Matthew Rossi

I think about this a lot, because I am one of those people who really, truly, deeply hates Nathanos Blightcaller, and while I know I would enjoy watching him be slowly mulched in a wood chipper, I can't think of any other situation where I would like him.

With the release of the patch 2.6.6 PTR for Diablo 3, we didn't just find out about the upcoming Season 18 theme, although we certainly did that too and it's pretty cool.

We now have our first look at Diablo 3 Season 18.

Because giant lizard-cats four meters long with saber teeth are awesome, that's why. Inostrancevia was the largest of the gorgonopsids, a suborder of the theriodonts -- the order that included our own direct ancestors and thus, ultimately, us, and one that really deserves a lot more attention in video games.

Guys, Troodontids are awesome.

I'm not even kidding.

One of the oldest and most preserved paradigms in World of Warcraft is one it inherited from its predecessors like Ultima Online or EverQuest -- the idea of certain classes being good at one of three primary roles. Tanking, or the art of getting the ire of the various monsters in dungeons focused on you instead of the tasty healer in cloth booties; Healing, the aforementioned person in cloth booties who can channel some form of magic to heal the wounds of their fellow adventurers; and DPS, short for damage per second, a metric that tells you how much damage these players are capable of dealing in a second while fighting said monsters.

I said this was going to happen sooner or later.

Okay, first up, let me be clear -- nobody at Disney and nobody at Activision has said that this is in the cards.

When we think of World of Warcraft, one of the main elements of the game that has helped to definite it is that it is, in great part, the story of two factions.