Phil Xavier

With WoW Forever entering the discussion, people have started calling Retail WoW “Modern WoW” now. The questions, then, become: will you play Modern WoW forever? Is WoW Forever modern enough for you?

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we ponder our orbs and try to create future plans on the spot while the Old Gods laugh.

With the upcoming expansion, Reign of the Black Empire, Hearthstone is adding a new feature to the game: an expanded Journal that integrates story, quests, and rewards (in addition to the features that were already there).

It’s been a hectic week for me. So many games to play, so little time to play them! But, at last, the weekend has arrived.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we feel like a draenei runner delivering stolen black market crystals to an underground crime gang. It’s just the way things are sometimes.

We have another super old Tavern Brawl returning in Hearthstone this week: A Dark Recipe gives players pre-made decks that summon the power of the Old Gods — at least, the way they did about 10 years ago.

The Inky Black Potion is magnificent. You can make space look like actual space. You can imagine that your character is staring into the vast darkness and pondering their insignificance before it all. (My headcanon is that every Draenei does that every once in a while.)

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where there’s a spacecraft blocking out the sky, and there’s nowhere to hide. You run to the back and you cover your ears, but it’s the loudest sound you’ve ever heard, and all we trapped, rag-doll, cloth people, we are helpless to resist into our darkest hour.

A very old Hearthstone Tavern Brawl has returned once again, and because of its ruleset, this one really shows its age.

Is anyone else still voraciously consuming BlizzCon 2026 content? Watching missed panels, reactions and thoughts by content creators, analysis and predictions, etc.?

No? Just me? Great.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we ponder just how much time we’ll end up investing in WoW: Forever while daydreaming about Hearthstone Monks — and answering your questions.

During BlizzCon 2026, the Diablo 4 developers confirmed that development on the game will continue beyond the upcoming Season 15, Season of Hell’s Legacy, with future seasons — plural — already planned.

BlizzCon 2026 has a ton of Hearthstone news, and Battlegrounds was not left behind: a new minion type, Aberrations, will be introduced to the game with Patch 36.6.1, releasing on September 22.

We're finally getting the Monk class in Hearthstone, in March 2027.