As is traditional in World of Warcraft, the pre-patch prior to The War Within expansion came with a limited-time event with gear and collectibles: Radiant Echoes.

In World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, we got used to accessing our Dragonriding — now Skyriding — talents from an easy-to-spot button on the minimap, where we also found our reputation panes for all of the expansion's factions.

With a new expansion comes some returning favorite bosses, now as tameable pets!

It's a busy week in Blizzard games — and in games in general.

Happy Friday, Watchers, and welcome to our pre-expansion edition of "what to play this weekend." Not all of us dove directly into World of Warcraft: The War Within when early access opened.

A new expansion means a new set of Pet Battle Master Trainers and a whole new set of battle pet achievements, and The War Within's slate includes Battle on Khaz Algar, Khaz Algar Safari, and a new set of Family Familiar achievements.

Rawr!

It’s almost a little rude Liz, bears say other things than rar and rawr. Like Fozzie, he tells jokes!

For example, what do you call a cow that just gave birth?

Decalfinnated!

While I give you a moment to recover from your side-splitting laughter, it’s time for — The Queue!

Join us as we discuss the launch of The War Within early access, the new Alleria animated short, the end of our beloved WoW: Remix (for now), the mercenaries coming to Diablo 4, and the release date of Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

Every new season of Hearthstone Battlegrounds brings us a ton of new hero skins, and the beach-themed season 8 is no exception -- but as much as we applaud the imagination, some of these skins are a little bit unbelievable.

By the time you read this, people will have already started leveling in The War Within, there will probably be multiple people at level 80 already.