Ever since Blue Prince -- which was included in this week's games post -- came out yesterday I've been feeling a little feverish.

There have been various magical MacGuffins that we've pursued across Azeroth in the past two decades of World of Warcraft's story -- The Pillars of Creation, The Helm of Domination, The Scepter of the Shifting Sands -- and our current adventures in The War Within task us with traipsing across Khaz Algar in pursuit of Xal'atath and the powerful Dark Heart.

Somehow, we've managed to come to another Friday (it was just Monday I do not understand what happened), and while this week was a little on the slimmer side of large AAA game releases, let's talk games.

Actual conversation in our Discord channel:

Liz: Wednesday queues are so easy! You get questions based on all the early week news!

Kalcheus: Friday queues are easier! It’s the end of the week, everyone is excited for the weekend!

Liz: You have it so easy!

Kalcheus: No you have it easy!

Liz & Kalcheus: I wish I could trade queues with you for just one day!

But of course it’s not just one day, it’s permanent (until it’s not)! Red and I will still be alternating weeks, though. So be sure to ask Red plenty of questions next Thursday!

Anyway while I try to figure out how to navigate life as a gnome, let’s answer some questions!

Patch 11.1.5 for World of Warcraft was just announced as coming out April 22, so that leads the podcast this week -- even if it may seem fast to some of our hosts.

Season of Discovery Phase 8 will feature a brand new World of Warcraft Classic raid, the Scarlet Enclave is now live!

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Now, keep in mind, I’m playing Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader more than a year after it was released. And it certainly loses in the comparison of graphics and animated cutscenes, with W40kRT being a more stylized game with a much darker and more grim tone than  other Isometric CRPG’s (unless you’re Planescape Torment, in which case this could be said to be stealing your bit.)

Honestly, it’s not that this game is better than BG3, so much as it is to me more enjoyable to play than that game. Maybe it’s because you get to swing a giant chainsaw sword around and set things on fire with your mind while flirting with a completely deranged psyker who enjoys screaming people to death, I don’t know. I do know that the inventory system is not what I would call good.

This week's free Epic Games Store game is River City Girls, a fun little nostalgia-filled brawler.

The EU is taking action against games that push micorotransactions, and it may have a ripple affect that touches on microtransactions in games across the industry.

Moonshot Games, one of the Dreamhaven game development studios, is launching the first Community Preview playtest for their upcoming game, Wildgate, which will begin April 10 at 9AM pacific time and ending on April 14 at 5PM pacific time.