Podcast
Lore Watch Podcast: What Angry Keanu Reeves can teach us about WoW lore
Join us this week as we use Cyberpunk 2077 as a jumping off point to explore character building in video game storytelling, settings as characters, what power means in these worlds, the history of immortality and how many of these elements are reflected in WoW lore.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: Why no PTR for WoW patch 10.2.6?
Join us as we discuss Blizzard’s efforts to maintain the secrets of WoW patch 10.2.6 by not hosting it on the PTR, why we approve Diablo 4’s delay in its new gauntlet and leaderboard feature, the new dragon riding mount armor in WoW’s current seasonal content, and why we love our transmog a little too much.
Lore Watch Podcast: Are Forsaken Death Knights the secret to infinite anima?
Join us this week as we go on a wilder tangent than usual (and that’s saying a lot) about the connection between the Forsaken and Death Knights through pain and suffering and how that could be Azeroth’s own perpetual energy source (because science!) Yeah, hope you’re strapped in for this one.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: Record profits and record layoffs at Blizzard
Join us as we discuss the devastating layoffs that hit Blizzard while Activision leadership exits with mind boggling payouts.
Lore Watch Podcast: Deep diving into the new Gilneas storyline
Join us this week as we explore WoW patch 10.2.5’s Gilneas storyline including Lillian Voss's struggle with what’s left of her humanity and Calia Menethil grappling with her family’s dark legacy.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: The glory of respecs and robots in Diablo 4’s Season 3
Join us as we discuss the new features that have rolled out in Diablo 4 with the launch of Season 3 including the revamped respec system and the new robot companion.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: Should WoW have romanceable characters?
Join us as we discuss the charm and challenges of implementing a Bioware/Baldur’s Gate romanceable companion feature to WoW (and how Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO pulled it off.) We also cover Diablo 4’s upcoming Season 3 that grants you a robot companion, if WoW’s patch 10.2.5 Gilneas storyline redeems Genn Greymane’s cowardice during the Third War, and which Warcraft character would be which superhero in a Warcraft/DC/Marvel mashup.
Lore Watch Podcast: Who are the key elves in the Emerald Dream storyline?
Join us this week as we explore the key elven NPCs in the WoW patch 10.2 Guardians of the Dream campaign, the possible plans of the First Ones to prevent the universe from being devoured, and the tinfoil hat theory that the leaders of each the four Shadowlands’ factions are actually Titan constructs.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: The age of community driven raid tier sets is upon us
Join us as we discuss the insane announcement that WoW players can vote on tier set bonuses and appearances for Dragonflight Season 4, the launch of the last Wrath Classic phase, Diablo 3 Season 30 mixing the three previous season themes together, and the winding down of Hearthstone’s Duels mode.
Lore Watch Podcast: How the ending of Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion changed everything
Join us this week as we explore how the ending of Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion reframes everything you understood about the game.
