A little more than four years ago–where does the time go?–Ghostcrawler posted a Dev Watercooler that would change tanking forever. In “Threat Level Midnight”, Ghostcrawler outlined what would come to be known as active mitigation, promising to “shift more tank mitigation to require active management.” We’ve been tanking under this new regime for the length of an entire olympiad now. It’s been tweaked and improved a few times from class to class as the expansions passed, and now the question is: was this new system an upgrade? Is tanking more fun now with active mitigation than it was before, and are there improvements that still could be made?

Every week Heroes of the Storm has some heroes you'd usually have to pay for that you can play for free in the free hero rotation, plus a number of heroes and skins on sale in the weekly sale.

Linkin Park has finally been revealed as the closing act of BlizzCon 2015.

Yeah, I’m listening to some Faith No More while I write this edition of The Queue.

What’s in it, Matt?

Questions, answers, all that kind of thing.

Submitter Bronwenne of the Queue on Nesingwary (US-A) writes, "Playing around with the Hallow's End Magic Broom, I found that if you're falling unmounted between the garrison and harbor, the point where you phase between sometimes kills you.

Overwatch beta pends incredibly soon -- just a few more days, in fact!

Join us tonight at 10PM CDT / 8PM PDT for a live recording of the Blizzard Watch podcast!

Content warning: A tiny bit of cursing and such.

When talking of the origin of the Tauren, we can look to their own myths, and then consider what they might mean.

You were always afraid this would happen.