I love autumn, although I am admittedly more of an apple guy than a pumpkin guy. Still, there’s something about nature dying and imminent starvation during the winter months that just warms my soul like a mug of cider in front of a fire. Soon the leaves will be changing and the air will be crisp and cool and it’ll just be a grand old time for everyone! Well, except those for whom the next few months are technically spring, although I guess congrats to them on making it through the winter.

This week is the Tokyo Game Show and already one of my wishes came true with the new Professor Layton and the New World of Steam trailer. Sadly Nintendo remains mum on their plans for the Switch successor so it’s becoming quite unlikely we’ll hear anything about it this week.

While I patiently wait for my attempt at a reverse jinx to work, let’s answer some questions!

Join Matt and Joe as they explore the theory that Xal’atath may have began as a Titan construct, the surprisingly inclusive beginnings of the Scarlet Crusade, and the recent influence of the most terrible, evil, and loathsome Old God of them all, daily grinds— uh, Y’Shaarj.

The Hallowfall Arathi are major players in The War Within story so far, but who are they and how did their group end up deep in Azeroth's underground?

World of Warcraft and Trolli sour gummies have teamed up for a promotion where, by sending your receipt for any Trolli brand gummies, you can redeem for your very own Gummi Battlepet-- a cute little worm that fits in well with Azj-Kahet aesthetic.

One week in to the Race to World First for Nerub'ar Palace, Team Liquid has taken the World First kill on Silken Court and put in a few pulls on Queen Ansurek before calling it a day.

We’re rounding the corner on October. All I really want is to curl up with a book and some soup or baked pasta or chili, but it’s a high of over 90 today, with 81% humidity. Whatever happened to the crisp, windy, fall ambiance? I won’t even get greedy and ask for a thematic Halloween thunderstorm. As a completely basic millennial woman, this feels personal.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we’ll answer with a tall glass of ice water and a little mustache of sweat on our upper lip. Ugh.

The War Within servers have another extended maintenance this morning: NA servers are offline until 12pm pacific (or 3pm eastern), and just came back online.

Naz'jatar.

Welcome to the first World of Warcraft: The War Within Race to World First!

And Nexus-Princess Ky'veza is down: after multiple sub-1% pulls yesterday, Team Liquid killed Ky'veza after 304 pulls.