It’s my eight-year Blizzard Watch anniversary! This very day! It’s hard to believe that it’s been so long. Surely it was just yesterday; now let me take a big sip of water and take a look at a calendar…

Way back when I got hired, I’d basically never written anything outside of school. Now I have 700 articles to my name according to the tracker on WordPress. This is also apparently my 700th article, which is pretty cool! I still remember when I started Anne introducing herself and saying, “Don’t be scared, but I have notes!” Amazingly, she’s as nice as you expect her to be, and she helped me to be a better writer. As well as literally everyone else that Blizzard Watch has gotten to write or edit any of our articles. Special shout-outs to Anna and Liz for keeping everything running and putting up with my overuse of the exclamation point. Even though if they’re reading this right now, they’re shaking their head at how many I’ve already used. It’s been eight years — I’m allowed to be excited!

My first article about Daughter of the Sea still even remains cool! I’m glad it was about something really fun, and not just a patch note roundup. Maybe someday Blizzard will give us another sea-shanty to obsess over.

So here’s to you all for reading my words, and here’s to Blizzard Watch for giving me a place to put those words. Thanks to them, I’ve gotten to do a bunch of really cool things, and I can’t wait to see what else I can do in the future.

While I daydream about that, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

This week's podcast kicked off with the discussion that has been pinging around the World of Warcraft community this week: a GM cheating so a streamer could clear a M+23 dungeon on time.

Yesterday at Gen Con the Dungeons & Dragons team revealed an updated roadmap and several new releases, including the "worst kept secret" that has been bouncing around the internet this week: a crossover with none other than World of Warcraft, with a rule expansion that brings everything you'd need to play a Warcraft campaign into D&D 5.5e.

Diablo 4 patch 3.2.0 is scheduled to launch in September alongside Season 15, and we couldn't be more hyped because some beloved features from prior Diablo titles are making a comeback.

This coming August the World of Warcraft Trading Post will line its inventory with new Old Western-style transmogs, weapons, as well as mounts that are not Old West in style but kind of cool nonetheless.

The end of a season in World of Warcraft always heralds the beginning of a new season, full of excitement and adventure. Or in this case, snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

But I have kind of gotten tired of Season 1 content… even though I haven’t entirely finished everything… so off to the Coiled Isle we go.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I attempt to answer your questions. Let’s get to it.

Every week the Epic Games Store gives away a game or two for free.

This week's Hearthstone Tavern Brawl is another oldie.

As we approach the end of Midnight season 1, while many of us are biding our time waiting for new raids and dungeons, a small group of people are working harder than ever -- the folks who run absurdly high Mythic+ keys.

My spouse and I are going to see Spider-Man: Brand New Day this weekend, a date night and the first movie I’ll see in a theatre since 2020. I won’t pretend I’m not nervous — COVID left marks on my soul that have never really faded and the realization that many people living around me would be perfectly happy to let me and other people with risk factors die instead of doing simple, harmless things like wearing masks or getting vaccinated.

Still, I want to see Spider-Man do Spider-Man things. And at least I know he’d wear a mask to keep me safe, if he were real.