Rossi posed the question of what everyone’s doing before the WoW expansion launches and, honestly, I don’t know. I suppose it’s a nice quiet time to grind out old achievements and transmogs, but I’m having trou...
2018-08-01 08:45:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Monday newsday! While we haven’t yet hit the exciting event of the week (i.e. tomorrow’s rollout of the next chuck of World of Warcraft pre-expansion story), there’s plenty to talk about, so let’s get right to it.
Did last week’s Jaina video make you wonder about her father?
This week our Lore Watchers Anne, Matt, and Joe take a look at Warbringers: Jaina, and Jaina’s life in general – which dovetails nicely into WoW’s pre-expansion War of the Thorns event, and the actions of Sylvanas Windrunner. It’s an exploration of good and evil and the lives of two of Azeroth’s well-known leaders lead...
2018-07-29 22:30:31 +0000 UTC View Post
If you've been reading these silly things for long, you know how much I like to wax poetic about my favorite underdog Overwatch League team, the Shanghai Dragons. Since the regular season — and the Dragons' matches — came to a close, I haven't had much to say about OWL. But the grand finals just kicked off and all I can say ...
2018-07-28 05:30:04 +0000 UTC View Post
So, do you think High Inquisitor Whitemane in Heroes of the Storm knows she became a Death Knight in WoW? Because that seems like something she maybe wouldn’t approve of, and I’m a little worried how she’ll react when s...
2018-07-27 04:57:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In the Boomsday Project trailer, poor Peter Whalen was turned into a chicken and I don't think anyone is sufficiently worried about that. Even in the most recent card reveal stream, Brian Kibler seemed pretty chill with his chicken co-host. But Hearthstone loves its teasers, and hasn't gotten around to tel...
2018-07-26 04:25:58 +0000 UTC View PostHi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut. If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can head over to SoundCloud and nab i...
2018-07-25 22:38:25 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a lot going on out in the world of Blizzard, but it's a relatively quiet day on Blizzard Watch. So let's hit up the features on the site today and then move on to the other news.
The pre-expansion event has kicked off!
Jaina. The word is definitely Jaina. And if you try to tell me that Jaina is a name, not a word, I will counter that it can be both. Today, we got a whisper of Jaina's story, and it was beautiful and terrifying. Let's take a look at it (and everything else).
It's all about Jaina. Did I mention Jaina? Jain...
2018-07-24 04:26:38 +0000 UTC View Post
By Anne Stickney
This character profile has been written for Firiun, one of our supporters. If you enjoy it, you can check out the other profiles we’ve written, too!
“Excuse me.” The vo...
2018-07-23 21:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Who's ready for the weekend? Me. Definitely me. And probably you, too. So let's check out the news and then head off into a weekend full of video games and Netflix and, I don't know, whatever else you kids do for fun.
So what happened today?
I need it
By Matthew Rossi
This character profile has been written for Erumarä, one of our supporters. If you enjoy it, you can check out the other profiles we’ve written, too!
"The answer is still ...
2018-07-20 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It may not be patch day anymore, but that doesn’t mean our problems are over. Patch day was a bit shaky and there are still plenty of bugs, which is probably why Ion Hazzikostas spent the first ten minutes of today’s Q&A apologizing and expla...
2018-07-20 06:07:44 +0000 UTC View PostHi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut. If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can head over to SoundCloud and nab i...
2018-07-18 21:41:31 +0000 UTC View Post
It's patch day in World of Warcraft, and the servers are back up and running patch 8.0.1. Mostly. As with any patch day, there's been some small, itsy bitsy amount of instability. (I'm starting to think I really should have made a "maybe" image for 2018-07-18 02:32:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah, the day before the day. In the morning the WoW servers will go down and patch 8.0 will start rolling out. It's the end of a lot of things, but it's also a new beginning. Battle for Azeroth is just around the corner.
So let's take a look at the news.
Start your journey into
This week our Lore Watchers Anne, Matt, and Joe decided to use this last Sunday before the launch of 8.0 to take a look back at the lore and story of Legion as a whole. What worked? What didn’t? Was Legion missing anything? All this and more are discussed in an hour of reminiscing about the expansion we’re about to say goodb...
2018-07-15 22:39:34 +0000 UTC View Post
After the big reveal that patch 8.0 is arriving on Tuesday (or Wednesday for those of you in Europe), it's been a quiet day for all things Blizzard. Still, we'll work with what we'v...
2018-07-13 21:35:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The big news came late in the day on Thursday. (I was in Antorus fighting Coven at the time, but fortunately Mitch responded to my SOS and wrote it up so I didn’t have to try to summarize all things 8.0 between pulls.) as many of us expected, WoW’s big patch day is coming next week: 2018-07-13 07:15:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally! Overwatch League has returned to us: the playoffs kicked off tonight and they'll be going on for three weeks. So we're back to the glorious days of esports (though done with the glorious days of the Shanghai Dragons, at least until next season). After those three weeks, we will be back living a quieter life, devoid of e...
2018-07-12 04:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut. If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can head over to SoundCloud and nab i...
2018-07-11 21:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post
These days, Blizzard has enough games to make Tuesday always patch day. Which is to say that even though World of Warcraft didn't get 8.0, we still had two patches roll out today. (Mathematically, that's a lot. Trust me on this.)
So let's get on with it and talk about the news.
Did I mention it'...
2018-07-11 01:24:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Another day over, another day closer to Battle for Azeroth. But maybe not that close (yet) because we probably won’t have a pre-patch this week. (I got to break out our fab Illidan no GIF and everything to talk ab...
2018-07-10 03:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a relatively quiet day in the world of Blizzard (which is not actually the same as Blizzard World), so let's take a brief stroll through the news and then get to our games.
You're going to need more experience to level in Battle for Azeroth
Is it the end of the week? The beginning of the week? With a holiday landing right in the center of the work-week, I've spent all day typing away and trying to decide.
I'm still not sure.
So instead of confusing myself further, let's take a look at today's (somewhat skimpy) holiday week news.
Surprise! It's...
2018-07-06 04:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm just going to say that if you didn't hear that headline in Jack Skellington's voice I am disappointed in you. Sure, it isn't Christmas or Halloween, but it's still a holiday (at least for some of us). So happy early holiday to our American readers, and happy Tuesday to the rest of you. Tomorrow is downtime for the Blizzard W...
2018-07-04 01:39:08 +0000 UTC View PostHi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut. If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can head over to SoundCloud and nab i...
2018-07-03 22:07:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah, another terrible and thrilling work-week is upon us (at least for those of us on weekday grind). But it's (hopefully) the end of the workday for everyone reading this, so let's ignore the outside world for a little while and talk about video games. Then maybe we could play some video games. Perfect.
Ever wanted to ...
2018-07-03 00:56:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This week our Lore Watchers Anne, Matt, and Joe jump into answering your emails, but get distracted by a lengthy discussion about the Light, death, undeath, the naaru, what happens after you die, Calia Menethil, and the nature of souls in World of Warcraft. It’s a wild ride from start to finish – please note, there a...
2018-07-01 22:51:41 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a few days after Blizzard decided to max out everyone's Artifacts, and it's still all anyone's talking about. (And taking 2018-06-30 03:30:49 +0000 UTC View Post
