Christian Thoma

It's been almost two months since I asked whether you go back to farm old content in World of Warcraft or other games, and I've spent a lot of time during those intervening weeks looking for mounts.

This isn't the first time we've featured Red Pandas in this column, but the Greensboro Science Center (my local zoo/aquarium/all-around awesome place) announced this week that their resident red pandas gave birth earlier this month and I feel like we have no choice but to show off how cute Ravi is.

Shadowlands Season 4 is starting in just over a month, and there are some interesting "experiments" the World of Warcraft development team is planning with it whose influence will inevitably come into play for Dragonflight.

The World of Warcraft team announced today that Shadowlands Season 3 would end the night prior to the first weekly maintenance in August (August 1 at 10:00 p.m.

Since the very first release of World of Warcraft you've been able to acquire the game in a special Collector's Edition box, and for every expansion since -- as well as on the 15th Anniversary -- players can add a box of physical goodies to their shelf. Dragonflight, of course, continues this tradition with the standard art book and mousepad, as well as the more recent common inclusion of pins (which seems to be the go-to replacement for the late, lamented expansion soundtrack CD).

Blizzard is planning to acquire the Boston-based Proletariat Inc.

Dragonflight opened up for preorders this week, and the latest World of Warcraft expansion will continue the trend of previous expansions and offer a physical Collector's Edition as well.

While I wait for the arrival of Dragonflight later this year I've started farming mounts from older expansions that I hadn't gotten around to before.

I was on the Atlantic coast a couple weeks back, and I like to explore the various environments that I don't normally get a chance to see near my central piedmont home.

I love demos, and Steam's Next Fest event through Monday has got me covered in spades, with hundreds of demos to try out.