After over a year of waiting, we're finally just days away from World of Warcraft Player Housing Early Access -- have you planned your first move yet?

The last World of Warcraft Trading Post of the year is upon us and has some cool new mounts, weapon and armor transmogs, and a pet to add to your personal inventory before all hail breaks loose next year.

because it’s my birthday. It’s literally illegal to be mean to me at any other time but it’s ultra illegal to be mean to me today.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions, and if one of those questions is about my age you are definitely going to jail.

The Burning Crusade Classic pre-patch is rolling out January 13, 2026 at 3pm pacific time, following 24 hours of maintenance scheduled to start on January 12 at 3pm pacific time.

This week's WoW maintenance is scheduled for a brief hour this week, and after many weeks of lengthy maintenances, I'm surprised.

It's time to take to the stars in search of interplanetary adventure as Tavern Watch plays Starfinder's newly-released second edition.

Hot on the heels of the Indie Game Awards nominations are the nominations for the 2025 Game Awards.

We have a pretty good idea of where an important chunk of future WoW lore is heading, because the seeds started being planted a few years ago, and they’re still being planted now with Turalyon, Xe’ra, the Mag’har allied race, the Arathi empire, etc. The Light is being set up as an antagonistic force — one that we may or may not face as a direct threat in a future expansion, but I’d say we almost certainly will.

In one of those seeds, we’ve got an account from the Mag’har orcs that the forces of the Light have grown despotic in Alternate Draenor, and this group called the Lightbound, led by High Exarch Yrel, has had them flee that dying world, since they were being forced into a non-choice of submission or death. This made a lot of people suspect that Yrel — a pretty well-liked character overall — is being setup to return to the story in the future no longer as a hero, but as a villain.

I say: Blizzard, leave Yrel alone.

You’ve done the “good guy gone bad” story beat so many times by now. Arthas. Garrosh. Kael’thas. Sylvanas. Heck, even Neltharion into Deathwing, or Illidan flip-flopping between “good” or “bad” depending on your perspective. We get it, you enjoy showing how even heroes can become corrupted or distorted by ideals, by fanaticism, by losing sight of what truly matters, etc.

You’ve told that story. Many times. We get it. We got the message.

You don’t need to tell it yet again with Yrel.

Let Yrel be a force of reason within the Light, the Paladins, lest we start seeing them all as fanatical zealots not worth trusting. Let her be someone who sees how fanatical some of her peers are becoming, and opposes them from within. Let the stories of the Lightbound be over-exaggerated or misunderstood by the Mag’har — just their unreliable account.

Or, just leave her alone. Let her chill on some beach sipping mojitos with Velen or whatever.

#SaveYrel

We're one week farther into 2025 which means we're one week closer to Player Housing, which hits early access on December 2.

Cricket is a sport I know nothing about. I assume it features a ball, and some sort of bat (the wooden stick kind, not the animal, although the latter would surely make for an even more interesting game). I can only imagine it has mind-warping rules, space-bending plays, and the audience watches it with the same vim they would watch fields of wheat that somehow turn into black-and-white birds and fly away.

This is The Queue, where we sometimes provide answers to things we know, and other times to things we’re clueless about (such as cricket). Read on, and don’t stop believing.