Christian Thoma
What do you miss most from in-person BlizzCon events?
Last week the Hearthstone team had a cosplay contest that was a lot of fun with some worthy winners, but what I found interesting was how much it made people miss BlizzCon.
How much of a story do you like in game genres that don’t (necessarily) need one?
Video games have come a long way in the decades since Pong and Pac-man, but one thing they've always tried to do is tell a story.
What new gaming releases are you excited for in 2023?
2022 was a great year for video games, with the Splatoon, God of War, and Horizon series fighting for dollars and gamers' thumbs alongside new entries such as Elden Ring, Cult of the Lamb, and Stray.
What are your 2023 gaming resolutions?
As the year comes to an end, I'm all ready to start 2023 — for to quote Marc Antony: "I have come not to praise 2022 but to bury it".
The best new mounts to collect in Dragonflight
One of the big features of World of Warcraft's latest expansion Dragonflight is the new Dragonriding mechanic which provides an alternative to standard mount usage and gives players the ability to fly almost immediately on the Dragon Isles.
What sort of guidance should World of Warcraft provide to players?
There are a lot of activities a player can participate in at level 70 in Dragonflight — there are soups to make, hunts to finish, dungeons and raids to run; PVP, elemental storms, World Quests and even a handful of daily quests; not even to mention exploring everything that can be done with the new profession system.
What are your favorite side quests in Dragonflight?
One of the joys of Dragonflight is how the quest team has really relaxed the stakes, especially when it comes to side quests.
Dragonflight is scheduled to receive a whopping six patches in 2023
The World of Warcraft development team today unveiled their plans for Dragonflight during 2023 and it is quite ambitious: six content patches, two more seasons of Mythic+ and PVP, two raids, a megadungeon, new heritage armor quest chains, and not one but two updates to holidays.
The Queue: I’m a Birdwatcher
It’s Friday, the race for world first is going (slowly), and the community figured out how to get Quackers the Terrible to spawn so I was able to snap a S.E.L.F.I.E. and earn the “Birdwatcher” title. Having thus completed my one goal for the Dragonflight expansion, it’s time to log out of the game, uninstall it, and answer some questions while my PC reclaims disk space.
What are your thoughts on Dragonriding in Dragonflight?
Dragonflight has been live for just over two weeks now, and I've spent a lot of time learning how to ride a dragon.
