WoW

Oblivious Films has returned with, appropriately enough, another episode of The Grind Returns -- this time, featuring a nemesis every World of Warcraft player who has been playing for any length of time is well acquainted with.

While I've been working on leveling my alts, my main focus has been on raiding normal and heroic modes in Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry. Due to the luck of the drop, I've gotten my hands on two Blackrock Foundry one handers, and so I've been raiding as Single-Minded Fury. My quick and dirty take on the sub-spec is as follows.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim already has plenty of dragons, so why would one more be a problem? Well, if that extra dragon happens to be Deathwing, we can see a few problems cropping up.

Running Azeroth probably won't make your workout any easier, but it may make it a bit more entertaining.

Brann Bronzebeard screams as he flees from Ulduar, barely evading Kologarn's eye-lasers. This was our first glimpse of what patch 3.1 had in store for us. It would go down as one of WoW's all-time best.

Our anonymous submitter was so entranced by her new S.E.L.F.I.E. camera that she managed to miss this boss pull in Blackrock Foundry. Was it an innocent mistake caused by too much excitement at a new toy, or a passive-aggressive way to let an LFR group know how much disdain she has for them?

A small round of hotfixes were just released, including adjustments to two trinkets -- Auto-Repairing Autoclave and Elementalist's Shielding Talisman. Both now have 33% more spirit.

I don’t know about you, but for me the transition from Highmaul to Blackrock Foundry has been a welcome one. Highmaul wasn’t a terrible instance, but it also wasn’t a particularly good one either. Not a single encounter stood out at me, bouncing up and down in a desperate plea for love and attention. Kargath, The Butcher, Brackenspore, and Twin Ogron were little more than stand-and-burn fights for melee classes with minor complications tacked on to make them feel not so “phoned in.” Ko’ragh was outright hostile to melee...

And with a single tweet, BlizzCon 2015 has been announced. This year's con will run November 6 - 7. 2015 and tickets will be on sale two days: April 15th and 18th. Other than that, no other details have been announced.

And then we call them "trash" and mow them down en route to the real boss. We are truly the monsters of Azeroth.