Christian Thoma

2024 keeps chugging ahead and we're already more than a quarter of the year through.

I picked up the very chill game Spirit City: Lofi Sessions this week and I’ve been enjoying having it in the background while I play World of Warcraft and write articles for BlizzardWatch. It’s good to relax, especially since the rest of this month is giving us:

• New Hearthstone Battlegrounds season on April 16
• World of Warcraft Season 4 on April 23
• Cataclysm Classic pre-patch on April 30
• Patch 10.2.7 PTR Soon™
• The War Within Alpha Soon-ish Maybe?

And that doesn’t even include Tales of Kenzera: ZAU releasing on April 23 and Taylor Swift’s new album Tortured Poets Department arriving on April 19.

So while I try to figure out how to double the length of days so I have time for all of this, let’s answer some questions.

2024 is shaping up to be a solid year for the literature-inclined fans of Blizzard games, with World of Warcraft and Diablo 4 both getting new books.

World of Warcraft's next Classic expansion will be Cataclysm Classic, launching on May 20, 2024.

I was originally going to write this a few weeks ago, but since I only needed three more quests to spawn to complete A World Awoken Dragonflight meta-achievement I felt like it would be bragging.

It's probably unfair to say Plunderstorm is a ripoff of Fortnite -- unfair to Fortnite, that is.

I'm not sure anyone predicted "Warcraft Battle Royale with spells" when patch 10.2.6 mysteriously appeared as a simple pirate flag on the 2024 road map, but that's pretty much what Plunderstorm is.

Look, it had been a long day of running Mythic dungeons to complete the Taivan meta and I was tired. I was about to hit the final one I needed and decided to take a break while we recruited people. The fact I could summon via the summoning stone without getting up was a surprise but a welcome one and I took full advantage of it.

Speaking of Taivan it appears that RNG is against me and a couple of the quests I need to complete it won’t be up until next reset at the earliest. Since he’s a good boy, though, I’m sure he’ll patiently wait for me.

While I figure out how to attach rockets to Taivan to make him a flying mount too, let’s answer some questions!

In today's Overwatch 2 developer update it was revealed that starting in Season 10 all new Heroes will become available immediately upon introduction, and all existing Heroes will also be unlocked for all players if they hadn't earned them in past Seasons.

Dragonflight patch 10.2.6 did not arrive this week despite the eight-hour downtime yesterday, which means next week is a prime candidate for its arrival. Which wouldn’t normally be a problem, except this is the list of everything else happening in the video game world next week:

• Hearthstone is releasing their next expansion Whizbang’s Workshop
• Hi-Fi Rush and Rise of the Ronin are arriving on the PS5
• Princess Peach: Showtime! is arriving for the Nintendo Switch
• Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition is releasing for PC
• Alone in the Dark and Dragon’s Dogma 2 are coming out on all next-gen platforms (sorry, Switch owners) and PC
• And for sports fans it’s time for MLB The Show ’24 on all consoles

That’s an insane number of major titles to come out in the same week, especially in March. Perhaps everyone is afraid to release against South Park: Snow Day the following week?

While I ponder whether these game releases are the true March Madness, let’s answer some questions!