Cory Taylor

A few weeks ago, I wrote that the Winter freeze had broken and Spring was here. There was a whole week of temperatures above freezing!

Oh boy, I should not have said that.

Arthas must’ve heard me and taken it personally. We got more cold, more snow, and then when that second round of snow went away — we got even more this weekend! There was 25 cm! Close to 10 inches for you non-metric people. Maybe next week spring can start.

While I invest in warm socks again, it’s time for — The Queue!

Isn’t this a great bear?

Surely Blizzard wouldn’t do something silly like introduce such a great bear, only to have players kill it. Then follow that up by telling players it was doubly dead and could never rejoin the cycle of rebirth that other natural things got in a whole expansion focused around the afterlife and letting several things get that treatment. That would be crazy.

While I take a big drink of my water, it’s time for — The Queue!

Hey! It’s St. Patrick’s Day today, so I hope you’re using a green transmog. Luckily as a Druid I have no shortage of green things to wear. Not that anyone would dare to pinch a bear for not wearing green.

I guess I’m immune!

While I go put on every color other than green, it’s time for — The Queue!

Sometimes you just need to look at a picture of three murloc gangsters escaping from a bad situation on a motorcycle.

I have no more context for you. Hearthstone has always been the best for taking all of the best parts of Warcraft’s sandbox and making it into something special and more than the sum of its parts. Which could be ascribing too much to someone’s job that day to paint a trio of Murloc smugglers running away from a bad scene. Who knows! All I know is that I like it.

While I wonder what my life would be like as a smuggler, it’s time for — The Queue!

Last week I was excited for spring, and this week the temperatures have been wonderful! We’ve gotten into the above-freezing area a few times and it has felt so nice.

However, as a Canadian who lives where I do, I know that a second or third winter can always be lurking around the corner. I’m just hoping that Arthas is too busy with his upcoming trip to Warcraft Rumble to freeze everything around me again.

While I optimistically break out the Hawaiian shirts, it’s time for — The Queue!

We’re getting so close to spring y’all! By this time next week, we might even have temperatures above freezing again! It’s been a long cold start to February for us here in Canada, but we’re almost through it — and I, for one, cannot wait.

While I go scrape the ice off of my car yet again, it’s time for — The Queue!

I guess something good happened for some combination of eagles and/or owls? I don’t pretend to understand what’s going on, all I know is that Seal was a literal seal and sang about Mountain Dew. I have no strong feelings about this other than wondering what took us as a society this long to make that happen.

While I suggest some subsequent stuff Senor Seal seal should sell us (seashores?), it’s time for — The Queue!

It’s hard to believe, but Blizzard Watch turns ten years old — this very day!

That’s like at least three Warcraft expansions, maybe even four!

Along the way, we’ve been to BlizzCon, covered games developed by Blizzard, and branched out into other spheres and mediums. I think it’s likely that we’ve had millions of words added into our little slice of the gaming and nerd worlds, and almost twenty thousand articles (if the number I’m looking at in the back end is right). We’ve seen faces come and go, and friends come and go, even the owners have changed!  But along the way, we’ve always stuck close to our principles of covering the things in the gaming and geek spheres that we’ve been passionate about.

So I’d like to propose a toast, of whatever your favorite beverage of choice is — here’s to all of you fine folks reading this who’ve contributed to making this a great place to be nerdy together. We wouldn’t be here without you, and I know I’m speaking for all of the other writers here and that we’re very thankful you are.

So without further ado, day one of the next ten years! Let’s Queue!