Sure, the challenge of heroics can be fun — and challenge modes, in particular, are a great way to push your abilities. But running heroic dungeons for gear? It's very hard to recommend.

A new set of hotfixes have gone out this evening, and a new set of notes have been released. These hotfixes are in addition to the new patch build that was released earlier today, and include several bug fixes and garrison adjustments as well as a few tweaks to old dungeons and a few items.

The Hearthstone ESL Legendary Series season 1 was held last month and culminated into an exciting finals finish last weekend. The stakes? It starts with a $20000 prize pool.

When the opening came, she took it, becoming the latest Warlord of the Burning Blade and immediately setting to work to try and seal her place as the best and the brightest of the Iron Horde. And it worked, to a degree -- Azuka Bladefury may have had to prove her worth in a collection of more notable names like Blackhand or Kargath Bladefist, but she did so with swift and unerring efficiency.

A small new build was released this afternoon that may result in some realms being listed as incompatible. If this is the case for you, you'll want to shut down World of Warcraft and the Battle.net launcher and restart them to download and apply the patch.

The Cindermane Charger -- a mount that looks suspiciously like a recolored Hearthsteed with extra particle effects -- has been added to the Recruit-a-Friend reward pool for World of Warcraft today.

Guys, I seriously have zero idea what’s going on with this dress thing or why you keep asking me on twitter (@matthewwrossi if you’re curious) about what color it is. I play a warrior. I don’t wear dresses. As far as I’m concerned, they’re all a trick of GlaDOS.

"I recruited a follower at the Lunarfall Inn yesterday, and it turned out to be my long-lost twin!" writes submitter Aelussa of Cenarion Circle (US-A).

I have to admit, one of the first things I did when logging in for patch 6.1 was work on putting my very own B.O.O.M.

A new batch of hotfixes have been released for patch 6.1 today, including a whole host of adjustments for nearly every class, bug fixes, achievements adjustments and much more.