Elizabeth Harper

I hope you're ready for patch news, because just a few days after launching WoW patch 12.0.7, Blizzard announced WoW patch 12.1, which is already live on the PTR.

Why did we come have to come back here? Didn’t we do enough of these otherworldly invasions during Legion? That we now have to come back and do them again, just fighting the Void instead of the Burning Legion?

Apparently not, because now we’re teleporting off to Void “showdowns” in those same places, but at least this one is cool (as in temperature) and will give us a break from the Midsummer Fire Festival (starting this weekend). But still, I could have skipped this. (But I won’t, because there’s new transmog.)

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This week's World of Warcraft maintenance is a quick one for many players, but a patch is rolling out for Midnight servers that will keep the realms offline all day.

With their ship missing and a cheerful reality TV show host narrating their every move, our mercenary crew's simple mission — retrieve a lost pet — has gotten a lot more complicated.

Last week may have been the calm before (and after) the storm, without much in the way of news: but this week, there's activity everywhere.

It’s been a busy week of games, so this week should really be dedicated to sleeping things off. Or at least a nice piece of cake. As a treat. The week hasn’t been like that at all, but it should have been.

Many weeks are marred by a disappointing number of naps (and disappointing lack of cake).

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Our crew of mercenaries has an unusual mission: to rescue some kind of space kitten, whose owner is very concerned for its wellbeing.

It's a glorious Tuesday, because all World of Warcraft servers are scheduled for a simple one-hour maintenance today, and I'm just hoping I didn't jinx it by typing that.

We've very nearly survived another summer gaming showcase season — there's one more showcase today, and then we're in the clear for another year.

What a time to be a gamer. We live in a golden age of video gaming, in which there is a constant deluge of new, great, innovative titles everywhere — and this week in particular is jam-packed with indie game showcases highlighting the weird and the wonderful (and the weird). Of course we also live in an age of big-budget live service games packed with must-have microtransactions, so maybe on the whole it balances out.

But I’m trying to focus on the positive here, which is the many new games hitting my Steam wishlist.

(Is that a positive? Hm.)

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I make my best attempt to answer your gaming questions. Let’s get to it.