Hearthstone patch 29.6 will reintroduce Buddies to the Battlegrounds, and the heroes who still didn't have their buddies will get them this time.

Hello, dear readers! Didn’t expect to see me today? Well, that’s on you. Editors show up where and when they want, where and when they are least expected.

Let’s Queue.

With all the excitement of The War Within's release date announcement this past weekend it's easy to forget that WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria is still going and will continue right up until the week before TWW's release.

Dear Blizzard,

Why not add Skyreach as a choice on the same node as Rushing Reflexes at the bottom of the Monk talent tree?

I don’t mean the critical strike component, by the way — remove that. Make Skyreach an ability that’s all about dashing players to their next target, and nothing else. Rushing Reflexes, which is being added to the game, seems to serve the exact same purpose anyway — but based on the testing we’ve done so far, it gives you nowhere near the same sense of control about picking and approaching your intended target.

Sincerely,

a Monk player who finds Skyreach an extremely fun and useful ability, and sees no reason why it can’t be optional for those who enjoy it — rather than outright removed. (Trying to put the cat back in the bag feels awful for everyone involved: you, the cat, the person who’ll have to treat your infected scratches later, everyone.)

Summer Game Fest was this past weekend and there were a lot of games that caught our interest.

The War Within beta season continues with raid testing -- but given the nature of raids, this is on a brief, quite tight timetable.

It was a dark and stormy night in Minrathous...

Mercenary companions had become a staple in Diablo — these hirelings were missing from Diablo 4, but will be added to the game in the upcoming Vessel of Hatred expansion.

I know Kal’s written about this before in his Queues, but I just have to shout out the whole parallel buddy work thing in Spirit City. In conjunction with the pomodoro timer, I’m more productive than ever before!

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we have the answers. Yep, that’s right, so productive I don’t even have a witty rejoinder.

The community quickly honed in on one change in the latest War Within beta patch notes: an adjustment that will cause tanks and healers to rethink their trinket choices.