While the Legion alpha is live and the datamining is in full swing, very little is playable yet.

It begins! The alpha client is being delved by intrepid dataminers, each lowered down into the depths of the code in rickety buckets, armed with a pickaxe and a headlamp, so that they can chip away at obfuscation and return with gold nuggets of much anticipated information. This is easily one of the most exciting points in the expansion cycle because the possibilities seem so endless. So far the spell changes and talents have been revealed for Protection Paladins, though not yet the artifact weapon talents. Even without a deeper look at the preliminary benefits attached to our artifact sword and board, there is still a whole lode of information that we can pore over. Let’s jump right in and see what’s in store for us so far.

At BlizzCon last month, Blizzard announced that StarCraft 2 is going to roll out a number of stand alone Covert Ops Mission Packs, the first of which will focus on Nova.

Hearthstone's December card back theme is The Slammin' Shaman.

It's that time of the week again.

Funny true story — I had essentially finished this edition of the Queue when a glitch erased all my work.

Much pirate ghosting was heard.

So let’s try this again.

Submitter Semyon writes, "Yes, that's exactly how the traditional pandaren tea ceremony goes: under the rain, with an ancient sparkling pandaren teapot on the table, and a female pandaren smiling at you unnervously.

You know, out of all the big names and familiar faces and really cool stuff I'm excited about in Legion, I have to say the most obscure one I'm excited to see again is Jones.

A new set of World of Warcraft hotfixes for patch 6.2.3 have been released and posted to the official blog.

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