Elizabeth Harper

Today's World of Warcraft maintenance is an extremely unusual eight-hour downtime for all servers — modern, Classic, and Mists of Pandaria Classic.

Here at Blizzard Watch, the staff has been abuzz about Midnight ever since it was announced, but this week we're a little more abuzz because the beta test was just announced — and that brings us one step closer to launch.

But you can’t nap while waiting in the queue, because you might miss it. So let’s get to the questions… we can take the perfect cat nap later.

Tuesday is coming for us with another long World of Warcraft maintenance (for some players).

We're in the midst of a busy PTR season with both WoW and Diablo 4 running test realms right now — though Diablo's is only running for a few more days — which makes this weekend a great time to test out new game features.

I feel like neighborhoods in World of Warcraft have a lot of great plots that I would love to have a house on… but some are maybe greater than others. Do you want a smuggler’s cave just below your property? It’s a feature for some, and a detriment to others.

But there’s a perfect house for everybody somewhere.

This week's Hallow's End-themed Hearthstone Brawl is the Haunted Carousel, which is one we've seen several times before — and still don't like.

It's a weird week for WoW maintenance, with extended downtime for modern and Classic realms, while Mists of Pandaria Classic is the odd one out with only a single hour of maintenance.

Player housing continues to dominate our thoughts and dreams, as the entire Blizzard Watch team jumped onto the PTR to playtest housing as a group.

I don’t know exactly how this happened, but it’s Thursday now, and it’s time for another Queue. How did I get here? Where did I come from? I don’t know, but let’s get to it.