Character death has been a core mechanic in video games since their inception.

The first World of Warcraft Trading Post of 2025 has arrived!

2025 has arrived and while I’m not one to eschew resolutions for personal improvement (see below for more specific answers), I feel like sometimes the focus on “New Year, New Me” detracts from current version of you. While most of us have aspects of ourselves that we’d love to change or improve, suggesting a radical transformation assumes there’s not a lot already worthwhile in a person and I don’t think that’s true at all. So yes, make plans to exercise more or be more attentive to family/friends or to finish watching Season 2 of Arcane (we’re up to Episode 8!) but don’t forget to take the time to reflect on what’s already good and beautiful about yourself. It may be hard to see, but I’m sure it’s there.

While we all pledge to make 2025 the best year so far, let’s start it off well by answering some questions!

Join us as we discuss an alternate universe for the Diablo franchise where Prince Aidan never embedded the soul stone into his head to become the vessel for Diablo at the end of the first game.

Solving puzzles is one of those features that's nearly always been at the core of video games.

That’s one more in the books. Here’s to one more.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we’ll doggedly answer day after day.

This week's WoW maintenance should be short and sweet: the WoW servers are scheduled to be offline from 7am - 8am pacific time.

2024 was a difficult year in our household for many reasons.

As the Blizzard Watch staff mused on their favorite games of 2024, they also looked ahead to the games they're most looking forward to in 2025.

I’m happy to report that this is the five-year anniversary of my taking over the Queue!

It’s a little hard to believe that it’s been so long already. It feels like just yesterday that I wrote my first one. In theory, then I was just taking over briefly while Anne worked as a temporary Blizzard Historian. Of course, she’s amazing, and that turned into a full-time position — so I got stuck the privilege of writing this Queue permanently!

It’s hard to believe how many Queues I’ve written, and I haven’t gone back through and counted each of them, but roughly that’s 260 Queues! Just a mind-boggling amount of words and exclamation points!

Looking back at the first one I did, I’ve come a long way. There was an Earworm for Anna, but it hadn’t turned into a regular thing yet. You also hadn’t started to get a weekly picture of Bacardi, and since there are only 89 pictures of him in the media library, that tradition is coming up on its two-year anniversary. Who knows what my Queues will look like at my ten-year anniversary!

While I go and bother Liz about my five-year sword, it’s time for — The Queue!