Elizabeth Harper

Diablo 4 Season 1 has begun, and with it comes the game's first Battle Pass system, with a free version that will help you unlock Season Blessings to give you unique buffs throughout the season and a paid version that offers two cosmetic armor sets, a variety of cosmetic weapons, new emotes, and platinum (which can be used to purchase more cosmetics).

Diablo 4 will be have a seasonal content rotation similar to Diablo 3's, and the game's first Season I now live, so you can jump right into Season of the Malignant!

What day is it? What time is it? The week is only beginning and I’m already at a loss.

So we may as well go ahead and Queue.

Happy Friday, everyone!

No, really, ask some questions. Obviously right now I’m asking for questions for Cory on Monday, but if you could remember to ask questions for me next week I would be very happy.

Let’s Queue.

I’m not sure whether Matt or I were the most cynical team members reacting to this week’s Overwatch anime, but you should probably ask him next week to see for yourself. For better or worse, to know what I’m talking about you’ll have to read to the end, because I will attempt to answer a few less fraught questions first.

I usually write these way too late at night, because I know if I leave it to the morning I won’t get it done on time. But that means I regularly write the Queue at 3am, when I would rather be sleeping. And, yeah, I would rather be sleeping right now, but I’m here and you’re here (in spirit?), so let’s Queue.

It’s nice to have a skeleton army, a nice protective cordon of spirit and bone surrounding you and protecting you from the dangers of the world. That’s basically what necromancy is all about: raising the dead to be your friends and also sometimes guarding you from giant snakes.

Let’s do this, Queue.

Blizzard is continuing its ambitious plan of content releases with patch 10.1.5, which is due out on July 11 Even though this is an x.5 patch, it's a hefty one, featuring a new mega-dungeon, the new Augmentation Evoker specialization, a dragon daycare, the Kalimdor Grand Prix, and a whole lot more.

It's been 10 days since the game launched, but most of us here at Team Blizzard Watch are still pretty hyped about Diablo 4. But before we get into our new favorite game, let's look at what's happened over the past week in Blizzard news as well as what's coming soon.