Cory Taylor

Castle Nathria just opened for raiding and we've already got good news for players looking to get their hands on their legendary effects from it -- they seem to be a guaranteed drop.

There are a lot of new mounts in Shadowlands.

I knew bears liked to climb things, but this is ridiculous! How did he even get up there? How will he get down?! How can this be!

While I figure that out, it’s time for — The Queue.

Maldraxxus is a very gross zone full of gross things — and I love it very much. I love every gloopy puddle of ooze, every disgustingly pockmarked hill, the slimes, the skeletons, the things that are both slime *and* skeleton, the cute little blood-sucking beasty that hatched from this hairy egg I found, just everything about it. I especially love the ultra-gross skinning nodes, giant warts. Whoever thought those up is a genius and they probably aren’t being paid enough.

I didn’t think I’d like it that much just hearing about it and poking around on the beta, but it’s grown on me — maybe even literally in some cases. It wasn’t enough to tempt me away from my friends the Venthyr, but it was close! Much closer than I would’ve thought. There hasn’t been a zone this polarizing in a long time, or at least one that I can remember. Just reading a lot of the comments from Friday there are a lot of people who don’t share my love of the gross stuff.

While I go play with the oozes, it’s time for — the Queue.

If you've tried in the first couple of days of Shadowlands to make a group in the group finder for one of the Elite quests only to be inexplicably out of phase with the rest of your group, we have good news!

In preparation for today's launch of Shadowlands, Blizzard got professional prop makers and cosplayers Hench and Scrap Foundry in Australia to make them some of the weapons that players will be collecting this expansion.

Take a peek at Hogger in all of his Gnollish finery from his appearance in Heroes of the Storm!

Hogger -- King of the Riverpaw Gnolls and scourge of low-level Alliance players -- is coming to Heroes of the Storm as their 90th hero!

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Are we there yet?  — Are we there yet?

It's time for another round of "who do we think the next hero to join Heroes of the Storm will be?" This is overdue if anything, especially if Blizzard is still hoping to hit the target of multiple new heroes added this year.