April Fools' Day 2026 had a great selection of jokes from the various Blizzard games -- and even a few standouts from other companies as well.

When we returned to Silvermoon City, my Blood Elf Death Knight felt like she needed to fit in. All dressed in red and gold, looking like a perfectly normal Blood Elf. You might mistake her for a Paladin, even, if you didn’t pay attention to the pale skin and glowing blue eyes.

But of course the Silvermoon City guards saw right through that. I get constant insults from guards asking me about my “dark master” and in general barely tolerating my presence. Well, I tried.

Of course these days I’m not fitting in in all new ways. For one, I don’t think I’m tall enough to be mistaken for a Nightborne, but also my transmog needs a lot of work. We’ll see how it goes.

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

Lovers of wanton consequence-free violence rejoice!

On Monday, World of Warcraft Executive Producer and Vice President Holly Longdale logged onto Discord for a fireside chat with players and community members.

We've got ourselves a brand-new Hearthstone Tavern Brawl this week!

I understand that it may not be to everyone’s tastes, but personally, I can’t come up with anything I’m enjoying more in my convalescence than a rousing game of pretending the Doom Slayer crashed onto Sanctuary somehow and is now showing an entirely new set of demons why the only thing they should fear is me.

It’s the Queue, everyone.

Comic book artist Sam Kieth passed away earlier this month as a result of Lewy Body dementia, so our Lore Watch Podcast team wanted to take an episode to talk about his impact on the genre and pop culture as a whole.

On Wednesday, April 1 Blizzard made the surprise announcement that a new animated series set in the World of Warcraft universe is in the works: Titan Roommates is a light-hearted buddy comedy focusing on the often-strained relationship between Aman'thul and Sargeras during their ongoing non-voluntary cohabitation.

I am at that peculiar crossroads between excited anticipation, and the melancholy that comes when something is over. The final episode of The Long Dark‘s story mode releases today. While I’ll still be able to keep playing it in survival mode, and revisit the story as well, it remains one of my most cherished gaming experiences, and I had a genuine lump in my throat when they announced it “went gold” on Steam a couple weeks ago.

This is it. It’s almost over. But it’s almost a new beginning.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and I definitely didn’t write this early so I could binge a video game for the rest of the day.

There's some new content coming to World of Warcraft today with the launch of the March on Quel'Danas raid in Midnight and Phase 4: Escalation in Mists of Pandaria Classic.