Phil Xavier

I’m going on a vacation trip soon and I hope I get isekai’d into some videogame world. Some of those locations you see in games look so realistic that one might think they could actually exist in real life!

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where sometimes we wonder what it would be like to visit Azeroth, or Hyrule, or Planet Zebes, and then we decide to play some Assassin’s Creed. (I wish Florence was real.)

The Reign of the Black Empire expansion has just been released for Hearthstone, and as is tradition, the Recipe Tavern Brawl is here on the first week, to let players get a taste of the new cards and mechanics for each class.

As expected from their recent teasers on social media, the new Hearthstone expansion will take us back to cosmos-spanning adventures: Reign of the Black Empire brings the Old Gods back to Hearthstone — again — but this time, things seem more serious.

The Black Empire is coming. Again. There’s an enormous multi-tentacled creature blotting out the sun, and he comes to bring you love. Or death, I dunno.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where the only question that truly matters is: who is the best Old God?

Hearthstone is getting its next expansion, Reign of the Black Empire, next week, on October 20, and as usual the pre-release Hearthstone Tavern Brawl arrives just before launch day.

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.