WoW

This week's been full of exciting Shadowlands news, not the least of which was about Heirloom gear and how Blizzard is planning on changing them to be beneficial in the upcoming leveling system.

My wife has mained a Hunter since 2004, when she was in the World of Warcraft beta test, so I first realized something was up with Hunters and their pets when I walked into our bedroom and she said TAMEABLE SNAKES -- and yes, she said it in all caps and italicized.

The Gallywix community was a large organization of people who would carry players through high-level dungeon runs, raids, and PVP in exchange for Warcraft gold.

When you hit level 60 in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, you will likely be spending a great deal of your time following one of the four Covenants -- doing the storyline quests, leveling up your reputation with them, and so on.

We all knew that Blizzard was going to do something to heirlooms when the level squish and leveling changes came in Shadowlands, the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion.

Taelia Fordragon is one of the most compelling characters that was introduced in Battle for Azeroth.

Each World of Warcraft expansion as of late has given us a main NPC or two who guides us along the way -- someone who has a connection to the place we're going.

In the past week or so, we've gotten a lot more information on how Shadowlands' new-and-improved weekly rewards system will work.

Hearthstone is just about to release their second expansion of 2020 with Scholomance Academy, which brings the trappings of higher learning -- or at least the North American, pop-culture version of higher learning -- into the silly card-based take on the Warcraft universe.

Blizzard loves pop culture references, whether it's a character quoting a line from a movie, a song title as the name of a quest, or a character name as a play on obvious real name.