Elizabeth Harper

Congratulate yourself, because you’ve made it half-way through a challenging post-holiday week. It is the first Wednesday of the year (my dudes), so hang in there and we can all make it through the weekend together.

But for now, this is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we can all hang out and chat instead of doing anything productive. Let’s get to it.

It's another speedy WoW maintenance this week, as all World of Warcraft servers scheduled to be offline for an hour this morning.

It's been a quiet week at Blizzard Watch HQ as the winter holidays wind down and we work on winding up to face another long year.

It’s nearly the new year, which means it’s packed with all of the stress of family events, “new year, new you” expectations, and all of those pesky chores with end of year deadlines that have all crash-landed on the last day of the year. Happy December 31, here’s your end of year anxiety, checking in!

But persevering through another year is still something to celebrate, so let’s get started with some questions, some sort-of-resolutions, and maybe wrap it all up by going to play some video games. I’ve put on my most festive hat to celebrate, and I think you should too.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column (or an excuse to hang out and chat). Let’s get to some questions.

It's the holiday season in Hearthstone, and this week's New Year Bash Tavern Brawl is all about celebrating.

This week's World of Warcraft maintenance should be another short one, because no one wants to put in too many hours of work on a holiday week (not even the poor admins in charge of rebooting the realms just before New Year's).

It's a valid question for our group of little old lady detectives, who have learned more than they expected about the strange history of their little town on a casual visit to the Brindlewood Bay Whaling Museum...

It's been a quiet one here at Blizzard Watch HQ, and so I have scant news to report for the week.

I wasn’t trying to get a level 80 Warrior, it just kind of happened. I thought I would get in my Timewalking dungeons on a level 71 Warrior, and before I knew it I was level 80. I’m now the kind of person with a single max level Warrior, a completely normal thing to be. Right? Right. No one here would think that would be weird at all.

This is the Queue, our daily chit-chat Q&A column. Let’s see what’s going on.

We're being given the gift of a (hopefully) short WoW maintenance for the holidays, so be merry!