No, seriously: over the past few months we've seen a lot of people wondering who the heck this elf lady is — people don't seem to recognize her as Alleria Windrunner.

Next Monday I complete my fiftieth trip around the sun. This now makes me eligible to use the local senior center or to join the AARP. I of course will do neither of these things (unless the senior center offers a mountain dulcimer course again); to quote the late great Jimmy Buffett a second time this intro: I’m growing older but not up.

I keep going back and forth as to whether I should consider it a big deal; heck knows society and party stores want me to, but I also know they do so out of glee that I’m “over the hill” — but I like to think I’m still climbing. Still, it’d be weird to let it pass by with no comment or introspection, so I’m just going to motivate myself with League of Legends songs and Dylan Thomas poems.

While I do everything I can to rage against the dying of the light, let’s answer some questions!

Join us as we explore how the Scarred, a corrupted Earthen race in Khaz Algar of The War Within, may be connected to the twisted Dark Iron Dwarves of Grim Batol.

Every expansion in World of Warcraft brings with it tasty new Cooking recipes, from recipes so good they became actual real-life recipes to the nearly-inedible foods of Shadowlands (I guess Brokers didn't know that most of us don't like Pickled Meat Smoothies and Butterscotch Marinated Ribs). The War Within also includes a large variety of new foods (including food that lasts through death!), many of which have a fun twist on the fact that you're spending a lot of time in cave systems.

The end of WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria is extremely nigh: August 19th is just around the corner, after all.

If you're looking to gear up your Warband with the Radiant Echoes event, you might be wondering exactly how many Residual Memories you'll need.

Cataclysm Classic Phase 2 is officially live!

While I understand I was gone for two weeks I’m still amazed by the sheer number of events I missed while I was on vacation. I have over 500 unread emails in my marketing/promotional inbox alone, and every single communique from the upcoming school year is in triplicate, as the apps they insist on using also send out an email blast for each message, plus a digest. And that’s before I get into the good stuff I need to interact with. Well, I always was a jump right in kind of girl. Here’s hoping I have enough RAM for the number of chrome tabs I’m about to open.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and hopefully they aren’t caught in the filter as I start deleting stuff (but you get it, right?).

The War Within is less than a month away, and the Radiant Echoes pre-patch event offers a great chance for catch-up gear.

WoW maintenance today is a bit longer than usual, but it shouldn't be as bad as last week's mega-maintenance, when servers were down most of the day for the rollout of patch 11.0.1.