Matthew Rossi

So, I watched the cinematic like a million freaking times.

Can it be Summer 2016 yet?

Okay, let’s do The Queue. Questions?

If you have, like I have, lamented the way dungeons become irrelevant to players then the way Legion changes the Challenge Mode experience might really speak to you.

At BlizzCon 2015's Legion panel, Ion Hazzikostas revealed that the expansion will now have a much more open world feel, with zones scaling to match the level of the player.

Well, a lot of people have been asking me do you think HoTS should have a mode like Tavern Brawl in Hearthstone, in the Queue, on Twitter, and now I can say they went one better because we've got Heroes of the Storm Arena, an entirely new game mode.

You've been waiting for them forever, and at this year's BlizzCon we finally got to see the new Moonkin model, designed as part of the Legion zone Val'Sharah.

If Tavern Brawls aren't enough of a game changer for your Hearthstone experience, then the League of Explorers adventure is for you.

Watching the Legion systems presentation by Ion Hazzikostas, I'm struck by a simple realization: the new outdoor endgame system for Legion is essentially the Diablo 3 bounty system merged with the Garrison Follower mission table, if you were the one doing those missions instead of your followers.

Okay, the cinematic is out and it's moved the story.

During the Opening Ceremonies Mike Morhaime announced that there's a new Make a Wish Foundation pet coming this December 2nd.

I was going to talk about BlizzCon but then this happened.

Welcome Dakotaraptor, a contender for largest Dromaeosaurid ever. Not only is it nearly the same size as Utahraptor (it’s built on a more gracile body plan, so it almost certainly weighed less) but this late Cretaceous raptor is a game changer for a variety of reasons. It’s much akin to its relatives Velociraptor or Deinonychus but scaled up to bigger than even Jurassic Park dared dream, and it had long feathers on its forelimbs in a structure that even the most anti-feathered dinosaur grump would have to admit is a wing.

Wings. This nearly twenty foot (six meters) long raptor had wings. No, it couldn’t fly with them any more than an ostrich can, but it had clear, unmistakably feathered forelimbs. At this point, if you put featherless raptors in your dinosaur movie, you look like an idiot. It would be like having hairless lions and tigers in your movie because they look cooler. Just stop it, Hollywood.