We start off the show this week talking about WoW Classic, namely that Burning Crusade Anniversary realms were announced and are coming in January, perhaps concurrentish with the release of Midnight.

With Player Housing just around the corner — early access launches with patch 11.2.7 on December 2 — players are stocking up on materials across several expansions to prepare to decorate their perfect home.

As we enter this stretch of the year, a season when sanity and a quick little escape are hard to come by, I'm going to recommend you pre-emptively pick up Cloud Gardens.

Because it took the anti-capitalist message of the first game and not only magnified it, but also threw in anti-colonialism, totalitarian regimes, and how the good intentions of someone do not serve to protect people from people who will use their creations with bad intentions. And I’m about half way through the game.

I honestly don’t know where this game will end up in the whole ‘game of the year’ list I’m composing in my head f0r no good reason, but it’s already ahead of Expedition 33.

The Epic Games Store is giving away two games this week.

Arator the Redeemer son of Alleria Windrunner and High Exarch Turalyon has been an occasional presence in the narrative of World of Warcraft until now but with Midnight he'll be moving to the forefront, stepping out from the light and the shadow cast by his famous parents to forge his own story.

One of the headline features of World of Warcraft: Midnight will be Player Housing, a feature that has been requested since release 20 plus years ago.

Blizzard added transmog to the Midnight beta this week, and I’ll tell you all more about it when I am not swinging wildly between incandescent rage and crushing disappointment. Transmog is dead (to me), long live transmog.

Let’s Queue.

This week's Hearthstone Tavern Brawl focuses on a specific card: Zephrys the Great, a Legendary minion with an interesting Battlecry.

As we make our way toward Midnight, Joe and Matt are making sure we know what we need to before the expansion launches.