The first, and only time we saw new race and class combinations added to the game was all the way back in Cataclysm, when goblins and worgen were added to the game and bolstered with additional new combinations of familiar races, including tauren paladins and priests.

If you're excited about how heirlooms are going to work in patch 6.1, one question may have remained: just how are the various 90 to 100 heirloom weapons we received for defeating Garrosh Hellscream before Warlords of Draenor going to work with the new system? Well, now we know.

A new patch was announced today for Heroes Of The Storm closed beta. Most notably, the Lost Vikings Hero is now available to play. Erik, Olaf & Baleog all have unique moves, independent respawn timers, and can move on their own. Olaf is a bit of a tank with a bit of healing up his sleeve. Erik deals ranged damage and moves faster than the others. Baleog has an AOE. It's going to be a lot of fun to see exactly how this new, unique Hero plays.

If you're not Twitter savvy, or just want to know what the answers are to a variety of questions without having to follow anyone, this forum thread from CM Crithto is right up your alley -- a collection of questions tweeted at the @WarcraftDevs Twitter account and the answers therein.

This week we're back to a more normal show, covering the latest news and reader email. We might get off track a bit too and talk about Lost Vikings and Blackthorn and Atari. Sidenote: Pitfall was an original Activision game, and we cover "Blizzard" aka "Activision Blizzard" games, so we're thinking of having a Pitfall column now. Y/N? You decide.

Senior Technical Game Designer Wyatt Cheng and Don Vu, Associate Game Designer are joined by Game Designer Travis Day on the Diablo Twitch stream on Tuesday, February 10 at 11:00am Pacific to look back at Season 1 and look ahead to future Seasons.

Blizzard has put out a number of fan-favorite titles over the years, particularly in the Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft universes — though most of you are probably here, reading this, because of a fondness for World of Warcraft. But there's more to Blizzard than just one game, or even the few franchises we've mentioned here.

Today will mark the one week anniversary of the existence of Blizzard Watch. What better day than Battle.net maintenance day to give a recap of our content so far?

A new set of hotfixes have been released on the official blog -- today's hotfixes include a whole host of  adjustments to various encounters in the new Blackrock Foundry raid, as well as a couple of bug fixes around the world and for the Love is in the Air holiday event.