Phil Xavier

Once again, it's a new Hearthstone expansion, Cataclysm, and we get a new "recipe" Brawl.

Year of the Scarab is now live in Hearthstone with the launch of the Cataclysm expansion, which starts things out with a real bang.

Would you believe it’s already Friday the 13th again!? It was Friday the 13th just a month ago! I admit that I hadn’t had enough time to recharge my spook batteries yet! So this is gonna be a considerably less spooky affair than last time.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where the witches are tired, man. They’re sleeping. Do witches sleep? I think witches sleep, but I’m honestly not sure.

A new Hearthstone expansion looms in the horizon: Cataclysm is launching on March 17, and as is tradition, we're getting a pre-release Tavern Brawl where we can open packs in advance and test out those new cards.

“Knight to C3,” commanded Peggy Sparklewrench. The gnome was determined to beat Medivh this time.

Medivh cheated. The black Knight burst into flames.

Having lost the game, Peggy said “screw this” and headed to the hot tub that had been set up on the Nightbane balcony, to take a dip with her new friends (a murloc, a cow, and Reno Jackson).

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where stories sometimes have exciting beginnings but predictable endings.

We've all known, since it first appeared as decoration in the Undermine zone, that this Shu'halo Perspective painting (an original Moocasso!) is the greatest piece of art that's ever been created in World of Warcraft.

Today's Hearthstone Tavern Brawl lets you make a finely curated deck of only a few cards and almost guarantee you'll get the cards you need on each turn.

Looking at the new Silvermoon, and Eversong Woods in general is, in many ways, almost like looking at a “WoW 2.” Or, perhaps, a remastered version of WoW. It’s a bigger, better-looking, improved on nearly every aspect version of the same zones we first saw in Burning Crusade, 19 years ago. Familiar places, locations, NPCs, looking shiny and new and breathtaking.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we have a constant sense of awe finding out how that gate or that tunnel or that spire looks just like it does in our memories, but better.

I decided to hasten my original plans and get a Nintendo Switch 2 now rather than wait until May. I’m now the proud owner of this new console, and I’m ready to… delve into my backlog of Switch 1 games.

Until Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave is launched, at least. Though I did get the new Mario Kart, and I’ve heard good things about Donkey Kong Bonanza. We’ll see how it goes.

Welcome to The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we buy things now just to be safe, we change our plans at a moment’s notice, and in the meantime, we answer questions.

Last time we talked about Hearthstone pets, they cost $158, which we thought was egregiously high.