Warcraft

The WoW patch 8.2.5 PTR development notes are live with a list of new stuff that's coming with the update, including the long-anticipated Worgen and Goblin model update.

Mythic Queen Azshara has been defeated.

Warcraft 3: Reforged doesn't have a release date (though the beta is starting soon), but one thing we know for certain is that its collector's edition will come with lots of extra goodies — and not just for Warcraft 3 itself.

Warcraft 3: Reforged hasn't released yet (it's still dated as "end of year"), but by pre-ordering the Spoils of War collector's edition now, you will receive a number of in-game goodies in other Blizzard titles when it does go live.

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.

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.

The Mythic difficulty of Azshara's Eternal Palace has only been open a week, but it's been a very busy week.

As of right now, I see two contradictory paths that patch 8.3 could take.