This week's WoW maintenance should be short and sweet: the WoW servers are scheduled to be offline from 7am - 8am pacific time.

2024 was a difficult year in our household for many reasons.

As the Blizzard Watch staff mused on their favorite games of 2024, they also looked ahead to the games they're most looking forward to in 2025.

I’m happy to report that this is the five-year anniversary of my taking over the Queue!

It’s a little hard to believe that it’s been so long already. It feels like just yesterday that I wrote my first one. In theory, then I was just taking over briefly while Anne worked as a temporary Blizzard Historian. Of course, she’s amazing, and that turned into a full-time position — so I got stuck the privilege of writing this Queue permanently!

It’s hard to believe how many Queues I’ve written, and I haven’t gone back through and counted each of them, but roughly that’s 260 Queues! Just a mind-boggling amount of words and exclamation points!

Looking back at the first one I did, I’ve come a long way. There was an Earworm for Anna, but it hadn’t turned into a regular thing yet. You also hadn’t started to get a weekly picture of Bacardi, and since there are only 89 pictures of him in the media library, that tradition is coming up on its two-year anniversary. Who knows what my Queues will look like at my ten-year anniversary!

While I go and bother Liz about my five-year sword, it’s time for — The Queue!

There's a tabletop game for everyone, even those of us who want to combine regency romance with sentai superhero teams.

There are few feelings more fulfilling in gaming than finishing a long series of quests or a particularly difficult challenge and receiving a fantastic reward, be it a powerful new weapon or an impressive means of transportation or even just some snazzy new threads.

This is the week where we're all generally addled and not sure which day it is, and we're simultaneously full of holiday cheer but also cheese and perhaps a cookie or eight.

Yeah, that’s a picture of Moo Deng. I don’t need a reason.

Join us as we discuss the controversial upcoming rework of Marksmanship Hunters that removes pets, the Goblin/casino/mecha T-Rex themed preview of WoW patch 11.1 coming early next year, the new updates to this year’s Winter Veil event, and the discovery of garden gnome cosmetics for when you need to be deadly, yet whimsical.

Winter Veil's boss fight against the Abominable Greench is a little bit of an anomaly as it's not a fight you can queue for -- instead players need to trek out to the Alterac Valley section of Hillsbrad Foothills to rescue Metzen the Reindeer and reclaim the stolen treats.