We start off Lore Watch this week wishing Mephisto a Happy Father's Day -- but are there any other fathers among the evils of Diablo?

The latest World of Warcraft Twitch Drop is a new color variant of the murloc plushie decor we've seen a few times before: the Cuddly Cotton Candy Grrgle, a bright pink and blue option on this cute Player Housing Decor item.

The latest World of Warcraft patch is now live: WoW patch 12.0.7 launched on June 16, 2026.

It’s that time of year, when the humidity and heat conspire, and there is a predictable, yet unpredictable, 15 minute thunderstorm almost every afternoon. Comes on suddenly, pours, then stops and the sun comes out immediately, the pavement smoking as the rain evaporates. It’s a pretty wild phenomenon I haven’t really seen in many other places, and it means the dog days of summer are truly upon us.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we have an umbrella just in case.

Though the weather may be bright and sunny as summer approaches, the pages on the Dungeons & Dragons calendar have turned, revealing the first of three themed seasons for 2026 releases: the Season of Horror, with the release of Ravenloft: The Horrors Within.

This week's World of Warcraft maintenance is a quick one for many players, but a patch is rolling out for Midnight servers that will keep the realms offline all day.

With their ship missing and a cheerful reality TV show host narrating their every move, our mercenary crew's simple mission — retrieve a lost pet — has gotten a lot more complicated.

I spent the afternoon on Sunday walking around a park with my favorite person and a 163-pound St. Bernard. The local Humane Society puts on a big afternoon for people to bring pets to the park called, fittingly, Pets in the Park. We saw lots of dogs of all shapes and sizes, a few cats, some gerbils, and a bird. Somewhere there might’ve been a turtle too! There was a dachshund dash, and vendors, kiddie pools for the dogs to splash around in, and even free pup cups from Starbucks!

A great time was had by all. Arthur the St. Bernard was a very good boy and well behaved, which is never a guarantee when there are so many new smells and animals around. He was definitely the centre of attention wherever he went. There wasn’t a bigger dog that we saw all day! He even got to meet a very chill cat that was being carried around by its owner all day.

While I go and tell him what a good boy he was again, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — the Queue!

Last week may have been the calm before (and after) the storm, without much in the way of news: but this week, there's activity everywhere.

Feels like good games are just dropping from the sky. There are so many games that have been announced recently that I’m tremendously excited about, like Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, the long-awaited finale to the FF7 Remake project, seven years after it started. But there are many more, and we’ll talk about them — but also about WoW, and other random things, like hot dogs, and gravity!

This is The Queue. It’s a column. It’s daily. It has Qs. Let’s gather together, look at the sky, and wait for those As to drop down, and let’s try to catch them. It’ll be fun!