Phil Xavier

The current Hearthstone Battlegrounds metagame — that is, which minions and heroes people are picking to win at the moment — is fast and furious, since this season doesn't have any extra features (such as Quests, Trinkets, or Buddies) to work as catch-up mechanics.

Fairies are cool. They’re smol, helpful, and often sassy. They’re full of vigor and usually have a good moral sense. They like to have fun and play tricks, but not to the point where the jokes become harmful or dangerous (usually).

This is The Queue, where we talk about fairies, but also about Blizzard games, other games, and all the outlandish things that make our wings flutter and whisk us wherever the trail of pixie dust will lead.

For its next miniset, Hearthstone is getting a crossover with StarCraft!

I like ninjas, I’ve written about that before. Ninjas that set fans on fire before tossing them on fools (and look great while doing it)? Sign me the heck up!

This is The Queue, your daily column for good boys and girls to ask questions, and have other boys and girls of compatible morality answer them. Let’s rock!

I was pretty annoyed when Blizzard removed the permanent Water Elemental from Frost Mages.

Taken from us way too soon. My hunter kneels before the body of her beloved bird and sobs uncontrollably, for forces unseen have just murdered him. His name was Pick. He was eleven years old, almost twelve.

But alas, the powers-that-be have decided that she can never be with him again. Unless, that is, she’s willing to give up the way of the marksman — which has been her craft for her whole life as an adventurer, part of her very identity — and find a new, completely different way of life, either mastering all the beasts — not just her Pick! — or surrendering her Dark Iron Rifle and taking up the spear, something which she has never done before.

Hi, this is The Queue. Can’t wait for patch 11.1!

The Warband system, which released with The War Within, had a lot of potential for expansion with new features from the get-go.

Lately, I've been naming — and sometimes modeling — some of my World of Warcraft characters after existing characters from other games.

Blizzard just announced that in the upcoming World of Warcraft patch 11.1, Undermine(d), Marksmanship Hunters will lose access to Hunter pets.

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