If you've been frustrated by the slow pace of gathering lumber in The War Within in order to craft player housing decor with your professions, then good news -- new achievements have been added to the Midnight beta that allow for mounted lumberjacking.

The prayers of the player base have finally been answered and Paladins have finally arrived as a new class in Diablo 4!

Since today is the twelfth day of Christmas, tonight is the twelfth night. I plan to celebrate by watching the new Great Performances version of the play, featuring Sandra Oh, Lupita Nyong’o, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Peter Dinklage as Malvolio.

We’ve had PBS Passport since 2022, and it’s well worth the price, even though our local has increased from $5 per month to $7 per month this year. And come on, Lupita and her actual brother as Viola and Sebastian? Amazing.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll answer but only if we can wear our yellow stockings and go cross-gartered while we do. And a paaartri-idge in a pear treeeee.

It's another speedy WoW maintenance this week, as all World of Warcraft servers scheduled to be offline for an hour this morning.

The first Monday of 2026 is already shaping up to be one heck of an example of its species, but instead of trudging your way into the day, might I recommend instead embodying the spicy attitude of a freshly examined -- yet adorable -- cheetah cub?

I haven’t seen y’all since last year! It’s been so long, I hope everybody has had a safe and happy time of it.

We’re just getting started on 2026, and this could be a good one! We’re gonna get Midnight, a new Diablo expansion, and they’ll for sure definitely 100% announce a return to full-time development for Heroes of the Storm — I just know it!

While I go and practice my Junkrat skillshots in Heroes, it’s time for our daily question and answer column, the Queue!

It's the beginning of one year and the end of the next here on Tavern Watch, and so we're both looking back with fond remembrance on the games we played this year (including the ones we played on Tavern Watch Plays, which you should check out!) and the ones due to come out next year.

It's been a quiet week at Blizzard Watch HQ as the winter holidays wind down and we work on winding up to face another long year.

Stay a while and listen! Get into a comfortable position, grab a beverage of your choice to sip, kick up your legs, and hold on to your seat: 2026 is here, and we’re in this together, for a whole year!

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we answer things and throw our old calendar in the bin because a brand-new calendar with different numbers in it has just been placed on our desk.

This week we're looking back at the events of 2025, with our special guest Phil Ulrich.