In getting ready for the holidays, I have decided that becoming a mountaintop hermit is my best options. Tell your friends. Wait, actually — don’t.

This is The Queue, the daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll answer, as long as you ask in a letter containing both a self-addressed stamped envelope and cookie-based bribery.

A game like World of Warcraft can easily dominate one's playing time, and a large part of its audience has it as their primary game -- or even as their only game.

One of the big reveals coming out of BlizzCon 2023 was the announcement of World of Warcraft Classic Season of Discovery, which launched globally at 1 PM pacific time on November 30.

I’m not going to re-litigate the whole why can’t I use an axe as a Druid, and therefore not use the shiny new legendary axe from Amirdrassil — we all already know how all of the Druids feel about that (bad). But when I got the ‘polearm‘ from Fyrakk in raid last night and looked at it for the first time I’m left thinking that’s about the most axe-like polearm I’ve ever seen! It looks just like a non-legendary version of Fyr’alath!

While I go talk to the weaponsmiths at Blizzard, it’s time — The Queue!

As December rapidly approaches we're now hitting a standard lull in the gaming calendar, with the selection of new releases probably the thinnest we'll see all year -- although there are a couple titles I'm planning to pick up next month.

Welcome, friends, to this, the blackest of Fridays. It’s that weird Friday that doesn’t feel like a Friday, because clearly Wednesday was Friday and Thursday was Saturday which would make today Sunday but actually it’s Friday and basically time and space has unraveled. Happy Friday! I think! Maybe! Let’s do some questions.

Join us as we discuss changes to the talent system and professions as well new accessibility options for those looking to return to Azeroth.

One of the strange things above moving to Canada and eventually becoming a Canadian citizen is that today, the last Thursday of November, is just a day.

In a way I’m glad — y’all know about the current unpleasantness — You have been great, but we still could use the help, if you are able to — and I’m glad I don’t have to go into a holiday with that on my mind, and I don’t have to go around coming up with things to be grateful for just now. But it still feels strange to go from Halloween to Christmas without a holiday to bracket them, I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to it.

But anyway, it is Thursday here, and that means I write the Queue.

The Amirdrassil Race to World First is almost over -- both Liquid and Echo have killed Tindral Sageswift to put themselves at Fyrakk's doorstep.

As many of you know we’ve run into a bit of issue lately with ad revenue (among other things). As part of it we’re looking into different ad providers, and a new one has just started — so if you see any major issues (autoplaying ads, for example) please let us know in the comments or on Discord. We ask that you are patient for the next few weeks as we suss out the new system and try a few different things. Thanks for all of your support!

Tomorrow may be a holiday in the US but today is a working day so let’s ask and answer some questions!