Phil Xavier

This is Bubbles. (The one standing next to her is some weird fish mage whose name doesn’t matter right now.)

Bubbles took a sabbatical for a couple years, but she’s back to fulfill her job of lobbing balls of water at fools with deadly force to help her master. Dutiful and unquestioning. Water Elementals are known for harmoniously agreeing with those who summoned them, rather than entering nebulous “contracts” or being employed against their wills (which usually leads to constantly plotting revenge, and that’s antithetical to good water flow).

We’re in The Queue, a daily Q&A column that delivers answers to questions day after day, with consistency and a dash of spunk.

This week, we have a brand-new Hearthstone Tavern Brawl, and it's a pretty fun one.

Seriously. What a week. And it’s actually Friday, so I get to say this without having some funny person tell me “Red, it’s Wednesday” or whatever.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where sometimes things are just moving too fast and we’re exhausted, man.

A new season is about to start for Hearthstone Battlegrounds: Cataclysm Calls will be here April 14, and it promises to shake things up a little more than usual with two new keywords, Fodder for Demons, and Chromadrake for Dragons.

It’s almost Noblegarden, the annual holiday where the Great Goblin in the Noble Garden puts on his bunny costume, finds a nice spot to crouch down, [REDACTED], and we get a lot of chocolate eggs. Nature on Azeroth is beautiful.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where all the lore is made up, and the points don’t matter. But the questions do matter, so let’s get to them!

We've got ourselves a brand-new Hearthstone Tavern Brawl this week!

I take a lot of screenshots, no matter which game I’m playing, and WoW is, of course, no exception. I have an excessive amount of screenshots of various games saved on my drives. I guess taking cool screenshots is the main reason I do transmog.

It’s even better when weird stuff like graphical glitches happen (even if they’re minor, like your transmog showing both your 2H and dual wielding weapons at the same time). That’s the kind of stuff that’s fun to post about the moment it happens, and also fun to remember later.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we encourage everyone to make their toons look good and find the perfect angle.

One of the simplest, most classic variations of Tavern Brawl Hearthstone has ever seen is back this week.

Yes, I know WoW has a new expansion and everyone is excited about it. Xal’atath is great, yadda yadda. Did you know that the Cataclysm expansion has just been released as well?! (For Hearthstone.)

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we play other Blizzard games too! (But we also play a lot of WoW, and we are super excited about it as well, so you’ll get that too, of course.)

Let’s open with a Hearthstone question.

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