If you're playing Diablo 4's Season of Blood, you've no doubt noticed that your 22 new vampiric powers have requirements to power them -- shown simply as symbols -- called Vampiric Pacts.

Halloween is probably my favorite holiday, but as it comes closer, I am quickly hitting an IRL breakpoint. We did take an amazing vacation over fall break a few weeks ago to ride the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad, but as we came home, we started looking through the calendar to see what we had coming up. Not even counting recurring things like my daughter’s Saturday art class, that was the last free weekend I’m going to have until literally late January.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we’ll answer just as soon as we find a free minute. Currently busy staring into the void, dissociating. You get it.

I'll open by stating that Sire Denathrius had the potential to be an extremely relevant antagonist in World of Warcraft, far beyond just the limited influence he had in the Shadowlands.

Druids may not be getting a new legendary in World of Warcraft patch 10.2, but Druids will be getting some fantastic new shapeshift forms.

It was my birthday! My excellent, wonderful, and extremely special ladyfriend took me out to play arcade games and also to go see a local theater production of Little Shop of Horrors. So y’know it ranks up there in the top three birthdays for sure!

I never knew how different the ending of the stage version was from the movie with Rick Moranis! I gotta say though, there’s something really special about seeing a puppeted plant eat people on stage. That right here is what live theater is about I think — taking something like a man-eating alien plant that can sing and making it feel real for a minute. It didn’t hurt either that the voice actor for the plant absolutely nailed the swings from whiny hungry teenager to an alien menace.

While I keep an extra close eye on all of my plants, it’s time for — The Queue!

Blizzard's next mobile game Warcraft Rumble has been soft-launched in a few countries around the world for a little while now, and having some expert tips in your pocket might help you as you're getting started in the game. I've been lucky enough to live in Canada so I've been playing for about a month now and have learned a few things that may help you in your quest to be the best Rumble-r around when the game officially launches to all eligible Android and iOS devices November 3.

Games can sometimes affect us and mess with our emotions, in both positive and negative ways -- and among the latter, there are some moments that make us question what we're witnessing, or even doing ourselves.

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BlizzCon is returning in 2023 on November 3-4 and if you were still hoping to attend BlizzCon 2023, the last round of BlizzCon ticket sales is still happening.

Join us as we discuss our hopes and fears about the future of Blizzard games now that the Microsoft/ActiBlizzard merger is a go, the new wild-west themed Showdown in the Badlands Hearthstone expansion, all the wonderfully druid-centric features in WoW’s upcoming patch 10.2, and how Diablo 4’s new Season 2 is much more engaging than the disappointing Season 1 content.