Warcraft

If you've just watched the latest Shadowlands short — Afterlives: Ardenweald — you may not have realized it yet, but we just witnessed the seeming permanent death of a major lore figure who otherwise may well have returned to life one day.

In the recent "Road to Shadowlands" update, spooky floating eyeball Game Director Ion "Watcher" Hazzikostas discussed some shifts in how players will experience choosing and potentially re-choosing their Covenants.

The way you level alts through the Shadowlands is about to change, giving you more flexibility on how to play subsequent characters.

In a new development update blog released today, titled "The Road to Shadowlands," World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas has shared a roadmap containing several informative tidbits about the upcoming expansion, Shadowlands.

I'm obsessed with the Night Warrior, and I have ever since Tyrande became that particular manifestation of Elune's wrath in Battle for Azeroth, because it highlights how much we don't know about Elune.

For me it's dinosaurs.

The whole Shadowlands idea -- the fact that we're traveling to the land of the dead, seeing new realms we've never seen and exploring whole new concepts that change and grow the Warcraft setting in ways we've never really thought about -- has me looking at that infamous Warcraft cosmology image and wondering about where we could possibly go that we haven't been to yet.

It turns out that people and objects can leave the Shadowlands and make their way back to Azeroth, as seen in the recent Afterlives animated shorts.

Sometimes, amidst the unfortunate events of life, we do get a few nice surprises.

I'm rare in that I've never liked having consumables give the effect of class buffs.