We’re over a month into summer vacation now. My children are feral, living on scavenged freeze pops and peanut butter toast. The entire house is covered in a thin layer of sand. Baby Shark has been on repeat so long I hear it even when it’s not on. We’re about 2 weeks away from turning into Thunderdome. In the distance, sirens.

This is The Queue and right now, it’s a brief respite. Too, too brief.

Update: Patch 8.2 now has an official release date!

Right now, it's looking like World of Warcraft patch 8.2 will be arriving within the next couple of weeks.

In WoW Classic, to get a random group together, you're going to have to rely on your salesmanship because you're probably going to need to stand in a capital city and spam General Chat while you accumulate your party.

In the short story What You Left Behind, Baptiste's past with Talon catches up to him, forcing him to question whether or not he's actually capable of doing good, while further expanding the lore of Overwatch.

Okay, so you're about to play WoW Classic and you want to know what the stuff on your gear means.

Anyone who is currently subscribed to WoW will have the opportunity to play the WoW Classic beta during the upcoming stress test.

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

I was pondering my extended and lengthy existence in World of Warcraft this week, and you know what’s missing? Mirrors. Even in the fanciest of fancy places, I cannot recall ever seeing a functioning mirror anywhere in Azeroth or beyond. Ever try standing in front of the mirrors in the barber shops? You won’t see anything reflected in them. They aren’t even in places like…I don’t know, tailoring shops or transmog shops where you’d expect to see a mirror. None of my characters have ever actually seen their own reflection.

You know what this means, right?

We’re all vampires.

We have a rumor that there's an Overwatch 2 in the works at Blizzard, although it sounds less like as direct sequel and more like a different kind of game entirely -- according to the rumors, people inside Blizzard have compared it to Left 4 Dead. Based on what I know bout L4D, that makes me wonder if Overwatch 2 is going to be a prequel, since in the Overwatch setting a good alternative to zombie hordes would be, well, robot hordes.

Before flying mounts and the many levels of Riding Skill that we have today in the current game, there was the old version of the mount system.