Elizabeth Harper

Diablo 4 patch 2.6 is now live, kicking off Season 12: Season of Slaughter — though technical problems meant that players may have trouble connecting to the game or staying connected to the game for the first few hours.

This week all World of Warcraft servers are scheduled for two hours of downtime this morning, and it seems like a more reasonable time period than last week's optimistic one-hour maintenance, which wound up running for two hours anyway.

Last week, World of Warcraft's Midnight expansion officially launched worldwide, and between playing the game and writing about the game, we've been pretty busy.

I labeled this Queue carefully so I would not forget about it. But I may have created a problem, because Queues like having unique names, and I’m going to run out of headline variations at some point.

Fortunately that’s a problem for future Liz, and present Liz is doing just fine.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where you ask questions, I try to answer them, and we all get to hang out in the comments section.

We’re adding a few new writers to the Blizzard Watch team, as well as an artist to help us with new designs for merch.

A new Diablo novel is coming soon: The Lost Horadrim by Matthew J.

The Midnight expansion just dropped in World of Warcraft, which makes this week's one-hour maintenance seem optimistic to me, but that's why I'm not a game developer.

It's Monday, but it's also Midnight launch day for those that celebrate (which is probably most of us).

I’m still not entirely sure what I’m playing in Midnight, so I hope no one expects me to have a plan for anything else. But a little uncertainty never frightened anyone. We shall march together into the strange future of tomorrow and see where it leads us! Onward! To Midnight!

And if that doesn’t make any sense to you, this is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we do our best to answer your questions (though sometimes we have questions of our own). Let’s get to it.

It's a lightning fast World of Warcraft maintenance this morning, or at least we hope it is.