WoW

While we've been through the pre-expansion doldrums many times before, but the last few months of Dragonflight saw some new experiments hit the live servers.

With the Warbound gear finally starting to flow in World of Warcraft thanks to major buffs to the Radiant Echoes event, the next thing on many players' minds will be upgrading that gear.

The War Within pre-expansion event, Radiant Echoes, is live through August 26, leaving the heroes of Azeroth (that's us) several weeks to contend with the planet's memories of the last 19 years of World of Warcraft.

With all of the class changes in the pre-patch, it might be time to play something new.

One of the new accessibility features released ahead of World of Warcraft's upcoming expansion, The War Within, is an arachnophobia mode that turns WoW enemies utilizing the spider NPC model into either the traditional crab model or the lobstrok models.

For the next three days -- August 1 through August 5 -- anybody can play WoW for free.

With the August 26 launch date of The War Within right around the corner -- The Radiant Echoes pre-expansion event has gone live!

No, seriously: over the past few months we've seen a lot of people wondering who the heck this elf lady is — people don't seem to recognize her as Alleria Windrunner.

Every expansion in World of Warcraft brings with it tasty new Cooking recipes, from recipes so good they became actual real-life recipes to the nearly-inedible foods of Shadowlands (I guess Brokers didn't know that most of us don't like Pickled Meat Smoothies and Butterscotch Marinated Ribs). The War Within also includes a large variety of new foods (including food that lasts through death!), many of which have a fun twist on the fact that you're spending a lot of time in cave systems.

The end of WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria is extremely nigh: August 19th is just around the corner, after all.