Will the D&D 2024 Player’s Handbook work with my old D&D books?
The latest edition of Dungeons & Dragons, which will officially launch with the release of the 2024 Players Handbook in September, has been advertised as "backwards compatible" with earlier D&D 5e books, but what does that mean?
The Queue: Today’s my day!
Friday is always a surprise, showing up without warning. But let’s put on our sunglasses and face the day. Let’s Queue.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: Is Diablo 4 Season 5 worth playing?
Join us as we discuss how the new features coming with Diablo 4 Season 5 don’t make a compelling argument to play it on a Seasonal realm over an Eternal realm, the bad luck protection with WoW’s Midsummer Fire Festival rare drops, and when we think The War Within prematch will drop this summer.
What you need to know about backgrounds in D&D 2024
With the recent, huge flurry of information released about Dungeons and Dragons 2024, it can be hard to take everything in.
Dive into these new July rewards at the WoW Trading Post
This July the World of Warcraft Trading Post has new treasures geared for people who want to dive into the deep blue sea.
WoW (and Blizzard) returns to China, and the details are kind of wild
Back in November 2022, talks broke down between Blizzard and their publishing partner in China, Netease, leading to all of Blizzard's active services being suspended in the country as of January 2023.
Now live! Guild Wars 2 beta weekend focuses on testing spears (and all of the new combat abilities that come with them)
This weekend Guild Wars 2 is beta testing the upcoming Janthir Wilds expansion, focusing on the new spear weapon type (now available for land-based combat) and its abilities across all professions.
The Queue: I keep realizing I play a lot of very violent video games
I mean, I’ve played every Diablo game. I’ve played Grim Dawn, Wolcen, and Path of Exile. I’ve played Cyberpunk 2077 and I’ve literally used a gun that fires explosive grenades to slaughter an entire gang from up close. My character in Baldur’s Gate 3 is literally an amnesiac murder hobo who spends most of her game time completely covered in blood. Other people’s. That I have liberated from their bodies with big, pointy things. I’ve torn people’s limbs off, thrown people’s heads, flown away as the entire planet Taris was bombarded from orbit and millions died.
What are you hoping to see at the 2024 Steam Summer Sale?
It's Steam Summer Sale time again!
How Weapon Mastery works in D&D, featured in the 2024 Player’s Handbook
Weapon Mastery is a new class feature in the 2024 Player's Handbook for Dungeons & Dragons that gives Simple and Martial weapons specific properties that can used in combat by martial classes.



