Game showcase summer has begun: these early weeks of June fill the void of E3 with video game announcements, capping off with Summer Game Fest 2026 itself on Friday.

Most World of Warcraft players have a light Tuesday maintenance ahead of them, with just an hour of downtime for Midnight, Classic, and The Burning Crusade servers.

Grab your rod and reel because it's time to go fish up a murloc — not in World of Warcraft, but in Diablo 4.

This week on the Tavern Watch Podcast, we discuss some exciting news for fans of all things that go bump in the night: a new Vampire: the Masquerade project was teased for GenCon 2026, including a commitment to "human-created" art, as opposed to AI slop.

I went and saw one of my favorite bands last week, Alestorm!

They put on one heck of a great show. The standout is, of course, this giant inflatable duck, but they also had a singing parrot and a rapping shark come out for a couple of songs, so it was a pretty wild time. There was crowd surfing, and a mosh pit, and at one point the mosh pit sat on the floor and all rowed in unison with the singer, and a whole bunch of songs about drinking rum! What’s not to love?

I’m a little sad that they didn’t do their cover of The Last Saskatchewan Pirate, written by a local band, but I can understand not changing the tour setlist for just one stop.

While I dive deep into the pirate metal rabbit hole, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

Grab your mushroom-chopping axe, because we're headed to Harandar for the first mid-season World of Warcraft raid in several expansions.

Summer Game Fest is coming on Friday, and we're pretty excited — not so much for the big corporate showcase, but for all of the fantastic smaller showcases that are going on all week.

One of the discussions around the current state of affairs in World of Warcraft centers around repair costs -- namely, how expensive they're getting.

Discord accounts being hacked is a hot topic every few months, as a new scam surfaces and people warn each other via network.

We don’t always get to witness characters getting story advancement and resolution, or happy endings — or something kinda close to “happy,” at least — so what happened to Vanessa VanCleef is really nice to see. I can’t say I disliked her as head of the Defias Brotherhood, trying to avenge her father and make bloody justice (however distorted), but I’m more than happy that she decided to trade the poisoned daggers for baskets full of bread, and dedicate her life to feeding the downtrodden people of Westfall instead of doing murders. It makes me all warm and fuzzy.

This is The Queue, a column where we answer your questions every day, whether they’re about WoW, TV shows, or some more WoW. And we also get to ramble about characters we like.