So you decided you like having an eyeball on your forehead.

Overwatch's annual Lunar New Year event is live now, and runs from January 16 through February 5.  The seasonal, in-game event celebrates the Chinese New Year -- this year being the Year of the Rat.

I read all the tie in novels. I watch all the movies and cinematics. I pick up all the Chronicles, and I not only owned World of Warcraft The Roleplaying Game (it is, in fact, on a shelf in my office right now) but I bought Warcraft The Roleplaying Game back in 2003, a year before World of Warcraft even existed. I’m the guy who told everyone to buy Wolfheart and Stormrage. I own the Warcraft movie.

So when I say that I believe that you should be able to get all the lore you need to understand World of Warcraft by playing it, I’m speaking as someone who has made a concerted effort to pursue lore sources outside of that game. Absolutely none of that should be necessary. Blizzard has made strides, but they aren’t there yet, and I think they really need to be.

Anyway, it’s the Queue. I miss talking about prehistoric animals.

There is a lot to do in World of Warcraft.

I often wonder about how other people play World of Warcraft.

This isn't what I'd call the best way to gear up in patch 8.3, but it covers the absolute easiest path to decent gear once next week rolls around and the patch drops.

As the servers came up for World of Warcraft's latest -- and apparently final -- major patch of Battle for Azeroth, two new cinematics surfaced to set the stage.

Diablo 3's Challenge Rifts are not for the faint of heart.

If you liked the Mage Tower in Legion, then World of Warcraft patch 8.3's Horrific Visions is content that is designed to appeal to you -- it's content you can do solo or in a small group (up to five players) and it's designed to start off with ramping difficulty that will eventually force you out until you get better at the encounters and better geared to resist the sanity draining mechanic of the Vision.

With the recent introduction of WoW's latest Allied Races -- the Mechagnomes and the Vulpera -- you might find yourself considering paying for a race change.