willing to take a walk on the speculative side with me: the origins of Xal’atath. Last time I folded up...

The Burning Crusade Classic Phase 2, styled the Overlords of Outland, launches worldwide on WoW Classic Anniversary realms on May 14, 2026 at 3pm pacific time. This phase continues our adventures in Outland with new content for everyone to experience, let’s take a look at everything that will come to TBC Classic anniversary realms on May 14! What...

Fish are always up to something, and while Warcraft has several talking fish, I’m extremely concerned about the addition of fishing to Diablo 4 in the upcoming expansion. What kind of fish will we find in Sanctuary? What will they whisper in our ears? Will we replace the Cow Level with a Fish Level?

I have so many concerns.

But for now, this is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I answer your questions and we all get to hang out in the comments and chat. Let’s get to it.

The Epic Games Store is giving away the weirdly gorgeous stealth game The Stone of Madness for free this week. The Stone of Madness Release Date: January 28, 2025 Game Type: stealth, strategy POV: 3rd person, isometric Party: Single Player DLC: There is a Special Edition with the soundtrack and art book In The Stone...

One of the new features coming in WoW patch 12.0.5 on April 21 is something new called the Voidforge. Everyone’s favorite suspiciously-nice Domanaar pal, Decimus, has been working on something new with our assistance — if you haven’t seen these quests already, you may need to complete the quest Artifice of Aggression, after which he’ll...

Sadly, this week’s Hearthstone Tavern Brawl is the Heroic Brawliseum Standard. It’s a strange amalgamation of the Arena and the Ladder, with an entry fee and a “three strikes and you’re out” mechanic that finishes your run as soon as you loose three matches. Unlike Arena, there’s no draft, which means you’re going to have...

I’ve always been a bit of a contrarian.

Is Midnight the Elf-centric team-up expansion of our dreams, or what? That’s the listener question which serves as our jumping off point this week. And our cohosts conclude: Yes, mostly! Indeed, Midnight is the elf-o-rama we’ve always wanted — nay, deserved. Matt, Joe, and Eric point out some of their shared elf-y foibles (must we always...

In recent interviews and public chats with the player community, Executive Producer and Vice President Holly Longdale has mentioned that she feels World of Warcraft is underutilized and could be expanded into other media. While there are already quite a few spinoffs and past questionable forays into other areas, it’s always fun to speculate on...

Diablo 4 season 12 ends Tuesday, April 28, 2026 with the launch of Lord of Hatred, and season 13 kicks off immediately after with the seasonal rollover and new expansion. Diablo 4 season 12, Season of Slaughter, started March 11 with the understanding that this would be an abbreviated season bridging us to the release of the next expansion, Lord...

Every so often I have a quick poke through my computer to see what kind of nonsense I’ve forgotten I have on my hard drive. And sometimes, it’s like, oh, right. The thing I intended to finish. And then maybe I do finish it now that I’m reminded, and maybe it just sits moldering for a while. Who knows. Right now the idea of diving back into Blue Prince just to finish the last little bit I have left is very overwhelming, but I do have a full multimedia spreadsheet to fall back on. Anyway, given the nature of the game I’m positive this image contains a billion spoilers but who knows what they could possibly be. Sorry?

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll get around to answering probably. Like, eventually. Don’t rush me.

We’re well into Season 1 of Midnight, so hopefully you’ve made steady progress towards the Voidspire tier set transmogs — but which ones are shining bright in Silvermoon and which are barred entry at the gates with Umbric? It’s time to fasten our Belts of Fashion Critiquing and evaluate each of these 13 brand new...

It’s another quick maintenance day for World of Warcraft, with just an hour of downtime scheduled for all servers. There’s nothing in particular scheduled to go live with maintenance, so hopefully that means we’ll just have a round of restarts before all realms are back online. But there’s always the chance maintenance is extended, so...

This week, season 2 of Overwatch begins, with new Hero Sierra joining the fray, a new battle pass, and tons of smaller additions to discuss. The Overwatch team made it easy on us by jamming it all into an action-packed trailer. In addition to Sierra coming to the base game, there are a few more new...

I had a nice, relaxing weekend out and about (or oot and aboot if you’re Canadian), and I’m already missing it.

It’s very rude that weekends are only two days long; we should all get together and petition someone to make them longer. Maybe three or four days! That’d be nice and civilized, I think.

While I go back to work and grumble about not being able to sleep more, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

There’s a lot going on about a lot going on, as Blizzard continues to release a stream of news about things coming soon. Things that are almost here but aren’t here quite yet. But some of these are pretty close, like Hearthstone Battlegrounds Season 13, which launches this week. But also coming soon, we have...

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.