Today's WoW maintenance is a little longer than usual, with two hours of maintenance for all Warcraft servers.

It’s Storm Watch time, and oh boy have we been getting hit by a big rainstorm. It’s been about a week of off-and-on rain, and all weekend, some steady, hard rain has left the city and surrounding areas in a rainfall/flooding warning. Sadly, no truly epic thunder and lightning, but maybe that’s coming next week.

While I go invest in some sandbags, and a new bathing suit, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

After finally catching up with the lost pet they were sent to chase, our mercenary crew only has only one problem: they're under attack by goose lizards (or possibly cobra chickens).

I hope you're ready for patch news, because just a few days after launching WoW patch 12.0.7, Blizzard announced WoW patch 12.1, which is already live on the PTR.

With the announcement of World of Warcraft patch 12.1.

We'll be headed off the coast of Zul'Aman to The Coiled Isle for Midnight's patch 12.1, and one of the tweaks to perennial content is how we will interact with World Bosses.

I don’t usually endorse advertising jingles for department stores, but Nanako is cute and must be protected at all costs. You go, Nanako. You sing about how great every day is at your local Junes!

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where the only reason I don’t say I’m looking forward to February 2027 is because I can’t remember off the top of my head when exactly each of the several other games I’m currently excited about will be released.

If you thought the purplest expansion couldn't get purpler, patch 12.0.7 of World of Warcraft proves us all wrong with yet another Void-themed event.

World of Warcraft Midnight Season 2 begins on August 18, 2026, one week after patch 12.1's August 11, 2026 launch.

Why did we come have to come back here? Didn’t we do enough of these otherworldly invasions during Legion? That we now have to come back and do them again, just fighting the Void instead of the Burning Legion?

Apparently not, because now we’re teleporting off to Void “showdowns” in those same places, but at least this one is cool (as in temperature) and will give us a break from the Midsummer Fire Festival (starting this weekend). But still, I could have skipped this. (But I won’t, because there’s new transmog.)

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we do our very best to answer your questions, but our best varies depending on the day. Let’s get to it.