I took a nice, relaxing weekend in the Smoky Mountains with the partner and some friends, inclusive of a long and at times terrifying hike up one of said mountains. It was awesome! Nature is pretty freaking rad, and the views were incredible. But you know what I couldn’t get out of my head the entire time?

Thorim’s dang “In the mountains…” line. It’s seared into my brain. Forever and ever, permanently associated with anything mountain-related. I am cursed.

Anyhow, this isn’t about that. This is about you.

And The Queue.

Join us this week as we explore the histories of the world trees in WoW, including Teldrassil and Nordrassil.

There's some kind of evil extradimensional entity that makes developers simultaneously create huge, expansive open worlds for players to explore while also including a crafting system to make things.

The next Hearthstone mini-set is Fall of Ulduar, and it's now live with 38 new cards for the Titans expansion, as well as Anomalies for Constructed game modes and Arena!

It’s like I walked into the Queue in my favorite dress to find that Cory was wearing the same one. But I had really awful Doctor stuff this week and I’m not changing my outfit.

It's Pirate's Day in World of Warcraft and your Dragonriding mount is ready to enjoy the festivities with their own special Pirate's Day Armor.

Even the games I love have things that I don't like. World of Warcraft has the interminable class balance problem that it has always had (and probably will always have) magnified by player perception that if a class isn't exactly as good at every aspect of gameplay as everyone else trying to do that aspect -- yes, I'm looking at you, tanking -- that said class is garbage and must never be brought to a dungeon or raid.

I do like getting to fly a spaceship. The freedom to just point at a star and say I wanna go there! Firing deadly laser beams at pirates! Blowing up asteroids for shiny rocks!

Thankfully Starfield has scratched that itch pretty well. I do wish that there was a little more to do out in space in Starfield though. Maybe that’s coming in the future.

While I imagine a leading an armada of captains into battle, it’s time for — The Queue!

The Old Gods have left their mark on Azeroth, and especially on the Dragonflights that make up the main narrative focus of Dragonflight, World of Warcraft's appropriately named Dragon-themed expansion.

Music in video games is a subject that I absolutely love and could discuss for hours and hours -- and Blizzard games are, obviously, part of that equation as well.