This week's maintenance is scheduled to last all day for Midnight realms as Blizzard rolls out WoW patch 12.0.1, which includes many class updates and additional UI improvements — primarily things we've already seen testing on the beta, just rolling to live a little before the Midnight launch.

So you're browsing the internet in search of a deck to play in Hearthstone, and you stumble upon a deck code.

Last week, somebody said that the way I abbreviated renovation to reno made them think of a different event entirely. So here are two tickets to the Reno gun show, just for you, half-remembered and definitely real commentator.

While I decide if I’m going to return to this joke for a third time next week, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

Keeping things tense and exciting in tabletop games without just resorting to throwing the players into a fight is a central part of our discussion today on Tavern Watch -- we're talking torches burning down in Shadowdark or Crows, using the spotlight like a TV show director to keep things tense in Monster of the Week, or the Chaos mechanic in Triangle Agency that makes every roll a balancing act.

It's Monday, so it's time to try to catch up on the last week in Blizzard games.

Blizzard, you had better add this absolute work of art — perhaps the best prop item your artists have ever conceived — to Player Housing as a decor option. That will be all. I will not be taking questions at this time.

…except I will be taking questions at this time because this is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where the Q stands for — you guessed it — Questions! And Answer them we shall, right after I stop writing this intro.

This week we're all about the WoW roadmap which came out last week, for both Retail and Classic eras.

Though Blizzard has given us a roadmap for World of Warcraft in 2026, it doesn't include anything about our new favorite feature, Player Housing (aka house transmog).

The PTR for Diablo 4 patch 2.6 is now live, and as usual it's scheduled to run for a brief week, until February 10 at 10am pacific (1pm eastern).

Just trust me on this. It’s very unpleasant. Just let me put it this way, I really feel for Azeroth right about now.