Blizzard Watch Podcast 321: The problem of power escalation
This week, Matt Rossi and Joe Perez discuss next Tuesday's launch of Burning Crusade Classic, the Overwatch 2 5v5 announcement, and the pros and cons of power creep as new content patches drop during an expansion.
It’s okay not to have the rules memorized when playing a TTRPG
I've been playing and Game Mastering various tabletop RPGs for a long time -- from old school Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder, to Wraith the Oblivion, Exalted, and Talislanta. I've run GURPS, Champions, Silver Age Sentinels, Unknown Armies, Conspiracy X, Call of Cthulhu, Earthdawn, Heavy Gear... it's a lot of games.
What if “Classic” versions of expansions had been around since the launch of WoW?
The Burning Crusade Classic is launching, but WoW Classic's version of original World of Warcraft is still available.
Nefarian takes on Ragnaros in the Showdown at Blackrock Mountain Tavern Brawl
As players prepare for the launch of The Burning Crusade Classic on June 1st, the Hearthstone team is bidding their own farewell to WoW Classic this week by featuring two of the iconic bosses from the expansion: Nefarian and Ragnaros.
Get ready for more adventures in the Barrens with Hearthstone’s Wailing Caverns mini-set
It's been a couple of months since Hearthstone's Forged in the Barrens expansion came out, and now the adventure continues with a mini-set of 35 new cards.
The Queue: Queue’s been blown to pieces
What can I say, I love a running gag.
Still playing Cyberpunk 2077. I have discovered the joys of a good baseball bat with bolts in.
How often do you PVP?
There was a time when I PVP’d almost constantly — at the end of Vanilla World of Warcraft, when I was trying to get High Warlord on my Tauren.
The World of Warcraft: New Flavors of Azeroth cookbook takes you to Flavortown and beyond
While we've been busy collecting Anima and restoring order to the Shadowlands, famed Pandaren chef Nomi has been on a culinary tour across Azeroth, Draenor, and the Shadowlands.
BlizzCon 2021 is officially canceled, but there will be another version of BlizzConline in 2022
There was no BlizzCon in 2020 due to the pandemic, but BlizzConline earlier this year was a sort of replacement for it.
The Queue: Queue’s out forever
Come on, I had to. I mean, I had to.
I am seriously starting to worry that I will be playing Cyberpunk 2077 for the rest of my life. It’s getting to AC Odyssey levels of investment, and that game nearly destroyed me. I need help. There isn’t even any DLC out for this thing yet! The sheer amount of side quests in this puts Fallout New Vegas to shame. Heck, it probably has more side quests than FNV, Fallout 3, and maybe even Fallout 4 combined.
It’s a lot.
