Matthew Rossi

The folks over at Wowhead have found a neat new wrinkle in Operation: Mechagon, the new megadungeon coming in patch 8.2, and it's fascinating.

I've been slamming my head against the WoW Classic beta for a while now, scraping those levels and otherwise doing my level best to see as much of the story as possible.

We talk a lot about all the things WoW Classic doesn't have.

I'm taking it slow and only really playing Diablo 3 Season 17 when both my wife and I can play together, so we're at about Paragon 220 or so and bulldozing Torment 11 or 12, depending on how we feel that day.

With WoW Classic dominating everything lately -- here's where I hysterically shout it's coming out in August aaaargh -- it's an interesting bit of serendipity that Justin and Sydnee McElroy's podcast Sawbones touched on the Corrupted Blood plague recently.

We talked about it a little when we discussed trinkets in WoW Classic, but some players really want to know how speed up that mount they're going to pick up at level 40.

There's a lot to parse through in this VentureBeat interview with J.

Ah, WoW Classic. The beta test that reminds you of just how much fun it is to die three times in a hole in the ground because you’re surrounded by angry bears. Having finally finished with the cave of a million angry bear people, I’m now running from the Wetlands to Ironforge because I’m just that kind of dumb.

Update — I died a lot, but I made it to Ironforge and took the tram to Stormwind from there. Having now trained 2h swords, I’m broke, and transmog doesn’t exist so I won’t look good for a while now. Still, I felt it was important to be repeatedly savaged by crocolisks in order to spend all the silver I had on two handed sword training.

Classic, you really are just the worst. And yet I can’t stop playing you.

So we just got the most recent StarCraft patch, 4.9.0 and its new co-op commander, Egon Stetmann and his mecha-zerg.

If you haven't actually gotten to play on the WoW Classic beta, you've still gotten to see other people's reactions and probably have watched a few people stream it.