Blizzard Watch Week in Review: Ice cream is serious business

Are you ready for the weekend? So are we, with esports to watch and games to play. But if you’ve fallen behind on the week’s news, don’t worry: you can catch up on all you need to know right here.

Your weekend to-do list

• Don’t miss this weekend’s Auction House Dance Party in WoW! This micro-holiday is Saturday only.
• Diablo 3’s Season 11 has begun! Here’s how to dive in and level your new Seasonal character.
• Every weekend brings more esports: check out HGC and more streaming this weekend.

Blizzard

• After 12 years of writing some of Blizzard’s most memorable music, Russell Brower is leaving the company. We miss him already.

Everything you need to know about lore

• World of Warcraft Chronicle Volume 3 is coming soon!
• Anne takes a look at the similarities between Velen and Kil’jaeden.
• Do you know everything there is to know about Prince Arthas Menethil?

World of Warcraft

• If you’re having trouble keeping up with WoW’s patch 7.3, we don’t blame you. We rounded up all the latest news, with a Mac’Aree quest walkthrough, zone video previews of both Mac’Aree and Krokuun, changes coming to Frost Death Knights, and spoiler-packed datamined voice lines.
• Scott offers 10 progression tips for raiding guilds working their way through the Tomb of Sargeras.

Hearthstone

• Icecrown Citadel is so 2009. We’re over it. But Ice Cream Citadel is the new hotness. Coolness? Somethingness. And we have pictures of the real thing in action.
• If you missed Ben Brode’s recent Reddit AMA, we’ve collected the highlights.
• Hearthstone has jumped straight from the fire festival to the frost festival with new rewards from Ahune. That’s right: it’s the Midsummer Frost Festival.

Overwatch

• Finally! Doomfist will arrive in Overwatch on July 27.
• And if that isn’t enough, we also have a new Overwatch comic featuring everyone’s new favorite character.

Heroes of the Storm

• From teaser to hero: the game’s newest hero will be Garrosh Hellscream. Expect to see him on the PTR next week.
• A new week means a new Heroes of the Storm rotation, but there’s not much happening in the Nexus this week.

That’s all for this week, fellow gamers. Until next time!