Last week, former Blizzard co-founder and current CEO of Dreamhaven Studios, Mike Morhaime, announced that the company laid off an undisclosed number of staff from the fledgling studio and even though an exact number was not mentioned, Morhaime confirmed the publishing branch of the company was most affected.

Just how is Amazon going to adapt Mass Effect for TV? I don’t know, and I’m afraid to ask.

But while I’m being anxious about that, let’s answer some questions, shall we? Starting with my favorite video game.

Most people think of the 80s as a simple time full of big hair and scrunchies, but those of us who were into Dungeons and Dragons will remember the Satanic Panic, a period of time when parents were terrified that every piece of media was making their children evil.

We make our love of cute things pretty clear here on Blizzard Watch, I think, so our love for the World of Warcraft battle pets from the Ghosts of K'aresh patch should come as no surprise.

I’ve been playing a lot of Drop Dutchy this week. It’s a very pick-up-put-down puzzler. It takes the lines and blocks of Tetris — with a far slower, more relaxed drop speed — but adds an additional element of having the bricks and lines give you resources which can be used strategically to improve various other parts of gameplay. Like if you stack several Wood pieces together, your Rangers will get more units, and after the round you can use the Wood you collected from making lines to improve your Ranger for later rounds. But, if your (computer) opponent also has a Ranger, watch out.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we supply the answers. Get it? Supply? Because wood and grain and stuff?

Another short maintenance is on the schedule for World of Warcraft servers this week, with one hour downtime planned for all WoW and WoW Classic realms.

Friends, I hope you're picturing the absolute town-crier vibe of this announcement.

I went to a local art vendor thing this weekend, and this was the standout piece of the whole thing. Look at this cat, it’s so close to being Bacardi, it’s uncanny! This is a large piece too, roughly the size of a 75″ television. A true statement piece to really tie any room together.

I’d love to have a picture of me holding Bacardi up beside it to show that it was hanging in my home now. Unfortunately, it was also 2,750 Canadian dollars. As I don’t have 2,750 Canadian dollars currently set aside for cat paintings, I didn’t buy it. Liz also seemed hesitant to gift me the money as an advance on my next several years of Queues… So alas, I am left without a giant cat to hang upon my wall.

While I go and put together a team of renowned art thieves for a totally unrelated job, it’s time for — The Queue!

It's time for a new adventure with our Tavern Watch crew as we dive into Outgunned Adventure (and, yes, we're going to be using the word adventure a whole lot here).

You can talk about Mythic Raiding and Rated Arena all you want, but the real end game of World of Warcraft is a perfect transmog look -- although we all have very different opinions on what matters when it comes to Azerothian fashion.