It's the weekend, Watchers, and time for all of us to revel in games unplayed during the last week.

Nick took this great screenshot for his arachnophobia post yesterday, but forgot to add it to the post so I put in a picture from the Sennarth encounter instead. But this is such a great shot I had to use it somewhere, so here you go, my future kabourophobes. The Crab King awaits in judgment.

Let’s Queue.

Join as we discuss the problematic mob tagging, expensive rewards, and inconvenient boss timers of The War Within Radiant Echoes pre-patch event.

While there was a lot of discussion of what effect the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard merger might have on the games industry in the long term, there hadn't been a lot of visible effect outside of perhaps some effect on Diablo 4's launch.

With all of the class changes in the pre-patch, it might be time to play something new.

One of the new accessibility features released ahead of World of Warcraft's upcoming expansion, The War Within, is an arachnophobia mode that turns WoW enemies utilizing the spider NPC model into either the traditional crab model or the lobstrok models.

For the next three days -- August 1 through August 5 -- anybody can play WoW for free.

It’s funny, sometimes I try to be so nice, especially to the posters who need it, and then sometimes, well. I just can’t help it if I have such good advice, but this column is really popular, kinda like me, so you’ll need to wait.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we’ll probably get to answering, but we get like, so many questions, so.

Diablo 4 Season 4 ends on August 6, so you only have a few more days to finish the Season Journey.

With the August 26 launch date of The War Within right around the corner -- The Radiant Echoes pre-expansion event has gone live!